Age Concern Heathfield & District
Age Concern Heathfield and District has recently become an incorporated Charity and our Charity number is 1205545.
We have a Chairman and Board of Trustees who meet regularly to ensure the efficient running of the service, with our minibus and medical car services, as well as our Men’s Shed, run entirely by volunteers.
Click on the buttons below or click through the pages to learn more about us and the services we offer!
Autumn Trips Programme
Click on the image to read or download our new Autumn/Winter programme!
Our outings have proved to be so popular that many of our trips have been hugely oversubscribed; so, to ensure that everyone has received the information before we start taking requests, you will see that bookings open for our Autumn/Winter trips on Monday 2nd September,
We try our best to be fair and offer everyone the chance to go on our trips, so places are not simply allocated on a first come, first served basis. When a trip is fully booked we will add names to a reserve list and offer places if anyone cancels, or, if there are enough names, we will endeavour to put on an extra bus. Please be aware: we cannot guarantee that extra buses will run on the original date.
Meanwhile, our thanks, as ever, go to all our wonderful volunteer drivers and minibus escorts who give up their time to ensure these trips can take place – I hope you all enjoy the outings as much as we do!
If you have any suggestions for places we could visit in our next programme of trips, we’d love to hear from you!
To book a place, please call: 01435 866960
Bookings Open 2nd September 2019!
Age Concern Heathfield & District Needs You!
Do you have a few hours to spare?
Would you like to do something rewarding?
With more and more clients using our services, we are looking for new recruits to join us, especially volunteer drivers to join our Medical Car Service Team, using their own car to take clients to doctors, dentists and hospital appointments – drivers can claim 45p per mile in expenses to cover the journeys.
If you have a few hours to spare each week – or even each month – then we would love to hear from you.
For more information please call Natasha Read on 07518 917380 or email:
Age UK East Sussex Information and Advice Outreach Vehicle
Our partners at Age UK East Sussex are coming to Heathfield with their Information and Advice Outreach Vehicle on:
Friday 16th August
10.30am – 3.30pm
Recreation Ground, Sheepsetting Lane
They can offer advice on:
- Benefit checks
- Pension credit
- Attendance allowance
- Housing issues
- Finding support at home
- Choosing a place in a residential care home
- Health and social care
- Leisure and social activities
- Family and personal matters
- Filling in forms
- Accessing local services
- Utility bill queries
- Any other issues that affect older people
If you would like to know more about the Age UK East Sussex Information and Advice Outreach Service please call them on Tel: 01273 476704
Knitting Project
Can you help knit or crochet blankets or twiddle muffs?
Join our group of enthusiastic knitters and crocheters who keep busy all year round making blankets which we distribute locally to those in need during the winter months.
In addition, we also make twiddle muffs which not only keep your hands warm, but are also are very soothing to anyone who fidgets with their hands.
If you would like to take part in our knitting project, please phone (01435) 866960 or email
Heathfield Men’s Shed
The Heathfield & District Men’s Shed (HMS) is the latest venture linked with Age Concern Heathfield & and is open to men over 60 in the TN21 postcode.
The Shed activity fits in nicely with our aim to support those over 60 years of age in the TN21 area & goes hand in hand with our existing facilities.
There seemed to be a gap in support activity for men in particular over the age of 60 and, after after some initial research it was seen that there was indeed a demand. Read more …
Photo Gallery…
Our volunteer minibus drivers and escorts have taken passengers to a number of social and cultural events, including: Lunch Clubs in Heathfield and Punnetts Town; Day Centres in Heathfield; the ‘Airbourne’ Air Show in Eastbourne, viewed from Beachy Head; a cinema trip to Hailsham; a concert at the Eastbourne Bandstand; a boat trip on Bewl Water; a visit to the Llama Park in the Ashdown Forest; greyhound racing in Brighton; Raystede Animal Rescue Centre, Ringmer; pub lunches in Cross-in-Hand, Eastbourne, Pevensey Bay, Chiddingly and Brighton; shopping trips to Heathfield, Eastbourne, Brighton and Hastings and visits to garden centres in Heathfield and Eastbourne – to name but a few!
Men’s Shed
Workshop Build
Lockdown Colouring Sheets
Punnetts Town Country Lunches
Working Breakfast for Volunteers
Visit to Airbourne 2017
Heffle Court Music Session
Heathfield Shopping Trip
Age Concern Heathfield Volunteers’ Lunch
Age Concern Heathfield Minibuses
Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2022
Exec Team at Work
