Ian Fleming, Scarinish, receives the first of the Cùram Meals on Wheels with volunteer driver Reverend Alan Millar.
TIREE Meals on Wheels has been saved – for at least the next six months.
Island care organisation Cùram Thiriodh, which already runs a lunch club, a carers’ service and exercise classes, has come to the rescue. Cùram Thiriodh began negotiations with Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership to keep the service going after the Royal Voluntary Service announced it was withdrawing it nationally. The last of the RVS-run Meals on Wheels were served on Tiree and Oban on Friday March 23. But an agreement to run it as a six-month pilot project on Tiree means all the paperwork and backroom organisation will be done on the island with the clients, the meals, the prices and the volunteers staying the same.