St Ivel Sprinter - 30 Years on the Road

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30 Years on the Road

The Ivel Sprinter Community bus has been serving our community for more than thirty years, carrying out both regular service routes and hire to clubs, charities and local schools, in and around Biggleswade, Sandy, Tempsford, St Neots, Langford, Potton, Bedford, Roxton and Sutton. This sterling work has been carried out by a team of voluntary drivers over all those years ( both men and ladies) two of the founder members still drive the bus. The volunteers not only drive the bus, they manage it, raise funds to keep it running and renewed when necessary, they care for it and ensure that all the legalities are in order but most of all they enjoy themselves serving the community and joining in with fun days out and just being bus drivers! None have yet figured out how to become volunteer train drivers! The majority of drivers are retired and from all walks of life from lady home delivery drivers (still working) to pathologists (still alive!). Currently there are 28 of them, although their numbers are falling as so many reach their mid 70’s, so new recruits are always welcome, as the saying goes, many hands make light (the bus) work. Visit their website for more information at www.ivelsprinter.org.uk

Come and join them! You can give as much or as little time as you like, we just ask for one drive per month minimum.

For a test drive, email hire.manager@ivelsprinter.org.uk or call Terry on 07534 391991 or Graham on 07748 088493