The Residents’ Association run a number of regular shopping trips for members to local supermarkets and to Havant. The service is door to door making it easier for those people who are less mobile and gives more than adequate time for people to do their shopping. Each trip allows at least an hour at the shops to ensure you have plenty of time to get what you need. What is on offer are;
Swimming
We run a trip to the Leisure Centre at Felpham on Monday’s to go swimming. These trips will run on the following dates:
Dates for 2024 and 2025:
December 2, 9, 16
January 6, 13, 20, 27
February 3, 10, 24
Bognor Regis shops and Morrisons
We go to Bognor town centre and Morrisons every Tuesday at 9:00am. Unfortunately the bus has to stop in Morrisons car park, so you must be able to walk from the car park to the entrance of Morrisons, as well as walk round the store.
Dates for 2024 and 2025:
December 3, 10, 17
January 7, 14, 21, 28
February 4, 11, 18., 25
Marks and Spencer’s at Portfield, Chichester
Every four weeks we will run one bus at 9:00 am to go to M&S at the Portfield Retail Park in Chichester on a Wednesday. This is a M&S food hall.
Other shops that can be visited nearby include Dunelm, Hobbycraft, Currys, Homesense, John Lewis and nearby are the Range & Sainsburys.
Dates for 2024 and 2025:
December 18
January 22
February 26
The Shripney Line – Aldi, Lidl, Food Warehouse and Matalan
The bus will run on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month when the minibus is not being used to take people to the Coffee Mornings. Pick-ups will be at 9.00am and if there is sufficient demand, a second pick up at around 10.00am will be added. Please note that only you can only visit one of the drop off locations per trip. Advise John of your preference at the time of booking.
Dates for 2024 and 2025:
December 5, 19
January 2, 16
February 6, 2
Coffee mornings
Held on the 2nd and 4th Thursday mornings of each month. Please see the Activities for more details.
Dates for 2024 and 2025:
December 12
January 9, 23
February 13, 27
Tesco in Bognor Regis
We run two trips to the Tesco store every Friday. The first pick-ups start at 9:00am and the second start at approximately 10:00am.
Dates for 2024 and 2025:
December 6, 13, 20
January 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
February 7, 14, 21, 28
Out of area shopping
In 2024, we will be again visiting Havant, Midhurst, Gunwharf, Petersfield and Whiteley Shopping Village. Please see the Minibus Trips page in Outings for the dates.
These trips are very popular, so please book early. We maximise the number of people on each trip but you may have to go on a waiting list if there aren’t enough spaces available. Typically we will call wait-listed people around 6.00pm the previous day if spaces come free.
In order to help with the costs of running the service we ask for a donation of £2.50 per person for all trips.
To reserve a place on one of these trips or for more information,
please contact John on 268768 (weekdays between 9am and 5pm)
Please note that to be able to use the minibus, you must be a member of PDRA,
live within the Association’s boundary and pre-book your trip.
THEATRE BUS
The Theatre Bus, using your PDRA Minibus will be operating over the next few months to allow FREE door to door travel for our members to visit Chichester Festival Theatre for certain shows.
If you wish to use the service you MUST book your ticket directly with the theatre stating that you would like to reserve a seat on the Pagham minibus.
We are unable to book the minibus for you.
Dates and shows available in 2025 are:
Saturday 25th January – Summer 1954 – Evening
Thursday 30th January – A Man for All Seasons – Matinee
Wednesday 5th February – Six – 6.00pm
Thursday 27th February – The Girl on the Train – Matinee
Contact the CFT box office on 01243 781312