Thames-Coromandel
Tairua Care and Friendship Club Inc.
| Contact person | Phone | Physical address | |
| Marnie Goodman | 021 137 5688 | goodparker29@gmail.com | C/- 20 Windsor Drive Tairua |
Description of services
- We provide transport to and from hospitals and medical appoints, community groups to shows and other recreational trips.
- We currently run 2 vechicles - a 7 seater and a 10 seater with a wheelchair hoist.
Area covered
- We service Tairua, Pauanui and surrounding districts.
- We pick up and drop you of at your place of residence.
Additional services
- We also provide a community 2 course luncheon cooked by our willing volunteers.
- We are a community based Club and we are all volunteers.
Coromandel Independent Living Trust
| Phone | Physical address | |
| 07 866 8358 | resourcecentre@cilt.org.nz | Resource Centre 45 Tiki Road Coromandel Township |
Description of services
- Community Transport Services - enquiries 07 866 8358
- Funded by Waikato District Health Board to provide assistance for holders of current Community Service Cards to attend hospital appointments in Thames and Waikato.
- Volunteer drivers also transport patients who are unable to drive.
- Mobility Van - CILT Thursday bookings - 07 866 8358
- This Van transports locals to and from their homes for a weekly shopping trip to Thames on Thursdays leaving Coromandel at 9am and departing from Pak 'n' Save in Thames at 2pm.
- Bookings are essential there is a suggested koha of $12 return and $6 one way.
- 9 seats are available, and it also caters for wheelchairs and mobility scooters.
- The Van is owned by the Coromandel Community Services Trust. CILT organises all of the bookings and the drivers are volunteers.
Area covered
- Upper Coromandel Peninsula, Colville, Port Charles, Papa Aroha, Koputauaki, Kennedy Bay, Whangapoua and Manaia.
Additional services
- The Coromandel Resource Centre is a busy 'one stop shop' for residents in the heart of Coromandel Town and upper region of the Coromandel Peninsula, providing information on health and disability services, funding to enable people to attend hospital appointments in Thames and Hamilton and rooms for agencies not located in the area to hold regular clinics.
Whitianga Community Services Trust
| Contact person | Phone | Physical address | |
| Chrissy Roe | 07 866 4476 | reception@wcst.org.nz | 2 Cook Drive Whitianga |
Description of services
- Volunteer drivers for hospital appointments to Thames & Waikato.
Area covered
- Greater Mercury Bay area, includes Cooks Beach, Hahei, Coroglen, Whitianga, Simpsons Beach & Kuaotunu.
Eastern Coromandel Community Services Trust
| Contact person | Phone | Physical address | |
| Renee Wallis Natalie Boyd |
07 865 7065 | info@communityservices.org.nz | 505 Port Road Whangamata |
Description of services
- Medical drives for hospital appointments.
Area covered
- Whangamata, Whiritoa, Tairua, Hikuai, Pauanui.
Additional services
- Eastern Coromandel Community Services offer a wide range of services, including counselling, social work, whānau support, financial mentoring, budgeting services, community classes, community van trips and hire.
St John Community Health Shuttles (Thames, Paeroa, Waihi and Whangamata)
| Contact person | Phone | Physical address |
| Tricia Dawson - Thames/Paeroa Natalie James - Waihi Lyn Bryant - Whangamata |
0800 934 287 Ext 2 - Thames/Paeroa 07 863 8142 - Waihi 07 865 9011 Ext 1 - Whangamata |
1102 Queen Street Thames 3540 |
Description of services
- This vehicle is a 'door to door' service which picks up dialysis patients starting from Thames around 6am on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday to take them to Waikato Hospital for treatment.
- It returns in the afternoon, leaving hospital around 1:30pm.
- It may have capacity to take other passengers. Please note there is no hoist in this vehicle.
Area covered
- Thames and across the Hauraki plains.
Other
- There is also a St John Thames shuttle which should be called in the first instance on 0800 934 287 Ext 2.