Travel tokens scheme

In addition to the national bus pass scheme, eligible residents of Warwick district are able to apply for travel tokens from late August 2009.

Travel tokens may be used to travel on a train, by taxi or by bus and National Express Coaches. Together with the free national bus pass, tokens will enable elderly and disabled rural residents, who may not have easy access to bus services, to have improved access to transport. The tokens are also available for disabled urban residents to help improve their access to transport.

Residents will be able to collect their annual allocation of travel tokens at any of the Council’s offices in Kenilworth, Leamington Spa, Warwick, Lillington or Whitnash. There will be an annual fee of £5, payable when the travel tokens are collected.

Travel tokens eligibility for the disabled

To qualify for travel tokens you must be a permanent resident of the district and be disabled in one of the following ways:

blind or partially sighted
profoundly or severely deaf
without speech
disability or injury which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on ability to walk
without arms or legs or have long-term loss of the use of both arms
learning disability
refused a driving licence on medical grounds.

Definitions of disability used by the Council to decide eligibility are those set out in the Transport Act 2000.
If the above criteria are met you are entitled to an annual allowance of £25 of tokens. However, if you reside in one of the following parishes you will be eligible to an award of £50:

Ashow
Bushwood
Beausale
Eathorpe
Haseley
Honiley
Hunningham
Offchurch
Old Milverton
Rowington
Wappenbury
Wroxall

Travel tokens eligibility for the elderly

To qualify for travel tokens on the grounds of age, you must be 60 or over and be a resident of one of the parishes listed below:

If you live in one of the parishes below you will be able to apply for £50 of Travel Tokens	If you live in one of the parishes below you will be able to apply for £25 of Travel Tokens
Ashow	Baginton
Bushwood	Baddesley Clinton
Beausale	Bishops Tachbrook
Blackdown	Bubbenhall
Eathorpe	Budbrooke
Haseley	Barford
Honiley	Hatton
Hunningham	Lapworth
Offchurch	Leek Wooton
Old Milverton	Norton Lindsey
Rowington	Sherbourne
Wappenbury	Shrewley
Wroxall	Stoneleigh
	Wasperton
	Weston under Werherley