We are a community minibus service
We help reduce social isolation and promote independence by providing a door to door minibus based community transport service in rural West Sussex.
Operating since 1974, we provide transport for shopping trips, outings, lunch club trips and some sightseeing excursions.
We offer this service to anyone in our community – from young to those in advanced years and less mobile, including those living in isolated areas where there is not an adequate public transport service.
We also offer our minibuses for use by local community groups.
We’re based around West Sussex villages
We operate 10 minibuses organised around villages in West Sussex including Ashington, Billingshurst, Petworth, Pulborough, Steyning, Storrington, Wisborough Green and villages around Barnham. You will notice our buses in and around the villages in our West Sussex Minibus livery.
Our Users
We provide a door to door service to Members, enabling then to go both on regular shopping trips and special outings. We return passengers safely to their homes, and assist (if required) with carrying their shopping bags to their front door. Our users (and volunteers) enjoy making new friends and sharing time together on our trips!
Our minibuses are used by a variety of community groups including Senior Lunch Clubs, the Scouts and Guides, Horticultural Societies and other formal and informal special interest groups.
Our Organisation and Volunteers
The Community Minibus Association (West Sussex) is a registered charity, run entirely by unpaid volunteers. Operating as West Sussex Minibus, the charity has been helping people get out and about in rural West Sussex for more than 40 years. Click here to find out how we’re organised.
Volunteers get involved with driving and escorting on trips, as well as administration and fund raising. We’re grateful for all their efforts.
For further information please call 0300 772 7735
Billingshurst
Five Villages
Wisbrourough Green
Annual meeting attended by over 50 volunteers
The Annual Meeting was attended by many, at Fittleworth Village Hall on 20 July 2018. Chairman Alistair Sheppard gave an update on the charity since becoming a CIO, actively supported by President Sir Brian Barttelot and Vice President Nick Herbert MP. The formal...
Charity attends Storrington on Show
The Charity was pleased to take part in the Storrington on Show event to publicise its activities to prospective volunteers. Relationships with other organisations were developed. Ian Clarke, Division Organiser, chatted with VIce President Nick Herbert MP, who...
Wisborough Green members visit Wimbledon
On 2nd May the minibus visited the home of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. The weather was typically Wimbledon, a mix of sunshine and showers, but as much of the guided tour took place inside this did not matter . An excellent tour guide took us on...
AGM date set for Friday 20 July
Please join us at Fittleworth Village Hall for the AGM, 12 noon to 2pm. The Trustees will review the year 2017, and discuss current and future year activities.Passengers, Volunteers, other Members, and prospective Members are all welcome. Food and refreshments...
Petworth publicises grant from Sussex Community Foundation
Photos were taken outside Morgan Court Petworth, with passengers and volunteers celebrating their much needed replacement minibus. Funds for the purchase of the minibus were from the charity cash reserves together with a much needed grant provided in 2017 by the...