Letting Our Lodge As A Respite Holiday, Are There Any Agencies Out There?

[RATTER15]

We are looking at possibly letting our lodge for respite holidays for the elderly or disabled and providing around the clock care and transport for those that require it but I would like to go through an agency as I think advertising this service nation wide would not be very easy and probably quite costly. Does anybody know of such an agency?

I have searched but get bogged down by all the care homes advertising a similar service.

[Tilly2]

I don't know ofany agencies Ratter but what about looking at different charities like Age UK, Mind or Scope?

[RATTER15]

Thanks Tilly, good idea!

[Peter Pedant]

or contact your local social services - be careful to phrase it so that they dont think you are asking them to advertise your services

[wolf63]

Are there any national events that you could attend which are relevant to this area of work? Handing out leaflets, manning a stand etc

[wolf63]

Facebook, if used properly and professionally, could be a powerful tool.

[RATTER15]

Wolf, good idea, Whilst I use Facebook, I dont really understand the intricacies of "pages" and "Groups" etc, I done one for the lodge and it is a real mess as you can See here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bwlchgwynlodge/

If any mods think that I am advertising then please feel free to delete this post.

[woofgang]

RATTER I googled "travel agents for disabled" and came up with loads of hits, have you tried that?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&;rls=en&q=travel+agents+for+disabled&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&;gws_rd=cr&;ei=jL--UoOTDqfR7AbnyIHwBA

[Blackiequine]

What a lovely thought, it's so nice that there are people like you. I can't be of any help but very good luck with it. Hope there aren't too many obstacles put in your way.

[jomifl]

your local business directory might help

[jomifl]

I think you could put more photos of your environs on your facebook page. Most city dwellers would be utterly seduced by that that part of Wales.

[DTCwordfan]

I have a close friend from Uni days whose sis (now retired) was Senior Legal Counsel of Help the Aged....there was someone on here who knew her, for love of money I can't remember who it was.

Anyway, if you are interested, you could always send me an e-mail on [email protected] and then I could switch it over to my main account and go through my friend to his sister - he is also a lawyer. Can't guarantee that it will work though.

Don't let to the likes of Sqad, i.e Doctors (not accusing Sqad though) - in St Ives, they had the reputation of being the dirtiest b-s of all when it came to letting - probably as they have to be so clean for the rest of the year.....

[237SJ]

You could try linking up with these -

http://www.openbritain.net/wales/

[RATTER15]

Thanks people, I will be doing some research into some of those suggestions.

[albaqwerty]

friends of mine had a lodge in Dunoon some years back, I can't remember how/who they established a web-site, with interior and exterior photos, so when holiday cottages for let in Argyll (for example) was searched on tinterweb, theirs also showed in the results section.