About Us
We have been serving the Edmonton community since 2001; offering safe and affordable volunteer driven transportation to seniors. Our mission is to provide transportation support by driving frail and needy seniors to and from their vital appointments in the Greater Edmonton area so as to enhance their independence and quality of life.

Who can be a member?
The older senior, usually in the age group of 80+, walking still, may be with a cane or walker, and is on the low income threshold with net income varied between $22,700 and $31,325. For the senior couple, the net income varies between $36,900 and $62,650. Contact S.A.T.S. office to obtain a membership application form if you are considering becoming a member.

How to become a member?
If you think you qualify for membership, contact S.A.T.S. office to obtain a membership application form.

A social worker staff or an authorized volunteer representative from S.A.T.S. will provide a membership application to you and set up an appointment with you to help you fill in and/or review the contents of the application form only if we have volunteer resources available to support you at the time of your request.

In case we do not have adequate volunteer resources to support you, S.A.T.S. office will obtain your name and contact details and place you on a waiting list. You may call S.A.T.S. office on any week day between 10am and 4pm to enquire about the current status of the waiting list, if any.

The membership application will be provided and assessed on the order of priority of waiting list by considering factors such as age, income, support from family/community, level of mobility, lack of transportation, health, safety and other essential needs.

Once we approve your membership application, you need to pay $20 towards the Annual membership fee for 12 months period starting from July to June. The membership can be renewed every year by paying $20 on or before the month of June. If you are paying the membership fee for the first time, the fee will be calculated on a pro-rated basis at the rate of $2 per month for the period starting from the month you start until the month of June.

How do we support your transportation need?
You will call S.A.T.S. office to book an appointment at least 3 days in advance. Also you need to purchase an adequate number of volunteer driving tickets in advance from S.A.T.S. office depending on your transportation needs.

Each volunteer driving ticket costs $10. You need to give this $10 volunteer driving ticket to the volunteer at the end of the trip for a return trip under 2 hours from home to back home again. For any time over 2 hours, 2 volunteer driving tickets must be given to the volunteer for the ride.

You can book maximum 2 rides a week and rides are from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. We drive on weekends as well.

We will contact a volunteer driver from our list of approved volunteer drivers. The volunteer drivers are approved by S.A.T.S. by considering their availability, service mindedness, clean driver record, police clearance and a few other factors. Please remember our S.A.T.S. volunteer drivers cannot under any circumstances book rides, accept cash or purchase volunteer driving tickets. Also, please note that all the parking costs are the responsibility of the customer.

Thank You for thinking of S.A.T.S. Volunteer Driving.
We think you will enjoy the volunteer drivers as we do!
We wish you pleasant and safe rides in the community.

Please contact us for more information.

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