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Meals on wheels
The meals on wheels service provides freshly cooked hot meals direct to your door.
Due to current capacity limitations, we are now only taking referrals for new hospital discharge clients who do not have the support of Surrey County Council's Adult Social Care team. We will provide a service up to a maximum of 6 weeks from discharge, but not beyond 20 December 2025.
Meals on Wheels provides delicious hot meals direct to your door, across all of the borough. Our service allows people to remain independent in their own home.
We can provide a range of specialised diets such as vegetarian, gluten free, soft or diabetic. We try to provide meals that meet the medical and cultural needs of our customers.
And our service isn’t just a hot meal! Our friendly volunteer delivery drivers have a quick chat with everyone on the round.
Service criteria
The Meals on Wheels service is for people who:
- can remain living at home if Meals on Wheels services are provided and
- live alone or are without support to prepare a meal and
- are unable to cook or heat up a meal and
- if a new client they have been discharged from hospital and do not have support from Surrey County Council's Adult Social Care team.
Frozen meals can be provided for the weekend if the resident has family or friends visiting who can heat these up. These are delivered alongside the Friday hot meal before the weekend.
What we offer
Our service can deliver a lunchtime meal to your door.
| Service | Provides | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Hot lunchtime service | Either a 2 course (main meal and pudding) or 1 course meal. Meals include classics such as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding or fish in parsley sauce. Puddings include apple crumble and chocolate cake. | £6.10 for 2 courses or £5.80 for 1 course |
Applications for meals on wheels
We process applications during the week (9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday). We are not open at the weekends or during the bank holidays.
The turnaround time to process meals on wheels referrals is 3 working days, and therefore your online form needs to have a start date of at least 3 working days from completion.
More information
If you have any questions about the service, email commservices@elmbridge.gov.uk or call us on 01372 474552, during office hours: 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays.
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