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On Valentine’s Day Married London Cabbies Announce their Commitment to Get Fit and Climb Mount Kilimanjaro to Raise Funds for Children’s Charites in the UK and Tanzania

February 13, 2020 | in Blog, Charity, children, Countryside, Event, Fundraising, Hero, Kilimanjaro, London, Taxi, volunteers

London Cabbies Stuart Lockhart 47 and Lynsey Lockhart 45 married in July 2019 in Scotland.  Stuart has been a cabby for 16 years and Lynsey for 8 years and they met in their roles as cab drivers. Recently they climbed in the Atlas Mountains as part of a holiday to Morocco and they were hooked…

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Children’s Mental Health Week, 3-9 February

February 3, 2020 | in Charity, children, Clients, Event, Grants, Kent

Set up by children’s mental health charity Place2Be, Children’s Mental Health Week shines a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s mental health.       The theme of this year’s Place2Be Children’s Mental Health Week is Find your Brave,  supported by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge www.royal.uk/duchess-cambridges-message-mark-place2be-children%E2%80%99s-mental-health-week-2020     Josephine McCartney, Chief Executive, Kent…

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Kent Community Foundation is delighted to announce an additional £2.65 million funding for good causes in Tonbridge and Malling

January 29, 2020 | in Charity, Clients, Fundraising, Grants, Kent

The £2.65 million donation to Kent Community Foundation will support charities, community groups and social enterprises representing the 130,000 people living in Tonbridge and Malling and will be called the High Hilden Fund.   Bill Wass, Chair of the High Hilden Fund panel, said, “The High Hilden Care Home was a much-loved local facility in…

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London’s Shortest Cabbie Set to climb Africa’s tallest mountain

January 23, 2020 | in Charity, Clients, Event, Fundraising, Hero, Kilimanjaro, London, Taxi

This year London’s shortest cabbie Claire Zazzara plans to lose four stones, get fit and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, while raising money for the London Taxi Driver’s Charity for Children Claire Zazzara, 46, has been a London Cabbie for eight years. At only 4ft and 10 inches she is proud to be London’s shortest cabbie. Over…

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Blue Monday Debt Advice

January 21, 2020 | in Advice, Blog, Charity, Clients, Debt, Kent

The third Monday in January is known as Blue Monday due to a combination of post-Christmas blues, cold dark nights and the arrival of credit card bills For many in Kent, 20th January, the third Monday in January, will be just another day living with the continual worry about the financial pressures they are under.…

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