2023 High Sheriff of Kent Awards announced at an event in Maidstone. On 22 March invited guests joined the High Sheriff of Kent 2022/23, Russell J Race Esq JP DL, at the Mercure Great Danes for an evening reception to learn which charities and community groups had been recognised with a 2023 High Sheriff Award.…
In 2022 WWII Veteran Roy Maxwell was in Normandy for the D Day commemorations with the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. On 5 June the charity brought a group of WWII veterans to a service at Pegasus Museum and after the service Roy met Anthony Lang and his son and spent some time chatting together…
Three London cab drivers have successfully rowed the Atlantic to raise funds for charity. London cab drivers Daren Parr 56, Bob Barber 56 and Stuart Lockhart 50 swapped their iconic black taxis for a Scud Ocean Rowing boat and set off from Lanzarote on 3 January to row the 3200 miles across the Atlantic to…
On 6 March the Taxi Charity hosted an event at the RAF Club in London for veterans and serving personnel to celebrate International Women’s Day. The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans’ event at the RAF Club in Piccadilly was attended by over 90 guests including veterans, serving personnel and Taxi Charity volunteers. The guest list…
On International Women’s Day Kent Community Foundation is celebrating women working in the charitable sector across Kent On 8 March the world celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Kent Community Foundation is celebrating the thousands of women who work in the charitable sector across the county and has chosen six inspirational…
The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was delighted to receive an £18,000 grant from ABF The Soldiers’ Charity to fund its programme of special trips and activities. ABF The Soldiers’ Charity supports partner charities which improve the wellbeing of armed forces veterans, especially those who are elderly or disabled. The £18,000 grant will go towards…
To commemorate International Women’s Day, the charity Diagrama is highlighting some of the many incredible achievements by women who have chosen to foster and change the life of children and young adults. Kristin Nevins share’s her home with her husband Peter, their four biological children and their 11-year-old foster child ‘Jack’. “Our foster son ‘Jack’…
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. One man who has been associated with the charity for almost all of those years is Len Sheppard, 93 from Albany Park. The Taxi Charity was formed seventy five years ago in 1948 and just a few years later London cab driver Len…
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans 2023 will mark the 75th anniversary of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, a remarkable milestone for a small charity which supports veterans throughout the UK. Founded in 1948 by three London Cab drivers who wanted to arrange for friends who had been…
On 13 December WWII Veteran Henry ‘Harry’ Rawlins was presented with the Liberators Thank You Medal at a ceremony at the Netherlands Embassy. On 13 December, Chelsea Pensioner Harry Rawlins, 97, made the short journey from The Royal Hospital Chelsea to the Netherlands Embassy in South Kensington, where he was presented with the Liberators Thank…