Elderly residents at the Edensor Care Home in Clacton have used their art and craft sessions to make Christmas cards for underprivileged orphans and schoolchildren in Africa. The Edensor nursing and dementia care home in Clacton on Sea is run by care providers Diagrama Foundation who support vulnerable children, young people, and adults to live…
The National Lottery hosted a spectacular music and entertainment show at the OVO Arena, Wembley on 4 December which included eight WWII veterans supported by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. The show celebrated the big moments of 2024 including the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, The National Lottery’s 30th anniversary and included surprise contributions…
WWII Dunkirk and Market Garden veteran Ray Whitwell died on Wednesday 20 November he was 105. During WWII Raymond ‘Ray’ Whitwell’, war took him from Dunkirk to North Africa and Italy before returning to England to prepare for Operation Market Garden in September 1944. In 2021 Ray shared his story with the Taxi Charity…
On 19 November, WWII veteran Peter Smoothy will celebrate his 100th birthday. On 6 June 1944 Peter Smoothy was one of the 156,000 allied servicemen that took part in the Invasion of Normandy as part of Operation Overlord. Peter was one a crew of 99 on a Landing Ship Tank LST 215 which headed across…
WWII veterans were driven to Shropshire to meet the master distiller who created a commemorative 80th anniversary D Day dark rum. The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans took a groups of veterans for a couple of days break in Shropshire which included a visit to meet the Distinct Distillers team who have been selling ‘44’…
The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was amongst the thousands who enjoyed the Battle Proms at Highclere Castle on 3 August. On 3 August, WWII Veterans, Norrie Bartlett, Harry Rice, Mervyn Kersh and Marie Scott, post war veterans Vic Needham Crofton and Peter Gospel and Mike, Ken, David and Trevor from The Royal Hospital Chelsea…
On ‘Ice Cream Day’ eleven residents from the Edensor Care home in Clacton enjoyed a taste test to select their preferred flavour of their favourite dessert. On 21 July, to celebrate National Ice Cream Day, eleven residents from the Edensor Nursing and Dementia Care Centre in Clacton-on-Sea, who all love ice cream, were asked to…
On 2 July, 70 volunteer cab drivers from the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans drove veterans to Worthing for a day at the coast. Over 100 veterans from London and the home counties enjoyed a day in Worthing courtesy of volunteer cab drivers who support the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. After rendezvousing for…
WWII veteran Henry ‘Harry’ Rawlins, 98, who served with The King’s Royal Rifle Corps died on Monday 10 June at The Royal Hospital Chelsea. His niece, Angela, and her husband Andrew were at his bedside. Harry joined the army at the age of 18 and was posted to the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. At Operation…