D Day Veteran Bill Gladden, supports the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans through his lifelong love of painting Bill Gladden, 96, from Welling in Kent, travels to Normandy and Holland every year with the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, for the annual commemoration services to remember the comrades he lost. These trips are all provided…
The first National Grief Week, to raise awareness of all aspects of grief and loss, will be held between 2 – 8 December Over the last eighteen years Kent Community Foundation has awarded grants to a range of initiatives supporting those living with grief in Kent and Medway and has more funding available for those…
Beautifully photographed WWII veteran’s portraits will be on show in the “3945 Portraits Project” exhibition at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum Photographer Glyn Dewis designed the 3945 Portraits Project to honour and remember surviving WWII Veterans by photographing as many of them as is possible, to provide both the veterans and their families with classic,…
In September 2018 a group of London Cabbies, including Daren, John and Brian decide on a mammoth challenge to lose weight, get fit, climb Kilimanjaro and raise money for The Taxi Charity www.taxicharity.org One of the cabbies Daren Parr has written this moving account of the last push to reach the summit of Kilmanjaro The…
The Taxi Charity took six veterans to Belgium, in six London licensed taxis, on 11 July, to join a team of military veterans and serving personnel, to experience excavating at the site of Wellington’s Field Hospital on the world-famous battlefield of Waterloo Led by professional archaeologists, the excavation, organised by the charity Waterloo Uncovered, explored…
For Marie Scott, the 75th anniversary of D-Day has become an even more special year as she has been awarded the highest French decoration – The Legion Of Honour – for the part she played working in Fort Southwick, Portsmouth, listening and collating the Operation Overlord messages. In 1944, 17-year-old Marie worked on the switchboard…
Did you see the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans Danny McCrudden singing with The D Day Darlings on ITV London News tonight What a hero he is. And don’t forget there are still a few tickets left for The D Day Darlings concert on 1 March where more veterans from the Taxi Charity will be making…
This year, thanks to a generous donation from The Taxi Charity, Russell Square Shelter Keeper Katie Simmonds will be serving free Christmas lunches to homeless or lonely veterans. On 18 December the Russell Square Cab Shelter will be serving a roast Christmas dinner with all the trimmings between 10.00am and 10pm to the…
Every November a Field of Remembrance memorial garden is opened close to Westminster Abbey The Taxi Charity takes veterans to this very important annual event which starts on the Thursday before Remembrance Sunday. It is very moving day for everyone who is lucky enough to attend and I am delighted to be able to…
Five London cabbies have joined together as a fundraising group called “Cabbies Do Kilimanjaro” on a year long mission to lose over 25 stones before climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. The cabbies volunteer for The Taxi Charity for Military veterans and want to raise £20,000 to support the work the charity does to support veterans. Roshan…