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Obituary – Roy Smith 28.11.1925 – 23.6.2023

June 30, 2023 | in Annual trip, Arnhem, Cab drivers, Cabbies, Charity, D Day, Dad, Dutch Liberation, Elderly, Father, Kent, London, Normandy, obituary, Operation Market Garden, Sittingbourne, south east, Taxi, The Netherlands, The Taxi Charity For Military Veterans, Tribute, veteran, Veterans, volunteers, WWII

WWII Normandy veteran Roy ‘Smudger’ Smith from Sittingbourne in Kent died in hospital on Friday 23 June, he was 97. Roy Smith is survived by his two daughters, Linda Harvey and Teresa Rising, five grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Roy was born in November 1925 in Sittingbourne, Kent, the second youngest of seven children. From…

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KCF Core Support Fund 2023
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Multi-Year Funding Announced to Reduce the Pressure on Kent Charities

June 23, 2023 | in Ashford, Award, Charity, children, community groups, core support, Dartford, Dover, Elderly, Employment, Environment, family, Faversham, Folkestone, Folkestone & Hythe, Food, Foodbanks, Fund Holders, funding, Fundraising, Funds, Grants, Gravesend, Gravesham, Herne Bay, Kent, Kent Community Foundation, Maidstone, Malling, Margate, Medway, new fund, Sevenoaks, Sittingbourne, Support, Swale, Thanet, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells, volunteers, Whitstable, Women

£400,000 from the John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust will allow Kent Community Foundation to offer multi-year funding to thirteen organisations across Kent and Medway. Thanks to the generosity and vision of the John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust, £400,000 has been made available to Kent Community Foundation to be used to support thirteen organisations. With running…

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WWII Veteran Roy Smith
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Veteran’s Passport Collected Just Hours Before Ferry Crossing

May 10, 2023 | in Annual trip, Arnhem, Cab drivers, Cabbies, Celebration, champion, Charity, Dutch Liberation, Elderly, Event, Hero, Kent, London, Sittingbourne, Taxi, The Netherlands, The Taxi Charity For Military Veterans, veteran, Veterans, Visit, volunteers, Wageningen, WWII

WWII Veteran Roy Smith’s passport renewal was collected just in time for him to travel to the Netherlands for Dutch Liberation. It was touch and go whether WWII Veteran Roy Smith from Sittingbourne would be able to travel to the Netherlands with the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans when his passport renewal got held up…

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