The Kent baby loss charity Abigail’s Footsteps has donated an Abi Cooling Cot to Poole Maternity hospital in memory of baby Andrew thanks to his mum Natalie Warren. Families who suffer the tragedy of stillbirth will be able to spend precious time with their baby at Poole Maternity Hospital thanks to an ‘Abi Cooling cot’…
A £3,750 grant from Kent Community Foundation will enable the charity Friends Together to open a new bereavement group in Tonbridge. Friends Together is a grass roots bereavement charity supporting the communities of West Kent. They applied to Kent Community Foundation for financial support to open a new group in the Tonbridge area to meet the…
On 17 May, London cab driver and Taxi Charity volunteer Colin Mills from the village of Nazeing in Essex, will be setting off from Bowness-on-Solway a village near Carlisle to walk the Hadrian’s Wall Path to celebrate his 60th birthday and attempt to raise £1,000 for the Taxi Charity. London cab driver and Taxi Charity…
London cab driver, Micky Harris launches cab hailing app ‘Unify London’, to give cabbies a better deal while helping charities. London cab driver and Taxi Charity volunteer Micky Harris has used an unexpected legacy from his late wife Barbara to create the Unify London App. Barbara regularly joined Micky on Taxi Charity trips to the…
A £5,000 grant from Kent Community Foundation will enable The Princess Project to expand its services into Tonbridge. The Princess Project has been successfully working with and supporting disadvantaged mums and their families in Kent for the last 11 years. A Kent Community Foundation grant of £5,000 will enable them to help more mums by…
On 23 April Fire Protection Engineer Martin Hills will be getting a close shave for charity in his local public house, The Duchess of Kent. Martin Hills is a regular in the Duchess of Kent in Northumberland Heath. Having spent many hours hearing stories from his friend, London Cab Driver Paul Cook about the Taxi…
The Diagrama Foundation Care Centre in Clacton on Sea has appointed Sabina Mach to the post of Care Home Manager. Sabina is well known to the residents, their families and the Edensor staff as she joined the care home in February 2010. The fifty-bed care home for the elderly with nursing and dementia needs is…
Kent Community Foundation has awarded £45,000 from the Ukrainian Support Fund to organisations that are supporting Ukrainian Refugees in Kent. The Ukrainian Support Fund launched in 2022 with funding from the Masonic Charitable Foundation to help local charities and community groups supporting Ukrainian refugees’ social integration into the UK. Kent Community Foundation has distributed £45,000…
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…