Fifteen cabs driven by Taxi Charity volunteers took a group of veterans to the Netherlands for Dutch Liberation. The London based Taxi Charity has been taking veterans to the Netherlands for Dutch Liberation since 2012. The liberation event begins on 4 May when the Dutch remember the civilians and members of the armed forced who…
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…
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…
A twenty-seven-year-old businessman has spread festive cheer by donating £15,000 to the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, to pay for veterans to enjoy a Christmas lunch. On 8 December 2022 veterans from across London, the southeast, Suffolk and Wiltshire gathered together at Millwall Football Club for the annual Taxi Charity for Military Veterans Christmas lunch.…
On Remembrance Sunday kind hearted London cab drivers will give up their time to drive veterans around London. On 13 November, hundreds of London Cab drivers will volunteer their time to support the free Poppy Cabs Service which transports veterans around the Capital to attend services at The Cenotaph and participate in the Remembrance Sunday…
During the recent visit to the Netherlands London cab driver Ian Parsons handed over the role of Chairman of The Taxi Charity to fellow cab driver Brian Heffernan. The previous and new Chairman agreed that the Taxi Charity trip to the Netherlands for Wandeltocht, the Airborne commemorative walk, over the first weekend of September was…
London Cab Drivers, Taxi Charity volunteers and WWII veterans joined the thousands at the annual Airborne March in Oosterbeek. On 3 September, a group of Taxi Charity volunteers who had brought seven WWII veterans and their carers and families to the Netherlands joined the estimated 32,000 other participants to walk a 15km section of the…
The small village of South Holmwood, near Dorking has been welcoming London cab drivers and veterans every summer since 1948. One couple is determined that the tradition will continue. Resident Ian Fairbrother 79 has lived in South Holmwood all his life. His wife Sue 74 is a relative newcomer having only moved to the village…
Last week D Day Veteran Bill Gladden returned to the barn where his life was saved when he was injured in 1944. Bill Gladden, 98 from Haverhill in Suffolk, served with the 6th Airborne, Recce Regiment. On 6 June, aged 20, Bill flew into Normandy on a glider carrying a tank and six motorbikes, as…