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Veterans visit North Cheam Sports and Social Club, TAXI
On 5 March the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans escorted over 100 veterans to the North Cheam Sports and Social Club for lunch. The...
Mar 24, 2020
Taxi Charity sends special cards to veterans who are self-isolating
The Taxi Charity has posted out special cards to veterans, with phone numbers of supporters and cabbies, that they can call for help or...
Mar 23, 2020
Vets visit HMS Queen Elizabeth, The Badge
A huge thank you to The Badge for its wonderful coverage of our veterans trip to HMS Queen Elizabeth in the March issue. #TheBadge
Mar 12, 2020
Veterans visit North Cheam Sports and Social Club
On 5 March, the Taxi Charity escorted over 100 veterans to the North Cheam Sports and Social Club for lunch. The veterans were invited by...
Mar 11, 2020
Taxi Charity takes veterans to Gennep for commemoration services
The Taxi Charity recently escorted a number of veterans to the Netherlands to take part in the 75th anniversary commemorations of the...
Feb 17, 2020
Chairman's Blog: 2019 Review
Last year was by far the busiest and most varied in our history. A year punctuated by historic and landmark anniversaries, ones which...
Feb 9, 2020
Veterans enjoy lunch at the RAF Club, The Badge
A huge thank you to The Badge for its wonderful coverage of our veterans lunch at the RAF Club (23 Jan) in the February issue. #TheBadge
Feb 9, 2020
Veterans enjoy lunch at The RAF Club
On 23 January, a group of veterans were invited to a special lunch at The RAF Club in Mayfair to thank them for all they do to help raise...
Jan 28, 2020
Taxi Charity helps Bill Gladden to celebrate his 96th birthday
Last night, Bill Gladden celebrated his 96th birthday with fellow WWII veterans Harry Rawlins and Frank Pendergast, and a host of friends...
Jan 16, 2020
WWII veteran supports Taxi Charity with art
D-Day veteran, Bill Gladden, supports the Taxi Charity through his lifelong love of painting Bill Gladden, 96, from Welling in Kent,...
Jan 14, 2020
Tom Schaffer receives Dutch Liberation Medal
On 5 December, WWII veteran Tom Schaffer was presented with the Dutch Liberation Medal at the Taxi Charity's annual Christmas lunch. The...
Dec 10, 2019
War veterans enjoy Christmas party at Millwall FC
The Taxi Charity was delighted to host its annual Christmas party for war veterans on 5 December. Veterans from WWII to Afghanistan...
Dec 10, 2019
The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans - a poem by Harry Rawlins, Rifle Brigade
THE TAXI CHARITY FOR MILITARY VETERANS It was well worth being shot at to join this happy band, The taxi driver’s charity, the finest in...
Dec 6, 2019
Photos from our recent visit to Hyde Park Barracks
On 20 November 2019, volunteer drivers from the Taxi Charity escorted a number of veterans to Hyde Park Barracks (also known as...
Nov 21, 2019
Frank Pendergast shares his thanks to the Taxi Charity
WWII veteran Frank Pendergast thanks the Taxi Charity for picking him up from home and taking him to the Remembrance Sunday...
Nov 10, 2019
WWII veterans interviewed at Imperial War Museum by RNRMC for short film about loneliness
On Friday 1 November, the Taxi Charity escorted four veterans to the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London to be filmed by the Royal Navy...
Nov 3, 2019
Remembrance Sunday: We will remember them
Ahead of Sunday 10 November, we asked four veterans what Remembrance Sunday means to them. Frank Pendergast - Parachute Regiment "I think...
Nov 1, 2019
Chairman's Blog: A September to remember
The Taxi Charity organised two trips to the Netherlands during September 2019. The first was for the annual Airborne Walking March, known...
Oct 19, 2019
Taxi Charity escorts veterans to Airborne Wandeltocht 2019
In September 2019, volunteer cabbies from the Taxi Charity escorted a number of veterans to the Netherlands to take part in the Airborne...
Oct 19, 2019
WWII veterans' portraits to appear in exhibition at Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Beautifully photographed portraits of WWII veteran will be on display at The 3945 Portraits Project exhibition at the Soldiers of...
Oct 7, 2019
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