In May 2019, the Taxi Charity escorted a group of nonagenarian RAF veterans to Berlin for the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Berlin Airlift. Our involvement in this trip features in a wonderful article in the RAF Association's quarterly magazine, Air Mail. Earlier this year six RAF veterans, including Association member Allan Mercado, attended an anniversary service at Tempelhof Memorial Park to mark 70 years since the end of the Berlin Airlift. Allan joined the RAF in

Since going to watch veterans skydive for the Taxi Charity, I have become a supporter of the charity. I am also a Rotarian and, by chance, when entertaining my 'old boys' for lunch one day, the subject of the upcoming visit to Berlin to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Berlin airlift and my longstanding Rotary colleague Bill Lawson, now aged 98, mentioned that he had been in the RAF. From then on the arrangements were taken in hand and I was given the opportunity of ac

Thank you to The Cab Driver newspaper for including an excellent article by Taxi Charity PR, Christina Bowden, about our recent veterans' trip to Berlin. The Taxi Charity escorted a group of seven nonagenarian RAF veterans to Berlin for the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Berlin Airlift. Click here for more information and photos. #TheCabDriver #ChristinaBowden #BerlinAirlift

The Taxi Charity recently escorted a group of nonagenarian RAF veterans to Berlin for the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Berlin Airlift. The veterans arrived in Berlin on 10 May and were met at the airport by four London taxis, to take them to a reception at the British Embassy, hosted by UK Air Attaché, Group Captain Mark Heffron. The following day, the taxis took the veterans to visit the Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie, followed by a reception at the Allied M