London cabbies to drive nearly 200 WWII veterans to Worthing for annual day trip
Every year since 1948, the Taxi Charity has been taking veterans to Worthing for the day to spend time with their friends and enjoy seaside favourites, fish and chips and ice cream. This year’s outing is only a week or so after many of the veterans spent a week in Normandy with the Taxi Charity for D-Day 75, remembering the friends they lost. Over 60 kind-hearted volunteer London cabbies will pick up nearly 200 veterans and their carers from their homes across the South East
Photos from our 2018 veterans trip to Worthing
On 12 June 2018, 100 volunteer cabbies from the Taxi Charity escorted veterans on a trip to Worthing. Following a tradition that began seventy years ago, the London cabbies picked up veterans and carers from their homes across the capital and headed off for their big day out. After a pit stop at South Holmwood village near Dorking in Surrey, for home-made sandwiches, cakes and refreshments, the taxis traveled in convoy along the A24 to Worthing. Once in Worthing, the veterans
Press Release: Seventieth annual day trip to Worthing for WWII veterans
Every year since 1948, the Taxi Charity has been bringing veterans to Worthing for the day to spend time with their friends and comrades and enjoy seaside favourites, fish and chips and ice cream. Following a tradition that began seventy years ago, 100 kind-hearted volunteer London cabbies will pick up veterans and carers from their homes across the capital on Tuesday 12 June and take them for a much-loved day trip to Worthing. After a pit stop at South Holmwood village near
Press Coverage: Veterans to visit town for 70th year, Worthing Herald
London black cabs will transport veterans to visit Worthing as part of a tradition that will take place for the 70th time next month. The Taxi Charity has been bringing veterans to the town for seven decades and more than 100 black cabs will drive south on June 12. Graham Pike, one of the London cabbies taking part and a committee member of the Taxi Charity, said: “Our annual Worthing trip is something we look forward to all year. “It’s a pleasure to treat these ladies and ge
Taxi Charity sponsors a brick at Fulham Palace
On Thursday 5 April, the Taxi Charity was invited to Brick Fest at Fulham Palace. Lee Copeland, who is a volunteer at Fulham Palace, sponsored a brick for the Taxi Charity as part of the restoration work at the palace, and we were able to see our brick and received a certificate of appreciation. We arrived at the palace at midday. Taxi Charity committee members, Graham Pike and Ian Parsons, were accompanied by Chelsea Pensioners, Mike Smith, Dave Lines, Ken McDonald and Bill
Photo Gallery: Veterans jump for Taxi Charity
On Thursday 10 August 2017, war veterans Ted Pieri, Fred Glover and Dick Carpenter (all 91), undertook tandem skydives with the Red Devils to fundraise for the Taxi Charity. They were accompanied by Chelsea Pensioner Mike Smith (68), who was making his 100th jump, Ted's granddaughter Hayley, and Taxi Charity committee member, Graham Pike. Getty Images sent photographer Leon Neal, who got some wonderful shots. And our own Dick Goodwin got some great photos. We have uploaded th
Press Release: Fred and Ted parachute into the Merville Battery 72 years after D-Day
It was a strategic operation that didn’t go to plan and has taken has taken on a legendary quality in the retelling of the history of D-Day. The capture of the Merville Battery in June 1944 was essential to the Allies’ preparation for the D-Day landings.
The British 6th Airborne Division was deployed on the night of 5 June 1944 to secure the eastern sector of the five beaches with the main objective to capture the two bridges over the Orne River and the Caen Canal (now kn
Press Release: Veterans and committee members to skydive for the Taxi Charity
Two WWII veterans, Ted Pieri and Fred Glover (both aged 90), are undertaking a pair of tandem skydives to raise funds for the Taxi Charity. Their first jump will be into the Merville Battery in France on Saturday 20 August 2016; their second will be with the Red Devils in Salisbury on Thursday 25 August 2016. Both tandem jumps are to raise funds for next year’s Taxi Charity D-Day trip to Normandy. For the second jump with the Red Devils, Ted and Fred will be joined by Taxi Ch
Taxi Charity's Graham Pike appears in OnRoute magazine
Taxi Charity committee member, Graham Pike, is featured in the April edition of Transport For London's OnRoute magazine. Graham, who has been on the Taxi Charity committee since 2013, was interviewed for a feature entitled 'Charity heroes: above and beyond'. Honouring the brave Taxi driver Graham Pike has always loved anything to do with the military and was in the cadets as a youngster and the Territorial Army for three years. So when he was doing his Knowledge of London 17
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