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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 Eas

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 veter

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 nea

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 an

On Thursday 5 April, the Taxi Charity was invited to Brick Fest at Fulham Palace. Lee Copeland, who is a volunteer at Fulham Palace,...

On Thursday 10 August 2017, war veterans Ted Pieri, Fred Glover and Dick Carpenter (all 91), undertook tandem skydives with the Red...

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...

Two WWII veterans, Ted Pieri and Fred Glover (both aged 90), are undertaking a pair of tandem skydives to raise funds for the Taxi...

Taxi Charity committee member, Graham Pike, is featured in the April edition of Transport For London's OnRoute magazine. Graham, who has...