Fast Eddie's Blog: 2015 News Round-Up

Jan 7, 2016

Fast Eddie's Blog: 2015 News Round-Up

Hello once again all you taxi troopers. Fast Eddie reporting in. Well, here we are. The new year is upon us, so I thought it would be a good time for a round-up of the charity's 2015. It has been a good year and the Taxi Charity has worked very hard to make it a successful year. Early in the year, members of the committee sat down with the officials of the Royal British Legion at their HQ in Southwark to discuss where and how our two charities could work together to support o

Our veterans have another great morning collecting at King's Cross

Nov 27, 2015

Our veterans have another great morning collecting at King's Cross

The Taxi Charity would like to say a big thank you to our veterans for putting in another day collecting donations for the charity at King's Cross station yesterday. Veterans and other volunteers from the Taxi Charity gave up their morning to collect funds for next year's veterans outings. After a busy morning, the veterans were treated to a spot of lunch at The Parcel Yard pub in King's Cross station. A big thank you to the staff who looked after us. Top Photo: Ken, George,

Fast Eddie's Blog: News Round-up

Sep 24, 2015

Fast Eddie's Blog: News Round-up

Hello again my taxi troopers, Fast Eddie reporting in with a round-up of what has been happening recently. Please forgive my intermittent reports of late, but I have been on the sick list following a tummy operation. I'm glad to say I am back on parade once more. VJ Day Celebrations - 15 August 2015 Let's kick off with the VJ day celebrations on 15 August 2015. As you hopefully will have seen on the website, in the newspapers and on the tv, everything went off very well. Our

Fast Eddie's Blog: News Round-Up

Jul 20, 2015

Fast Eddie's Blog: News Round-Up

Hello again my taxi troopers, Just a quick update on events. We have taken a little break from our public collections - the last one took place at Blackfriars on 30 April 2015. Since then we have been enjoying some of the fruits of our collectors hard work. As you will be aware, since April we have had very successful trips to the Netherlands, Worthing and the Chalke Valley History Festival, which our veterans hugely enjoyed. Thank you to all those people who have been involv

Fast Eddie's Blog: Blackfriars Collection

May 1, 2015

Fast Eddie's Blog: Blackfriars Collection

Hello out there, As you may know, we had our final collection yesterday (30 April 2015) at Blackfriars. Well, I say collection but it was more like an event! We had the Royal British Legion there reporting and making a film, as well as the National Lottery representatives doing more or less the same thing. Our patron Vice-Admiral Sir Adrian Johns was also there to cheer us along. We adjourned to The Blackfriars Pub for lunch and a drink. We then went out into the garden area,

Fast Eddie's Blog: Collections Update

Apr 29, 2015

Fast Eddie's Blog: Collections Update

We held another collection at Bank underground station on Wednesday 22 April. It was another great day for the collectors, who took lots of lovely money for the charity. This was the penultimate collection before we travel to Holland on 2 May. Thursday 30 April will be our final collection before the trip. We'll be at Blackfriars underground station. By way of a little celebration and to say thank you to our collectors, we will cut short the collecting period and in the late

Apr 16, 2015

Fast Eddie's Blog: Collections Update

Hello my taxi troopers. First many thanks, yet again, to our team of collectors. We had two great days at London Bridge on 9 April and at Euston on 14 April. The boys are just little money magnets with another £11,464 in the pot for the Holland trip. Great stuff, lads! Just two more collections to go: Bank station on 22 April and Blackfriars on 30 April. I will see you all there. To all you would-be donators out there, time flies so please don’t put it off any longer. You on

Taxi Charity News: When Anthea Turner met our veterans

Apr 10, 2015

Taxi Charity News: When Anthea Turner met our veterans

We had a great day collecting at London Bridge station yesterday. Our veterans were out in full force, serenading the ladies and turning on the charm. And we caused a bit of a stir on Twitter when the lovely Anthea Turner stopped by, snapped a selfie with our very own Vic and then posted it to her Twitter account, saying: "Just paid my Uber penance at Piccadilly station @taxicharity best collectors ever xx" (She later clarified she was on her way to Piccadilly via London Brid

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