TAXI CHARITY FOR MILITARY VETERANS

As well as our trips to Worthing and Normandy, we now also take veterans to the Netherlands and arrange Brian: As well as trips to the Netherlands to commemorate Dutch Liberation and to Normandy for the D-Day

They take us on all sorts of trips, including France and the Netherlands. It’s lovely.

With all the usual Taxi Charity events, including the visits to Normandy, the Netherlands and Worthing well as Christmas cards from the Taxi Charity, the veterans also receive cards from families in the Netherlands

Ian Parsons, chairman of the Taxi Charity, said: "We’ve enjoyed memorable trips to the Netherlands and

I also managed to get Alan accepted to the Stichting Nederland Amerika pilgrimage in the Netherlands,

Taxi Charity for Military Veterans who this year have taken me and other WWII veterans to both the Netherlands

The charity is preparing to take a group of WWII veterans to the Netherlands in May for Dutch Liberation

Rob Arts, Military and Air Attaché and Deputy Defence Attaché, from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

This trip was to have taken place 2 - 6 May, and we planned to take as many WWII veterans to the Netherlands AIRBORNE MUSEUM - OOSTERBEEK One week later, we escorted six Battle of Arnhem veterans to the Netherlands The Dutch government announced all museums in the Netherlands must close with immediate effect. In a symbolic gesture of thanks to the British veterans who helped liberate his country, the Netherlands All impossible now, so that is why if Ken and his comrades can't come to the Netherlands, we'll come

He is one of 25 veterans meant to be travelling in a fleet of London black cabs to the Netherlands on

Norfolks and took part in the fighting at Overloon and Venray in October 1944 in the south-east of the Netherlands

In May, we escorted WWII veterans to the Netherlands to participate in the annual Dutch Liberation celebrations We returned to the Netherlands in September with Operation ‘Market Garden’ veterans to commemorate the

wonderful man who has always been a hugely important part of so many trips with us to Normandy and the Netherlands

and social media continuing to raise much needed funding and to all our friends in Normandy and the Netherlands

70th anniversary and joined the Taxi Charity on our 2012 trip to commemorate the liberation of the Netherlands

volunteer group of London black cab drivers who arrange free trips for veterans from all conflicts to the Netherlands

this isn't the only trip our veterans have missed this year, as we were also unable to travel to the Netherlands

The charity arranges free trips to the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, for acts of commemoration and

WWII from the veterans I meet with the charity and know so much about what happened in France and the Netherlands certainly hope that next year we are able to take our amazing WWII veterans back to Normandy and the Netherlands

Rob Arts, Military and Air Attaché and Deputy Defence Attaché, from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands