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Mar 18, 2019

A trio of veterans visit school in Cabourg

On Thursday 7 March, on the last day of the Taxi Charity's planning trip for D-Day 75, veterans Frank Pendergast, Fred Glover and Bill...

Nov 13, 2017

Forces TV video report of our Back To The Beaches trip shown on Remembrance Sunday

In case you missed it, here's the wonderful video report by Forces News, filmed when they covered our Back To The Beaches trip to France...

Aug 14, 2017

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...

Aug 11, 2017

Fantastic press coverage for our veterans' fundraising skydive with the Red Devils on 10 August

A huge thank you to all the journalists and photographers that came along to report on Chelsea Pensioner, Mike Smith (68), and WWII...

Aug 8, 2017

100th skydive for Chelsea Pensioner along with WWII veterans, Fred and Ted

Chelsea Pensioner Mike Smith (68) will be swapping his scarlet uniform for a red jumpsuit when he joins two WWII heroes on a charity...

Jan 25, 2017

WWII veterans invited on final trip back to the beaches

Kind-hearted drivers of London’s iconic black cabs are making plans to transport hundreds of World War II veterans on a final trip back...

Sep 15, 2016

Fast Eddie's Blog: September 2016 Update

Hello again all you taxi troopers! Fast Eddie, your vice president, reporting in with a round-up of events over the last six months. At...

Sep 13, 2016

Press Release: Taxi Charity stars on BBC One at National Lottery Award ceremony

WWII veterans Fred Glover and Geoff Pattinson and volunteer committee members from the London Taxi Benevolent Association for War...

Sep 1, 2016

Meet the London cabbies taking war veterans on tailormade trips, The Telegraph

It is time for celebration at the Royal Chelsea Hospital. Wartime classics float around a handsome, wood-panelled room, as three smiling...

Aug 26, 2016

London's war heroes and taxi drivers named UK's best voluntary/charity project, Lottery Good

Strictly star Katie Derham was taken for a spin as she presented them with their National Lottery Awards trophy The London Taxi...

Aug 26, 2016

Two 90-year-old World War II veterans parachute into field where one was shot down 72 years ago, Peo

More than 70 years ago, Fred Glover was a member of the British Airborne Division in World War II when his glider was hit by...

Aug 26, 2016

Pair of 90-year-old D-Day veterans make tandem parachute jump for charity - five days after jumping

Two 90-year-old D-Day veterans made their second tandem parachute jump in just five days - with one landing on the battlefield he was...

Aug 26, 2016

WW2 veterans prove you're never too old to skydive, Forces TV

Skydiving for charity is nothing unusual - but skydiving at the age of 90 is. Two second world war veterans did just that for the Taxi...

Aug 25, 2016

Second World War veterans, 90, complete tandem parachute jumps for Taxi Charity, BT

Two 90-year-old Second World War veterans made their second tandem parachute jump in just five days on Thursday, with one even landing in...

Aug 25, 2016

D-Day veterans, 90, parachute from plane into field where one was shot down 72 years ago, Evening St

Two 90-year-old Second World War veterans parachuted into a French field where one of them was shot down by the Luftwaffe 72 years ago. ...

Aug 25, 2016

Second World War veterans, 90, complete tandem parachute jumps for Taxi Charity, Belfast Telegraph

Two 90-year-old Second World War veterans made their second tandem parachute jump in just five days on Thursday, with one even landing in...

Aug 21, 2016

Deux vétérans de 90 ans sautent en parachute pour la bonne cause, Europe 1

Deux vétérans britanniques de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, âgés de 90 ans, ont sauté en parachute samedi dans le Calvados pour récolter...

Aug 18, 2016

Fred and Ted parachute into the Merville Battery 72 years after D-Day, Mature Times

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...

Aug 17, 2016

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...

Aug 1, 2016

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...

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