News & Updates

Thank you to The Cab Driver newspaper for featuring our recent article by Taxi Charity chairman, Ian Parsons, about the skydiving wives -...

On Tuesday 9 July at Old Sarum Aerodrome, Taxi Charity committee wives, Anne Parsons and Susy Goodwin, completed their long-awaited...

On October 7 last year, at the Royal Hospital party, we rashly thought it would be a good idea to jump out of a perfectly serviceable...

8 May 1926 - 12 January 2019 Today we said farewell to Edward 'Ted' Pieri - an Airborne Warrior of Market Garden, Norway and Palestine....

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

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

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

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...

On Thursday 1 September 2016, the Taxi Charity took five Arnhem veterans to the 70th anniversary of the Airborne March, known locally as...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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

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...

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...

On Thursday 3 December, the Taxi Charity held its annual Christmas lunch for war veterans. Approx. 150 veterans and over 100 veterans'...