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YORK CABBIES PUT THEIR SHIRTS ON TO BOOST HEROES
Taxi drivers in York are injecting colour into their cabs to raise cash for Help For Heroes.
About 160 cabbies who work out of York station ditched their traditional white shirts last month in favour of more colourful num-
bers in exchange for a fee to help raise money for the forces charity.
Organiser Cliff Tal- madge, of Station Taxis, whose son, Lance, is serving with the Royal Marines in Afghanistan, is a regis- tered collector for the
charity.
He told the York Press: “I’ve raised £450 so far and hopefully on the day we’ll be able to get some more. I organ- ised it to coincide with the races and there were banners and col- lection buckets at the station on both days.”
BURTON TAXI FIRM TOASTS RELOCATION WITH SCANNER CASH
Drivers at a Burton taxi firm have celebrated their relocation by raising money for the Burton’s Queen’s Hos- pital Scanner Appeal. The Burton Mail reports that Alpine Taxis has moved from Hawkins Lane to High Street in what it says is an effort to provide improved conven- ience to its customers, and has collected £100 for the scanner appeal to mark the opening of its new base.
‘GOOD EGG’ EXMOUTH PROPRIETOR OFFERS GARDENING SERVICE
An Exmouth business- man committed to helping the elderly and disabled has been awarded the Exmouth Journal’s Good Egg award.
Direct Taxis owner Tony Quinn, 43, has been nominated by his wife, Nicola, for his community gardening service. Tony, who recently scaled Mount Snow- don in aid of the Children’s Hospice South West, funds a project which provides free labour to the taxi firm’s elderly and dis- abled customers. In July 2010, Tony launched Team Direct - a group of volunteers who each week give up their time to help
the less able tend their gardens. He also teamed up with Rat- cliffe House, in Burnside, and Direct Home Assistance, to provide free gardening labour for clients. Tony, who in the last two years with his taxi firm has raised more than £8,000 for Cancer Research UK after holding sponsored sea-front fancy dress walks and darts tour- naments, hopes to roll out the service to other care companies in Exmouth and Exeter. Wife Nicola told the Journal: “We first decided that we would take out residents from various nursing homes for dinner as a way of saying thank
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you to them and their staff for using our taxis.
“Then my husband Tony had the great idea of offering more to the community by organising a voluntary gardening service to our elderly customers - again, as a way of saying thank you. “Tony formed a group of volunteers calling themselves Team Direct. It includes two of our drivers, Les Carde and Beany Bleasdale, who each week give up their time to help the elderly with their gardens. “It started last July and has carried on again this year. Tony has funded the whole proj- ect himself.”
LIVERPOOL CABBIES HAIL A GREAT DAY OUT FOR THE KIDS
Merseyside children were taken on a taxi journey to remember by a Liverpool charity. They were the special guests of the Liverpool Taxi Drivers’ Outing Fund which has been taking children in care out every year since it was founded in 1985. And founder Bernie Buxton said they had a brilliant time.
He told the Liverpool Echo: “It was fantastic. We had about 80 chil- dren turn up. They had a great time.”
All year round Liver- pool cabbies collect money through spon- sored events and
The fleet of cabs sets off from the Taxi Drivers’ club in Cherry Lane, Walton Picture courtesy of The Liverpool Echo
golfing days so they can take children in care and foster homes out for a treat.
This year the fleet of
balloon-festooned cabs took the children to the Camelot Theme Park in Charnock Richard.
TAXI PULL A FARE WAY TO RAISE CASH
Blackpool taxi drivers have flexed their mus- cles to raise money for a Fylde coast Armed Forces charity.
Instead of getting behind the wheel to take the journey along the Prom, 14 cabbies opted to pull their cars. Starting in front of The Tower, the vehicles were pulled to the Pleasure Beach, before turning around
and returning up the Prom to the Cenotaph. Organiser Bill Lewtas, who helped to raise £2,500 for the Fylde Liaison Committee, which looks after serv- ice veterans, told the Blackpool Gazette: “The taxi trade of Blackpool is proud to support the Armed Forces.
“There’s a lot of enthu- siasm for this every
year and a lot of peo- ple pitched in. “We think it’s a very good charity and we want to support the Armed Forces in the way they have sup- ported us.”
The drivers’ push to raise money for all three of the services will continue next year when they attempt to pull three cars instead of just the two.
THE LTFUC ARE INVITED TO THE AHOY BOAT CENTRE IN DEPTFORD
On Monday 27th June, the LTFUC’S Hon. President Bill Tyzack, BEM, Hon. Chair Susan Angel, Press Officer Raymond Levy and Assistant Treasur- er Lilian Julier all attended a reception on behalf of the LTFUC to celebrate the progress in establish- ing AHOY’s new community building. Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal had also been invited to see the new building and to officially name a new Power Cat 40 boat ‘The Ahoy Freedom’,
Power Cat 40 boat ‘The Ahoy Freedom’
which is the only boat in the UK that can be crewed by young peo- ple with disabilities. In 2006 the LTFUC donated in excess of
£11,000 to the Ahoy Centre to have a boat specially built to enable disabled chil- dren to sail on the River Thames.
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