CHARITY CORNER
FUNDRAISING CAB DRIVERS CAN FINALLY HEAD TO TANZANIA TO CLIMB MOUNT KILIMANJARO
Finally with a green light to fly to Tanzania, Cabbies Do Kilimanjaro, a fundraising group of London Cab drivers will be flying to Africa in February 2022. Cabbies Daren and John and their cameraman Tim, who climbed Kiliman- jaro to raise money for the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans in 2019, will be joined in 2022 by fellow black cab drivers Lyndsey, Bob, Gary, Sarah, Stuart, and Stella. Wanting to push themselves even more this time, Daren, John, and Tim
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attempting to climb Africa’s two largest mountains. They will start by climbing 4,562 metre Mount Meru and will then be joined by the rest of the cab drivers at the foot of 5,895 metre Mount Kilimanjaro to climb the world’s highest free-standing mountain together, in a huge back-to-back challenge. The team recently went for two day’s training in the Peak District under the guidance of Tim King who said, “Climb-
ing Kilimanjaro is an extremely tough challenge! It is impossible to replicate the conditions that we will face, especially the problems associated with high altitude, but the extreme weather conditions during our training in the Peak District were certainly challenging. The team coped extremely well, and it became apparent that the Cabbies Do
Kilimanjaro team had been putting in lots of hard work and physical training. Waiting for the travel restric- tions to lift has been frustrating but none of the team has lost their passion or dedication to smash this challenge and raise money for special needs and disad- vantaged children by supporting the London Taxi Drivers’ Charity for Children and a children’s community project in Tanzania.” The Cabbies Do Kilimanjaro
challenge hopes to raise £7,500 for the London Taxi Drivers’ Charity for Children and £2,500 for a children’s community project in Tanzania. You can follow the cab drivers progress on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/groups/Cabbies doKilli and donations can be made via
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ jacquline-parr1
DRAGON TAXIS VALE OF GLAMORGAN CELEBRATES HUGE £5,000 DONATION TO TY HAFAN
Dragon Taxis, Vale of Glamorgan, has donated £5,000 to Welsh children’s hospice, Ty Hafan. The campaign, launched in July, saw Dragon Taxis donate a percentage of all app bookings across the Vale of Glamorgan to the charity. Ty Hafan, one of the UK’s leading paediatric palliative care charities, offers comfort, care and support to life-limited children, young people and their families. This care is delivered at the hospice, in the community and in people’s homes, so that families can make the most of the time they have left together. It
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costs just over £12,000 to keep the hospice open for just one day. The £5,000 donation, which will help fund a weekend’s stay for a family at
the hospice, has come directly from Dragon Taxis, so that the 120 local Vale licensed driver partners aren’t out of pocket. Richard Davies from Dragon Taxis said: “We wanted to give something back to our local community and support a local charity that really does make a
difference.The pandemic has been a very tough time for everybody, but especially charities, which have seen a drop in donations, because of the public’s cash struggles. “We’re incredibly proud to be able to support funding a full weekend’s stay at the hospice for a child in need.”
DECEMBER 2021
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