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Awarding Achievement
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Top to bottom; Aftab Malik/Chris Tar- rant, The Famous 73, Mick Derby, Direct Taxis of Exmouth,
and Carolyn Bath 3
This category we believe is always worth running, mainly because there is so much bad or mediocre press about our industry – we’re fans of blowing our guys’ collective trum- pets as often as possible!
And why not, especially when this year’s achieve- ments have spread across so many diversi- fied areas of the trade, such as industry training (no, not a dirty word! Talk to Unite Taxi Educa- tion about that; they’ve put licence holders through the BTEC and NVQ in their thousands). Then there is the magni-
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fying glass hovering over companies and drivers who individually have achieved a particularly high standard of service: check out the Bristol cab- bies from our April edition, and Value Cabs of Salisbury who yet again have clocked up awards for their high standards. Also in May it was Dudley, Wat- ford and Sheffield’s drivers and firms of the year that were awarded; then in August we featured Carolyn Bath, chosen by Lincs C.C. as Driver of the Year. In fact in June we reported that Exmouth company Direct Taxis received Best Customer Service category from the Exmouth Business Awards. You cannot get any better than these special licence holders, which is why we wanted to include them all.
Reading driver raises over £30,000 for local charities
Gold standard certificates for 73 Bristol cabbies
Derby from Derby goes extra mile
Best customer service directed at Exmouth firm
Children swing vote for Sleaford taxi driver award
INDEX TO HIGHLIGHTED STORIES JANUARY
WINNER (1)
APRIL JUNE JUNE
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AUGUST(5) p. 38 p.34 p. 34 p. 34 p. 14
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However, as with any award situation there is usually a winner, and a runner-up or two. In this group we felt that the runner-up was the Derby cabbie in the June edition, Mick Derby who was up for a Com- munity Champions Award for going the extra mile for elderly and disabled people from a local hous- ing complex. In fact, most of the residents will travel with no other... there’s all the accolade one needs. So - the winner in this year’s Awarding category we felt had to be the Reading driver featured back in our January edition, hackney carriage driver Aftab Malik, who gained the Community Champion award for his unstinting charity work – having devoted over 15 years and amassing more than £30,000 for char- ity. You name it: half marathons, parachute jumps, sponsored walks, even walking over coals – Mr Malik has done the lot to raise dosh for worthwhile causes. No doubt he’ll continue doing all these things and more for the next 15 years. Which raises another regular department in PHTM, and that is the liter- ally hundreds of licence holders, companies and other industry-related folk who appear every month in our Charity Corner. There just is not enough room to feature all of these selfless, generous people. Below is the story we reported on in January’sedition on page 38.
READING DRIVER WINS COMMUNITY CHAMPION AWARD
This year’s award for Community Champion went to a man who has worked tirelessly over the past 15 years to raise more than £30,000 for charity. Hackney carriage driv- er Aftab Malik, from West Reading, has done everything from walking over coals, sponsored walks to abseils and parachute jumps, for a range of
causes.
He told getreading: “I started with a spon- sored walk and after I thought it was too easy just walking to raise money so I decided to do something more daring.” His next chal- lenge is the Reading Half Marathon in March 2013.
Aftab has been no stranger to winning awards over the last
15 years – in 2010 he was given the Mayor’s Award in the Reading Sports Personality of the Year, yet when talk- ing about his work he remained as modest as ever.
He said: “I can’t believe it. When I saw everyone who was up for the award I didn’t think I was even up to their standard. I feel very privileged.”
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