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Hatton Special School Sensory Room
In August 2024, the charity was contacted by Hatton Special School in Woodford Green Essex asking if we could help them with a new sensory room for the children. We knew the benefit of such a room from dealings with previous schools and so decided to take a look and see if we could help. […]
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LTCFC purchases Communication Boards for Mount Stewart School
In early June this year, the charity received an appeal from Mount Stewart School in Kenton for help with playground equipment for the children in the special needs unit. They desperately needed some pictorial communication boards to be installed around the playground. When we went to visit the school, the Head Teacher explained that these […]
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LTCFC furnishes Sensory Room for Leverton School
On Monday 30th June the charity placed a plaque in memory of our late colleague Bob Bush on the new sensory room at Leverton School in Waltham Abbey. The school had appealed to us for help in fitting out a new sensory room for the children as their old room had fallen into disrepair and […]
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LTCFC purchases Summer Playhouse for Crofton School
On Wednesday 14th May, the LTCFC placed a plaque on the brand new summer playhouse at Crofton Special Needs Primary School in Bromley. We first had an appeal from them earlier in the year asking if we would consider taking their children on one of our taxi outings. We visited the school to discuss the idea […]
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LTCFC Brings Joy to Broadfield Primary School’s SEN Department
Following our successful Mad Hatters Tea Party, the London Taxi Drivers’ Charity for Children (LTCFC) had the pleasure of extending our community impact by donating sensory toys to the Special Educational Needs (SEN) department at Broadfield Primary School in North London. These toys have found their perfect home in the hands of eager young learners. […]
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LTCFC donates Toys and Storage to St Andrew’s Pre-school Edgware
Our Honorary Secretary Malcolm Shaffron and Projects Organiser Alan Cohen MBE recently went along to the St Andrews Pre-school in Edgware to present the storage bins and toys that the fund had donated, they also affixed plaques to the bins. Pre-school Leader Nalini Thakur said “It was our pleasure and honour to receive you and […]
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LTCFC GET SUPER SID ON THE MOVE
We received an appeal for a 3 year old boy called Sidney who suffers from Type 1 SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) a genetic neuromuscular condition that causes muscle weakness and wasting due to the loss of motor neurons, which has confined him to a wheelchair. This illness obviously comes with a multitude of other complications, […]
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LTCFC GET SEBASTIAN ROLLING
In late summer 2023, the LTCFC were contacted by the parents of a young lad by the name of Sebastian, who needed our help. Sebastian, who is now 4 years old, had suffered a stroke in utero and had developed hydrocephalus. When he had his first shunt inserted, he unfortunately caught an infection and was […]
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LTCFC helps to Get Ziyon Walking
In summer 2020, the LTCFC were contacted by the parents of a young lad by the name of Ziyon who was born with Diplegic Cerebral Palsy, a disability characterized by frequent spasms which affects the joints and tensing of the leg muscles reducing the overall range of motion. Ziyon’s parents climbed Mount Snowdon in order […]
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LTCFC Special Garden Project at Norwood
On Sunday 15th May, the LTCFC taxi drivers and volunteers descended on the Norwood Buckets & Spades Centre in Finchley armed with their gardening equipment and a huge assortment of flowers, bulbs, shrubs, evergreens, and trees. From 9am until 2pm our “ground force” team worked extremely hard clearing dead plants and stinging nettles from all […]