Appeals Donations Fundraising Presentations
May 17, 2022 / June 8, 2025 by admin
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 […]
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May 27, 2021 / June 8, 2025 by admin
Founded in 1928, the London Taxi Drivers Charity for Children has assisted many special needs and vulnerable children. The charity is renowned for the taxi outings taking hundreds of children to the seaside. Also, a firm favourite is the Annual Mad Hatters Party at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London. Unfortunately, due to the covid […]
Appeals Donations Fundraising
April 5, 2021 / June 8, 2025 by admin
Last summer, 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 were going to climb Mount Snowdon […]
March 20, 2021 / June 8, 2025 by admin
In January, the LTCFC received an appeal for help from a mother of a young boy suffering from a very severe form of epilepsy. After having 2 very severe seizures that ended in cardiac arrest, where he stopped breathing for several minutes, the A&E department successfully saved this young boy’s life. His next attack resulted […]
September 11, 2020 / June 8, 2025 by admin
As with every year, the beginning of September marks the start of a new school term, and 2020 is no exception. This year however has thrown Covid19 into the mix, with social distancing measures to be upheld and issues surrounding the sharing of equipment. Knowing that this would be a more worrying time than usual […]
August 22, 2020 / June 8, 2025 by admin
Bradley Winfield, 51, has been a London cabbie for fifteen years and has been involved with the London Taxi Drivers’ Charity for Children for fourteen years and for the past 35 years has been a keen herpetologist. Always fascinated by animals, Bradley’s love of reptiles and amphibians started at the age of 16 when he […]
June 16, 2020 / June 8, 2025 by admin
As the surge in demand for food banks increases during the COVID-19 lockdown, the London Taxi Drivers Charity for Children has stepped in to help a food bank in North London With families being made, or facing redundancy or furlough during the pandemic the demand for help from food banks is increasing dramatically and the […]
March 29, 2020 / June 8, 2025 by admin
The Honorary Chairman and the committee of the London Taxi Drivers’ Charity for Children are wishing HRH The Prince of Wales a speedy recovery from the Covid19 Coronavirus. We also send our best wishes to HRH The Duchess of Cornwall as they self-isolate at their home in Scotland.
February 23, 2020 / June 8, 2025 by admin
Once again we were thrilled to be able to help out our friends at Norwood by partly financing along with two other charities, a ceiling hoist for their Kennedy Leigh Centre. This hoist will enable the staff to more easily transfer the immobile children to and from various areas around the play room. Our Honorary […]
June 18, 2019 / June 8, 2025 by admin
Following an appeal from Rocky’s Therapy Garden, we have donated £3,500 to assist in giving Rocky, who has Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML), a safe outdoor space to play. We have donated the funds so that Rocky can have a climbing frame and a water feature in his garden along with 20 tonnes of topsoil, 400 […]
