Raising Pounds and Losing Pounds for Charity

Three London cab drivers have successfully rowed

London cab drivers Daren Parr 56, Bob Barber 56 and Stuart Lockhart 50 swapped their iconic black taxis for a Scud Ocean Rowing boat and set off from Lanzarote on 3 January to row the 3200 miles across the Atlantic to Antigua. Sixty days later they arrived to a rapturous welcome as they rowed into Jolly Harbour in Antigua accompanied by a flotilla of small boats

Having raised over £13,000 for the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, The Stroke Association and a Tanzanian orphanage, the three cabbies are back on terra firma, having lost a combined total of seventy six pounds in weight!

London cab driver and one of the rowers Daren Parr said of the fundraising challenge, “Nothing could prepare us for this! It was an experience that is very hard to put into words We are just three ordinary guys doing an extraordinary thing and this challenge demonstrates what can be achieved with determined spirit and mental fortitude We likened the experience to doing The Knowledge – it was very tough but is worth doing, it doesn’t discriminate between anyone and no one ever fails, you either complete it or you give up

“We were rowing for an hour with two hours off 24/7 for 60 days and the weather was awful. At one stage we were on a para anchor for three days just waiting for which of the waves (some the size of London town houses)

£18,000

The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was delighted to receive an £18,000 grant from ABF The Soldiers’ Charity to fund its programme of special trips and activities.

ABF The Soldiers’ Charity supports partner charities which improve the wellbeing of armed forces veterans, especially those who are elderly or disabled

The £18,000 grant will go towards the Taxi Charity’s 75th anniversary events including social occasions in the UK as well as trips to Normandy, Belgium and the Netherlands for commemoration services

Brigadier (Ret’d) Peter Monteith, Chief Operating