POPPY CABS FINALLY GET THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE

Sky News this afternoon:

Poppy Cabs on Westminster Bridge, celebrating ten years of taking Veterans free of charge, to attend the remembrance services and then back to their home, station or hotel afterwards. 

                  

It’s estimated these Cabby volunteers, make over 1,000 free trips to and from the services. The Poppy Cab service is now spreading and we have recently heard it is up and running this year in Edinburgh and Swindon.  

Below, Poppy Cabs Swindon giving free rides to veterans 

The Poppy Cab initiative was originally started back in 2009, when under the direction of Sir Peter Hendy and dispite appeals, TfL decided to shut down the tube network for maintenance work. It was believed that this action would leave many veterans stranded and unable to make the services. 

A group of concerned London Taxi drives, decided to offer their services to help any veteran who was stranded, get to the cenotaph. It was also decided at that time to extend this free service to pick up veterans and also take them back to mainline rail terminals, plus a selection of clubs and hotels.

Poppy Cabs even getting a mentioned on the BBC this year.

                  

The BBC implying that TfL may have something to do with this... but that’s just not the case.

Poppy Cabs has always been an initiative completely led by Taxi Drivers

The cost of rememberance is great, but the cost of forgetting is much greater!

It appears Poppy Cabs has finally been given the recognition they deserve, by the TV news channels and the press both national and local.... but it’s taken ten years for this recognition. 

But kudos is not the reason the Taxi trade do this.... they do this to say thank you and to say "we will never forget what these veterans have done for us". 

And This From ITV London News :

              

At the going down of the Sun, and in the morning...

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

TAXI LEAKS EXTEA BIT: 
Not only did we get great TV and news paper coverage this year, we also got coverage on radio. LBC gave us a shout out and also posted an article about Poppy Cabs on their website.

There has been some concern in certain quarters over the amount of plastic used in the millions of Poppys sold and disposed of every year. 

There is a recycle scheme available at most supermarkets organised by the British Legion.

From next year the Poppy stem will be make out of a completely biodegradable plastic