CABBIES ATLANTIC ROW

Daren Parr gave an electrifying talk on 31st August of the challenges he and his mates undertook to raise thousands of pounds for the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. Those Atlantic waves looked terrifying!   Read more ...

"Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru back-to-back was nothing - the three of us were tested to our limits with this challenge. We needed to respect and tolerate each other and we just about managed that! 

"The media really followed us and listeners donated and supported us. We spoke to Heart Radio twice from the middle of the Atlantic, which nearly broke me when they got my two grandkids and my wife on the phone!"

After 60 days, rowing 3,200 miles from Lanzarote across the Atlantic ocean, Daren Parr, Bob Barber and Stuart Lockhart made it to Jolly Harbour in Antigua. "The reception we received, after completing the world's toughest rowing race, was absolutely wonderful and made it all worthwhile!"