🟦 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐛 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲

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) would capsize us. The constant movement makes even the smallest task difficult and after our friends and family the main things we missed was not moving!

“We were totally overwhelmed by the welcome we received in Antigua from 150 people who were in small boats and on the quay side to wave us home. People asked how long it took to get my land legs back  - let me tell you when I got off the boat it felt like I’d drunk twenty pints on an empty stomach, I was staggering all over the place and not able to stand up and fortunately someone handed me a chair. This has been one hell of an adventure and we hope that we may still get some more donations to support our three special charities.

“We are constantly asked what is next? We have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru back to back, now we have joined the small group who have rowed the Atlantic, so we will be taking a year off before we announce our next fundraising challenge. And you can guarantee it will push us to our limits again.”

The three cab drivers still have one huge challenge left, to get the boat back. Disappointingly one of their sponsors has not delivered the promised amount which has left them needing financial help to get the boat back to the UK.

To donate towards the three charities that the row supported visit www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/sarah-barber-124

And to help the cabbies get the boat back please visit www.gofundme.com/f/cabbiesdoatlanticrow 

𝐓𝐀𝐗𝐈 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐓: 

Update……..

A massive thank you to Millcroft Services PLC who not only sponsored us but stepped up to the plate at the end to make up the deficit on our GoFundMe page to get the boat home . 

It’s not the first time they have got behind the “ CabbiesDo “ adventures and the Taxi Charities . One of London’s Top scaffolding companies , family run and built up from scratch . Proud and great  to have them behind us. 

Thank you to everyone who has donated , you can be proud and assured that the money we have raised will go to help the people it is meant for ! We know it will not only help some people , put smiles on faces but will change some people lives for the better. 

Without your support this wouldn’t happen so each and everyone of you can be proud of yourselves too. 

Well done our GoFundMe page is now closed