Article tags: taxi

1. Happy Birthday to The Flying Crane
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... year, which would have been spent on taxi fares and couriers if we had not offered our service. Our thanks goes once again to the staff, pupils and parents of All Hallows School for their generous donation.  ...

2. Saving lives isn't always blue lights and sirens
(News/News about Freewheelers EVS)

... as a taxi may have done — leaving the delivery on the doorstep and moving to his other two calls, he reported back to the co-ordinator. On speaking to the originating hospital, the nursing staff there ...

3. Interview with Andy Smith
(About Us/Interviews with Freewheelers Volunteers)

... Kate and Daniel for indulging me to allow me to spend the time to be a Freewheeler, for the taxi service to allow me to collect and pass on the duty bike from other riders and to apologise for the lost ...

4. Starting A New Blood Bike Group
(About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer)

... our costs but is still significantly less than the hospital would have to pay a commercial courier or taxi firm. Charging it also enables us to reclaim VAT - some other groups fulfill the VAT requirement ...

5. Our Financial Savings to the NHS
(Finance/Financial Information)

... first is to calculate the cost of a delivery were it to be made by a taxi. The second is to calculate what it would cost the NHS to set up an identical motorcycle-based courier service with the ability ...

6. Our Service to the NHS
(About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer)

... part in saving peoples lives and we ride to save the NHS money that would otherwise be wasted on taxis or expensive couriers, but more than anything else we ride because we love it. In 2008, in recognition ...

7. Biker Service Saves Lives
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

... money where they would previously have had to use a taxi or an ambulance. "It means response times will be quicker and the dedicated Bath bike will be able to do more work for us," said Daniel Messom, ...

8. Angels On Two Wheels
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

... effectively than any alternatives." The service will also reduce delivery costs for the RUH as it eliminates the need to send items by taxi. All riders are trained by the Institute of Advanced Motorcyclists ...

9. Riding For Life
(Uncategorised Content)

... safely and promptly. If our service did not exist hospitals would be forced to use a costly and potentially slow taxi, or commercial courier. Freewheelers EVS is run entirely by volunteers. All our riders ...