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1. Ploughing experience into positive change – we talk to our Patron, Travis Frain

   On 22 March 2017, an individual drove a hired car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London, before exiting the vehicle and attacking nearby people with a blade. He killed six people and injured around fifty others. Amongst those injured was Travis Frain, who, at the time, was a 19-year-old university student. Travis recovered from […]

   22/03/2024
2. RAPAID team deploys emergency bandages kit after street stabbing incident

   RAPAID’s mission to install our emergency bandages kits in black cabs throughout UK cities is all about making sure help is at hand wherever and whenever it is needed. And for one of our team, that moment was right outside a hospital when a young man was stabbed following an altercation in the street. Colette […]

   06/03/2024
3. Bandaging Your Tax Blues by Donating Directly to RAPAID

   In a world where emergencies can strike at any time, having access to immediate medical assistance can make all the difference. That’s why we’re donating as many RAPAID kits as possible to taxis up and down the UK to help stop the bleed wherever necessary. And whilst we’re supporting your communities with our life-saving emergency […]

   01/03/2024
4. Plymouth becomes latest city to equip taxi cabs with military grade emergency bandages

   Plymouth has become the latest UK city where taxi cabs will carry life-saving emergency bandages kits designed to stem serious blood loss. This comes after the Oxford based charity RAPAID donated and installed the kits in taxi cabs outside Plymouth railway station this week. The move, which follows the successful roll out in London, Oxford, […]

   01/02/2024
5. 2000 London Black Cabs Now Carry RAPAID

   RAPAID hit a major milestone today as it equipped it’s 2000th London taxi with a life-saving emergency bandage kit, just nine days before the fourth anniversary of the 2019 London Bridge terrorist attack in which two people – Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt – tragically lost their lives. The charity’s founder Alex Chivers presented taxi […]

   11/12/2023
6. RAPAID and British Transport Police Join Forces to #StopTheBleed

   Over the past few months, we’ve been equipping as many of London’s black cabs as possible with our life-saving emergency bandage kits, to enable those on the scene to #stopthebleed following accidents and incidents while they await the first responders. The more kits we install in cabs, the more word spreads that this vital equipment […]

   14/11/2023
7. RAPAID to the rescue – how our emergency bandage kit helped a London cabbie rush to a cyclist’s aid

   For London taxi drivers, who pick up passengers from all across the city—North, East, South, and West—no two days are ever the same. But some are more memorable than others! As cabbies drive around the city in their iconic black cabs, many enjoy chatting to passengers or pointing out landmarks, but sometimes their shift is […]

   27/10/2023
8. How Rapaid Emergency Bandages helped a London cabbie save a woman’s life

   As we go about our daily lives, doing our jobs or running errands, there’s always a possibility that we could encounter an emergency, where our actions could help save a life. In July 2023, this possibility became a reality for Douglas, a London taxi driver who used his on-board RAPAID kit to help a seriously […]

   17/10/2023