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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Beth Lindop

Liverpool FC legends back cabbie's bid to help region's most vulnerable kids

Two LFC legends joined forces with a big-hearted Liverpool cabbie today in a bid to support hundreds of disadvantaged children across Merseyside.

John Aldridge and Alan Kennedy teed off at Lee Park Golf Club, in Childwall, this morning as they took part in the Liverpool Taxi Drivers Children in Care Outing Fund's (LTDCICOF) 31st annual charity golf tournament. The fund was set up in 1985 by cabbie Bernie Buxton, from Stockbridge Village, who initially set out to put a smile on the faces of children in care in Liverpool and the surrounding areas.

The organisation has been coordinating trips for some of the region's most vulnerable young people for the past 38 years and is estimated to have helped more than 10,000 children since its foundation. Bernie told the ECHO : "It all started in 1985, when there was another organisation that used to take blind children on a day out, and I started thinking about underprivileged children too.

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