In the last financial year, Liftshare has experienced a period of growth. Not only have we launched new products and added awards to our cabinet, we’ve had new members join our team. Liftshare prides itself on its staff, and we’re delighted to introduce you to our five newest team members. We asked them to tell us a little about themselves, along…

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Wolseley UK is the country’s largest supplier of building materials, with trade customers, such as plumbers and builders, accounting for the largest proportion of its sales. They launched their Liftshare Scheme in November 2018 at their headquarters in Warwick.     By producing a Scoping Smart Mobility report Liftshare identified that 65% of Wolseley…

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the responsibility an organisation has for the impact of its decisions and activities on society and the environment. Whilst it used to be simply a “nice to have”, today, CSR is expected of all organisations. And it is one of the reasons that many of the UK’s biggest businesses are working with Liftshare. Diageo…

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According to a recent report, London is the most congested city in the UK, with drivers spending an average of 73 hours a year stuck in traffic – that’s almost two working weeks, just staring through the windscreen in a motionless car. No surprises there though, we all knew London would come top. What’s more interesting is the other…

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  The UK census in 2011 gave us a fascinating insight into ourselves as a nation: ethnicity, religion, home-ownership, education… but did you also notice the dire statistics about our car usage? In particular, the huge number of empty car seats being driven around the country every day. In total, there are 36 million empty car seats on the UK’s roads…

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Liftshare founder Ali Clabburn has appeared on the wonderful Inspirational Creatives podcast, in which host Ben asks Ali about the company’s origins back at his university campus in 1998, and how it grew from there to include – at present – over 430,000 members and a reach across the whole UK and beyond. You can find Ali’s episode through…

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My experience of the Financial Times Sharing Economy European Summit felt like an intense but exciting ‘call to action’. Two days before the summit, I was about to sign a contract for a new job that I wasn’t really going to enjoy, when Ali Clabburn offered me a job at Liftshare, the UK’s most…

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