Liftshare’s Christmas charity
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and it is also the time of charity and giving. This festive season, Liftshare will be supporting a local charity: Your Own Place. Your Own Place was established by Rebecca White in 2013. The charity was set-up to help find innovative and creative solutions to preventing homelessness and a life…
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On Sunday 13th May the Liftshare Ladies donned their colourful Liftshare tees to run the annual 5k at the Norfolk Showground to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
Race for Life is a series of events, from a 5 or 10k run to a muddy obstacle course, a hike or half marathon, all in aid of raising money for research…
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The Spice Girls were in the charts, Tony Blair was Prime Minister, Armageddon was the top blockbuster, and the iMac was the cream of the computer crop. Things have changed since 1998 – but have Liftshare?
Liftshare launched in 1998. Our mission then was as it is now; to ensure that everyone has someone to share a car with. The…
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Uber have filed official court papers against Transport For London’s private hire regulations this week.
The new regulations were introduced earlier this year after a wide-ranging consultation with taxi and minicab firms. It was the first major change to private hire rules since they were introduced, and were aimed at ending the long-standing feud between the ridesharing firm and London’s black…
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Taking inspiration from James Corden’s now infamous Carpool Karaoke series, 80 year old Alzheimers sufferer Teddy McDermott and his son Simon have filmed their own videos of the same ilk – and raised over £75,000 for charity in doing so!
Teddy has been a singer all of his life, and is a former Butlins Red Coat. Known as the ‘Songaminute…
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Oxfam Stewards provide volunteer staff at the UK’s top festivals whilst raising vital funds for famine relief, emergency aid, and injustice causes across the globe.
Today’s the day that volunteer applications open, and the Oxfam Stewards Liftshare Group launches. Stewards will be travelling together and sharing lifts to and from festivals and events all over the country, in order to help…
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Liftshare and global charity Oxfam’s festivals team have announced a partnership that will provide car share schemes to their volunteers throughout the 2015 festival season.
Oxfam Stewards provide a professional stewarding service at many of the UK’s largest and most popular music festivals. Stewards fulfil roles such as ticket-checking, wrist-banding, fire-towers, information points, arena and campsite patrols…
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Every so often we come across a charity or sharing site with such an incredible story to tell that we simply have to make noise about it, and that’s exactly why we decided to highlight the wonderful FRANK Water today.
The charity was formed in 2005 after CEO and founder Kate Alcott contracted dysentery from drinking dirty water in India. Since then Katie has made…
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Sharing is charitable by nature. The concept of allowing strangers access to what we own or don’t need might sound unfathomable to those used to the concept of ownership, but in these days of spiralling living costs and a move away from owning physical products, the world is waking up to the many benefits of sharing.
In our quest to…
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