The theme of this year’s National Liftshare Week was: ‘Turning journey matches into sharers’. We know adding journeys to Liftshare – and asking our members to keep them up-to-date – leads to more sharing. So, we used this year’s event (which ran from 18-24th September) to encourage people to add, check and update their journeys. Great news – We saw…

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For Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 – 15 to 21 May – we explored how lift-sharing has helped Liftshare members with mental wellbeing by saving money and having companionship on journeys. It’s even enabled one member to keep the job they love, which otherwise wouldn’t have been possible.   The cost-of-living crisis rumbles on, and continues to affect us all; From…

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Festival season is well upon us! We’ve already seen phenomenal performances from big names such as Kasabian at Isle of Wight and Ozzy Osbourne at Download but there’s more to come with Solange at Latitude, Liam Gallagher at RiZE and Kendrick Lamar at Reading & Leeds. It’s set to be an amazing summer – not to mention World Cup…

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Since Liftshare.com launched from a student flat in Bristol nearly 18 years ago, lots has changed. The ‘sharing economy’ has become a worldwide phenomenen, James Corden and Peter Kay have made sharing trips cool, and there are now half a million current members and over 700 companies using Liftshare. Not bad, considering it all began when founder Ali Clabburn couldn’t…

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It feels like just yesterday we were tucking into Christmas dinner and ringing in the New Year, but we just checked our calendars to find that we’re over halfway done with January already. Where did the time go? While it’s possible that you’ve already failed your New Year’s resolutions already – let’s face it, they can be really hard to keep…

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Happy new year Liftsharers and fans of money-saving alike! The new year is upon us and it’s likely many of you will have added ‘save more money’ to your resolution list. Let’s be honest; the cost of living isn’t going down any time soon, but that doesn’t mean you can’t break old habits, trim back on non-essential spending and put…

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London. It’s a really expensive place to live – that much is clear, but there are many clever ways to slash everyday living costs in the UK capital that you may not have considered. Savings site Broke in London was founded in 2011 by Manolis Zografakis to help people get by, and we spoke with…

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