Win a Latitude Festival VIP upgrade for 2
Heading to Henham Park this summer to get your fix of music, comedy and the arts? We’ve got a prize draw that you’ll love!
Liftshare are working with the gang at Latitude to give one lucky winner a pair of VIP upgrades for their tickets. The upgrade will give you…
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They say money can’t buy you happiness, but we know a way you can keep money in your pocket and put a smile on your face!
By sharing car journeys, you can cut your travel costs in half… or more!
Liftshare’s handy savings calculator shows you how much you can save by filling empty car seats with…
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There is thought to be over £3.5 trillion worth of idle human and physical resources in the world. From empty rooms and spare seats in cars to over-purchasing food and storing useful tools.
Global Sharing Week takes over the world from 16th-22nd June 2019, and sharing is simpler than you think.
To give you some inspiration, here’s a pick of our favourite…
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This year’s World Environment Day, hosted by the UN on the 5th June, focusses in on toxic air pollution.
Air pollution damages the population daily, and with the facts available, we can’t pretend it isn’t happening. What we also can’t deny, is that humans are the root cause of the air pollution responsible for 4.2 million deaths a year.
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Fancy sprucing up your home this spring? Perhaps you’d like to treat yourself to a new spring wardrobe? However you’d like to spend a £100 voucher for John Lewis, we have the prize draw for you!
Win!
To win 1 x £100 John Lewis voucher, form a Liftshare team…
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Congratulations! You’ve passed your driving test and you’ve been saving for months to buy your first car to celebrate… and then you realise that getting on the road is going to cost you a lot more than the initial outlay. With the average cost of comprehensive car insurance for drivers between 18 and 20 falling just shy of £1000…
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Can we let you in on our New Year wish? You promise you won’t tell anyone? Well it’s quite simple, really. We’d like you to make a small change in 2019.
You see, a small change can make a big difference. What’s the small change? We’d like you to try sharing…
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We are delighted to announce that, thanks to our 51,000 confirmed sharers, Liftshare has just hit a HUGE milestone saving of 700 million miles! Just for context, that’s the same number of miles as travelling to the moon and back 14, 650 times and just shy of the distance from Earth to Saturn! More astonishingly, that means…
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We all know driving is an expensive business but, unless you live in London or Durham, at least you don’t have to pay a congestion charge… yet!
Yes, 15 years after London introduced its notorious charge, the historic city of Bath is considering following suit. Exeter is mulling it over too. Oh, and so is Reading.
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I know… we do sometimes focus on how much drivers can benefit from Liftshare. (It’s because there are about 11 drivers on our roads for every one passenger!) But if you think you need a car to use Liftshare, think again. Liftshare wouldn’t work without passengers!
Maybe you haven’t passed your test, or you can’t afford a car yet,…
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We’re big fans of the train, because we’re all about sustainable travel. But rail strikes, fare hikes, overcrowded carriages and cancelled services can challenge even our love for them sometimes.
So we weren’t too shocked to learn that just 23 percent of passengers now trust train travel companies. Meanwhile, rail fares are predicted to rise by 3.2% in…
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Don your best shades, get the sliders ready and slap that sunscreen on, because the UK in the midst of a scorching 3-month heatwave! We don’t want you to get hot under the collar, but Liftshare can help you save up to £250 during that time.
On average, our regular sharers save over £1000 per year by sharing their commute, so…
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We are the gift that keeps on giving! Not only do our Latitude Liftsharer’s get access to the Liftshare priority parking giving them easy access to the festival site, we’re also giving you the chance to grab a Liftshare goody bag and win £200!
Find the Liftshare team at the…
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“If only there were a way to make your commute quicker, cheaper – and perhaps even a little more fun, too?” says Inchcape, in their recent report. Both Inchcape and Liftshare know there is one simple answer – car sharing. And with 18.6 million drivers in the UK commuting alone, there is certainly potential to share.
The report and…
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Last month saw huge timetable changes across Northern and Govia Thameslink Railway services, affecting customers from London and the South East to Newcastle, Nottingham, Merseyside and Greater Manchester.
Affected railway stations included:
Govia Thameslink Railway
London Overground
South western railway
South eastern
Despite a disrupted service, the office of Rail and Road, claims that the usage of these train lines is on the…
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Splashed all over today’s news is the costly information that petrol prices are on the rise… again! The RAC says this is the biggest increase in the last 18 years – going up by 6p per litre in May alone.
We know that for many, there is little alternative to driving, which means many will feel the pinch – This is…
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Here at Liftshare, we’re on a mission to solve the world’s mobility problems through sharing – you heard us, the world! Our goal is to tackle the commute and save one billion car miles by taking them off the road!
In the year of our 20th birthday, we have reached 500 million miles saved – so we have a huge…
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The Football League and Liftshare recently signed a partnership deal to help get football fans across the UK travelling to home and away games for less.
It’s predicted that fans will collectively travel 450,000 miles throughout season 15/16, and that means a lot of train tickets, petrol bills and other travel expenses supporters will need to…
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Liftshare launched its official iOS and Android apps earlier this year, and they were quickly named the Guardian’s top travel app for February 2015. A few months later, and we’ve just been named the top must-have travel app again – this time by The Carloan Warehouse.
The team praised our apps highly, and added, “Liftshare is a…
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