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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  If you’re off to Download Festival 2019 have we got the prize draw for you! Liftshare are working with the team at Download to give one lucky winner a pair of VIP upgrades for their tickets. The upgrade will give you and a friend access to the guest area including guest…

filed in: Festivals,Liftshare,Uncategorised | tags: car-share, Donington Park, Download Festival, emission, festival season,

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Liftshare is delighted to announce that, for the second time, they have been awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise for, what the judges called ‘exceptional contributions to the environment’ The award recognises outstanding achievements of UK businesses. Categories for the award are sustainable development, innovation, international trade and promoting opportunity through social mobility. The award marks the second time Liftshare has been…

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We’ve delved into how Liftshare can combat the UK’s parking epidemic, but what about reducing the required spaces of your organisation while saving your business money, too? Surface parking can cost up to £2000 per space to create, with underground car parks stinging £15,000 per space to construct – not taking into account upkeep or rental.

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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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  The excitement of the festive period is over, we’re all on a cranberry sauce come-down and blue Monday is looming. But, fear not! Liftshare have got you covered! We’re giving one lucky winner a year’s cinema pass to Odeon or Cineworld to help you beat the winter blues.

filed in: Uncategorised | tags: 2019, air quality, big difference, car-share, cinema,

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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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  “Driving home for Christmas, I can’t wait to see those faces”. It’s official. It’s Monday 3rd of December and Christmas has begun at Liftshare HQ (although, we admit, the Christmas lights have been hung since the local Christmas lights were switched on in November, complete with Laura’s rendition of ‘Silent Night’). And with Christmas, comes the never-ending expenditure list…

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Liftshare are delighted to announce the achievement of a huge milestone: there are now 50,000 members confirmed as sharing a regular journey through Liftshare.com or one our Liftshare communities. Based on this, together we will save £24, 745, 805, 246, 501, 298 miles,  and reduce CO2 by 48, 437 tonnes over the…

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  There’s a whole boot-load of reasons why people liftshare. And there are no prizes for guessing the biggest incentive! You can save a lot of dosh just by sharing a one-off trip, but if you liftshare on your regular commute you can make some very serious savings… 10 out of 10 to…

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If you live in Oxford, you already know you’ve won one of life’s lotteries. But despite those magnificent colleges, the punts along the river, the famous dreaming spires, you probably live in dread – of making road journeys in the city. Oxford is in danger of coming to a standstill. Although…

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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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“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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