Football away travel can be incredibly fun. You get together with other dedicated fans and embark on an epic road trip to show support for your favourite team, while making a day of it with food, drink and endless amounts of banter. But it’s also expensive. The Football League understood that fans of all 72 clubs were travelling thousands of…

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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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The Football League and Liftshare signed a nationwide deal to bring cheaper match day travel to fans of all 72 clubs, and throughout season 15/16 we’ll be working with supporter groups and fan sites to help get their communities car sharing to games and saving big cash on football travel. As part of the deal, we launched an…

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Liftshare and the Football League recently signed a nationwide deal to bring cheaper match day travel to fans of all 72 clubs, and Preston North End is one of the teams officially involved. Together with the FL, we’ve set up Get to the Game, a…

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Travel and football go hand-in-hand. Whether you’re crossing town to reach your favourite club’s stadium for another thrilling match, or you’ve organised an away game road trip, there many reasons why car sharing can help dedicated fans save big cash during each fixture. But the saving potential doesn’t stop at travel – far from it in fact! Here are five sharing…

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Liftshare’s rugby partner Wasps are gearing up for their last home game of the season against Leicester Tigers on Saturday 9th May. All tickets have now sold out for the match at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena with a record 32,600 stubs, and the team is expecting great support in the stands on the big day. The stakes are certainly high for…

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Commuting can be a pain, especially when you’re tired, the train or bus is packed, kids have music blasting from their phone and all you want to do is be home away from the noise and stress of the working day. British Transport Police chief constable Paul Crowther has said the “casual thuggery” of sports hooligans has been disrupting travel for…

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Liftshare has teamed up with Aviva Premiership rugby club Wasps to help bring cheaper, greener travel to thousands of fans across the UK. The team’s car share scheme will debut at the club’s game against the Exeter Chiefs on Sunday 26th April at Ricoh Arena in Coventry. When we heard that the London-based club was having to move…

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Gareth Kane, author of The Green Executive and Green Jujitsu, points out how many businesses try to tackle employee engagement… “The generic approach is like boxing – trying to bludgeon the opponent into submission.” Attempting to embed a sustainable culture into your business through bombarding employees with ‘green’ emails, instructions and notices, which have no real relevance to their working lives,…

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You’re not being a lone ranger, are you? Because this is liftshare Week – and we hope thousands more people will discover the benefits of car-sharing over these five days. And one of the top benefits – according to liftshare members – is the great (and lasting) friendships that arise from car-sharing. Over two-thirds of our members tell us that one…

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