c-change trust news (5 months ago)

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9th June 2008

The travel to give team – choose a local holiday or a cruise and they will give 5% of your holiday price to the charity of your choice as well as benefiting the c-change trust + Carbon Charity to Benefit from Holiday Bookings!

Travel2Give has been launched by Scottish Travel Company, The Travel Division, who are based in Ayrshire. Its aim is simple - to create substantial donation funding for Charities throughout the UK from the  holiday bookings of their competitors.

A surprising aspect of the programme is a launch partnership struck with the ‘c-change trust’ whereby every Charity affiliate who books a holiday can allocate a percentage of the donation their holiday creates to the Trust.

Ken Robb, Managing Director of Travel2Give, explains how the programme works: “We create a donation from a holiday booking by taking low profits, and we have convinced 15 leading tour operators and cruiselines to add a donation of their own. A typical family holiday could raise over £40, and with some holidays the figure might be as high as £100 – so the funding possibilities are really substantial. We wanted to include a complementary carbon charity to reflect changing consumer attitudes. The words ‘carbon offset’ are gradually coming into the traveller’s mindset, so we looked for a carbon charity which could become a major beneficiary, using a substantial part of the funding Travel2Give can create to deliver tangible offsetting. We selected the c-change trust as they offered strategic thinking, education and awareness in addition to offsets.’