7th June 2023

Share your commute using Liftshare

What is it?

Liftshare is a scheme that we have launched across NHS Derby and Derbyshire as part of our wider green agenda. It is available to staff at Derbyshire Community Health Services to help reduce our impact on the environment by reducing the number of people driving the same journey alone, to ease parking pressures and to cut fuel costs.

Liftshare is available to everyone, drivers, and non-drivers alike. It helps you find someone within NHS Derby and Derbyshire who lives close by to easily share your journey to work with, offering the opportunity to make travelling to and from work easier, cheaper, and more sociable.

Important to note – If you decide to sign up, you don’t have to share all the time! Lift sharing is flexible, and you decide when you want to share. You will also only be able to see and share lifts with people that work within NHS Derby and Derbyshire.

Liftshare is free to use and enables you to find others on your commute route to easily share the journey. You can either take turns driving, offer someone a lift and split the fuel costs or look for someone to give you a lift.

Benefits

  • Save money! Share the cost of your commute with your carshare partner 
  • Save the planet! Sharing your commute will reduce our carbon footprint 
  • Connect and collaborate with your colleagues

How much can you save when you Liftshare?

Here's some interesting facts and figures which can be achieved if you were to share your commute *:

  • 2,610 miles off the road
  • 1000kg of CO2e  saved
  • Save £1,044 in fuel costs per year

How to get involved

It's easy to download the Liftshare Companion app from Google Play Store or IOS App Store. Visit the Liftshare website to sign-up and start sharing journeys.

FAQs

Answers to frequently asked questions can be found on the Liftshare website.

*Please note, these figures are based on the following assumptions:

  • Two people lift sharing

  • Cost saving calculated with fuel priced at 20p per mile

  • An average one-way commute of 10 miles

  • Lift sharing 5 times per week

  • 261 working days in a year