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Sharing, community and quality of life

When I started yours2share, I didn’t realise that I was starting a social enterprise, I just wanted to help people share stuff. As the number of private syndicates that were helped by yours2share increased, I also became aware that if as the number of partners in a private syndicates increases substantially, it becomes a [...]

Sharing in action

Do you share a house, car, motorhome, boat, aircraft dog, horse or anything else? I’m always looking for examples of sharing in action to blog about on yours2share and, if they are really good and two or more partners are willing to be interviewed, for case studies.  If you are happy to tell me about [...]

Change your world

Sustrans , the sustainable transport charity, is running a novel variation on the “be good” day, by holding a “Change your world” week from the 29th June to the 4th July.  In this case the form of “being good” is agreeing to swap a car journey for another means of transport (walking, cycling or public [...]

yours2share on YouTube

I’ve finally managed to get yours2share‘s video onto YouTube!

If you want to see it in “high definition”, well much better quality, click here.

Sharing cars

I haven’t spent as much time as I’d like on car shared ownership over the last couple of months, but these two snippets arrived in my inbox together today.  First of all a great ad for half, third or quarter shares of a Lotus Esprit V8 and/or Lamborghini Countach Replica Share, it sounds like someone [...]

Jewellery club

I came across another novel sharing site last week, Blubangle is a jewellery club.  For a fee, starting from £14.99 a month, members can use jewellery up to a given “gems” or points value, which when they return it, enables them to take out further jewellery up to the same “gems” value.  The concept is [...]

Converting cars to wombats

I found another interesting car club last week called Wombat car club.  As well as developing car clubs in the Colchester area, Wombat also enables people to convert an existing car to a car club.

There are three stages to this:

1 Finding local people to join in and share your car.  Wombat help with the marketing [...]

Green car websites

I’ve found some excellent green car related websites in the last couple of days and thought I’d share these with you – being a sharing kind of person!

There is WhatGreenCar and the link here is to the page about car clubs, very close to yours2share‘s heart.  And then the similarly named but different TheGreenCarWebsite.

Finally the [...]

Hertz joins car clubs

This article in today’s Independent caught my eye.  I knew car clubs were one of the credit crunch winners and Hertz have obviously decided to join them.  There are also some interesting stats about Streetcar and City Car Club: I didn’t know that Streetcar has several vans as part of the club network.

Streetcar have many [...]

Commonwheels car club

I’ve found a rather unusual car club called Commonwheels. It has cars in several locations: Reading, High Wycombe, Poole, Portsmouth and (soon) Oxford.  When I first found the website, I was surprised as these aren’t the large cities that are the normal locations for car clubs.  I’ve since found out that they are car clubs [...]