National liftshare Day: 9^th June 2008

This year National liftshare Day (NLSD) will be taking place on Monday 9^th June

National liftshare Day aims to raise the profile of carsharing and encourage and enable more people give it a try.

Here's WHY companies, councils and organisations should get involved
Here's WHY individuals should get involved
Here's HOW companies, councils and organisations can get involved
Here's HOW individuals can get involved
Promotional Materials
Links and Banners
Events
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Here's WHY companies, councils and organisations should get involved

NLSD is a vital marketing tool in making any car share scheme a success. Car sharing helps you in the following areas:

Meeting travel plan targets
Meeting CO₂ reduction targets
Saving money in car park management
Corporate Social Responsibility
Business continuity planning
Increases employment catchment areas
Helps to alleviate social exclusion

Here's WHY individuals should get involved

Carsharing can be used for any type of journey at any time making it the cheapest and most flexible form of transport around.
Saves you money on petrol costs
Helps you do your bit for the environment
Increases employment opportunities
Makes boring journeys more sociable
You can be chauffer driven!!

This year we are going to make it easier than ever get involved with NLSD so you'd be crazy not to take advantage.

Here's HOW companies, councils and organisations can get involved

If you have a car share scheme National liftshare Day is the perfect opportunity to promote it either internally to staff and colleagues, or externally to the general public. We've developed a number of tools to assist you in promoting your carsharing scheme to your target audience which can be found on your Monitoring Pages.

Check out the Marketing Toolkit which is available from your Monitoring Pages and get some inspiration.
Keep an eye on the newsletters and www.nationalliftshareday.org over the next few months for more information.
Contact your Client Account Manager on 08700 780225 for ideas and support.

If you don't have your own carshare scheme but would like to encourage carsharing between your colleagues and customers why not try some of the steps below.

Set up a prominent link to www.liftshare.com on your website, enabling people in your community to register their journeys free of charge.
Promote carsharing using our Email to colleagues and encourage them make 9th June the day they try carsharing.
You could try and get an article in your in-house magazine or company newsletter. We've put together a draft article which might help inspire you.
Generate some positive PR for your company by shouting about the fact you are encouraging car sharing. We've put together a template Press Release which you can use as a basis.
Set up a carshare scheme for your organisation or community by visiting www.liftsharesolutions.com.

Here's HOW individuals can get involved

Register your journey and find someone to travel with.
Tell your friends / family and colleagues about liftshare with our Tell a Friend facility.
Promote carsharing using our NLSD posters and leaflets which can be downloaded for free.
Encourage your employer to do more to promote carsharing in the work place. They can find out more information about our services from www.liftsharesolutions.com.

Promotional Materials

Posters

Download the poster (pdf)
If you can help us in raising awareness of NLSD please download our NLSD posters and display them. Suitable places might include: work places, reception areas, local libraries, canteens etc. Please display responsibly and wherever possible please try and print to recycled paper.

Leaflets

National liftshare Day leaflet - reverse

Download the Leaflet (pdf)
Please help us to raise awareness of carsharing by giving out NLSD leaflets to friends, family and colleagues who you think might be interested. Please distribute responsibly and wherever possible please try and print to recycled paper.

Links and Banners

Why not put a link to this page (http://www.liftshare.org/nlsd.asp) on your website? Alternatively you could put one of our National liftshare Day banners on the front of your site, enabling visitors to your site to find out more about the day and how they can get involved.

Download the National liftshare Day logo pack.