INNOVATIVE TRAVEL PLATFORM, CHARITABLEBOOKINGS.COM LAUNCHES THE £1 BILLION GLOBAL PLEDGE

DONATE TO YOUR FAVOURITE CHARITY VIA CHARITABLEBOOKINGS.COM AND RECEIVE A WEALTH OF TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE BENEFITS

Give and get back! Travel and Lifestyle platform, CharitableBookings.com is thrilled to announce the exciting launch of the world's largest £1bn travel fundraiser powered by CharitableBookings.com. This is the very first initiative of its kind, as givers get back for free, and by using this groundbreaking platform, become part of reaching the CharitableBookings.com £1 billion travel fundraiser target. You can help to raise £1 billion for charity by uploading proof of your recent donation of £20 to your favourite charity through https://charitablebookings.com/ and givers receive a one-year Premium membership worth £100. Upload proof of a donation worth £50, you will receive a Premium Lifetime membership worth £360. Both memberships offer a wealth of exclusive travel and lifestyle benefits. It truly is the gift that keeps on giving! The memberships are gifted via CharitableBookings.com and can be given to friends and family. The donation is directly sent to charities from local UK hospices to medical institutions. Giving to your favourite charity through CharitableBookings.com has never been so easy and rewarding!  

The process is seamless and free. Privileges are offered by CharitableBookings.com that make it worthwhile to become a Premium member, which affords exclusive benefits, with just over 500,000 hotels in 200 global cities bookable at an average 10 percent lower cost than through a competing travel site. As well as access to wholesale travel rates, Premium membership also offers VIP privileges through hotels, restaurants, spas, pubs and bars, and luxury boutiques, and gives you entry into a monthly luxury prize draw with experiences worth from £100 to over £25,000. 

The launch of the £1 billion Global Pledge puts charities front and centre of every booking The innovative platform, which aims to raise £1 billion within the next decade, delivers money to individual charities that, alone, may not have the reach or visibility to raise their profiles and incomes. Founded by David Johnstone, the CharitableBookings.com platform gives donations to charities each time a member uses its travel booking platform. 

Johnstone explains: “Your school, your hospice, your hospital, will get the cash into their accounts when you book travel through the CharitableBookings.com platform. Your chosen cause benefits directly, and you can be part of doing something amazing. We had the idea to gift Premium memberships as an extra thank you to encourage people to give directly to charity. We've had an incredibly positive response from people who love the idea of being part of something so big and being given a bit extra.” The Global Pledge is designed to supercharge charities in raising unrestricted funds and empower individuals who are raising funds for charity to raise even more. 

Johnstone has a weighty track record in the travel, lifestyle, and luxury sector. A social entrepreneur who started his career in hotel management, he went on to found his own concierge business, ran the private online members' The Renaissance Club, and launched Key-2-Luxury - a concept of corporate gifting by global groups. Johnstone then launched The Global Party, the largest private party in the world, which started with 80 parties in 80 cities in 2011 in aid of over 80 charities. By 2017, the event had transcended to over 263 cities. All the money made from the Global Party events (£4 million) went directly to charities, and that spurred Johnstone into launching CharitableBookings.com as an ongoing fundraising platform. 

This is a business with a social purpose that takes givers on a personal journey uniting individuals in a cause that gives back and moves philanthropy forward. You give something and you get something – it's a perfect circle that benefits donors as well as charities. 

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