Tag: Love Home Swap

Home Swap To Save Homeless Hermit Crabs

Stuart Mitchell

Anyone that’s watched David Attenborough will know that hermit crabs are home swappers! Regularly exchanging their seashell homes with other crabs as they outgrow them, they appreciate the value of trying out a new home. But sadly, due to human-created plastic waste on beaches, hundreds of thousands of hermit crabs are mistakenly – and fatally – swapping their shell condos for discarded plastic containers. To celebrate World Oceans Day on June 8th global home swapping platform Love Home Swap partnered with the ocean conservation charity Sea-Changers to create home swaps…

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Love Home Swap Launches #distrAKTion Challenge To Raise Money For Albert Kennedy Trust

Stuart Mitchell

In celebration of the UK’s LGBTQ+ History Month, a month that aims to excite, inform, and celebrate everything about the diverse LGBTQ+ community, employees at the global home-swapping platform Love Home Swap are raising money for the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) by encouraging others to take part in the #distrAKTion challenge. The #distrAKTion challenge is split into 3 simple steps – participate, nominate and donate! Simply share a photo of yourself doing your hobby, nominate 5 friends to share their hobby, then donate £5 to akt via the charity fundraising page.   From bird-spotting to learning a new language or playing an instrument…

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Love Home Swap Announces Albert Kennedy Trust As Chosen Charity

Stuart Mitchell

Every year employees of the global home-swapping platform Love Home Swap choose a charity partner to financially support. Throughout the rest of 2020 and 2021 the business will be raising funds for the Albert Kennedy Trust (akt). Set up in 1989, akt is a voluntary organisation based in England that supports those aged 16-25 of the LGBTQ+ community who are experiencing homelessness or other housing challenges. The charity helps young people find safe homes and can support with things like employment, education and training in an environment that celebrates LGBTQ+…

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