# Travel agent to donate up to 10% of holiday bookings to charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/11/21/travel-agent-donate-10-holiday-bookings-charities/
- Published: 2014-11-21T07:02:34+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

West Yorkshire-based independent travel agency has pledged to donate up to 10% of
the value of each holiday booked to good causes. In addition it will donate £250
for every person it sends off to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

It has just begun to draw up a list of charities to feature on its website for holiday-
makers to choose from.

## Travel donations

The company will donate 5% of the cost of all brochure holidays booked, and 10% 
of the cost of all tailor-made trips (excluding flights) to the travellers’ charity
of choice.

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Since Footloose also specialises in organising guided climbs to the top of Africa’s
highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, it will also make a £250 donation to a charity of
the traveller’s choice for each booking to climb with Footloose.

Andrew McDougall, director of Footloose, explained:

> “Each year, individuals and groups of friends set out on a climb of a life-time,
> to scale Mount Kilimanjaro, and many of them do so in the name of charity. From
> now on, when they book their climb with Footloose, we will make a £250 donation
> to a charity of their choice from our panel.
> “Unsurprisingly, the charities we have already spoken to are keen to join the 
> initiative and we look forward to hearing from others wishing to join our panel.”

## More charities sought

Charities already selected to benefit include Just a Drop, Wildlife Vets International
and Yorkshire Cat Rescue.

Sara Atkinson, founder of [Yorkshire Cat Rescue](http://yorkshirecatrescue.org/),
said:

> “This is an amazing initiative and one which could help us raise much needed funds
> to care for an ever growing number of homeless cats and kittens… If just 10 people
> booked a typical family holiday with Footloose and nominated us, that could mean
> an amazing £2,000 donation, or more, to Yorkshire Cat Rescue.”

If your charity wishes to be considered for the list contact [in**@**********co.uk](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/11/21/travel-agent-donate-10-holiday-bookings-charities/Andrew%20McDougall, director of Footloose).

 

_Photo: [Mount Kilimanjaro](http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-188637683/stock-photo-snow-on-top-of-mount-kilimanjaro-in-amboseli.html)
by Volodymyr Burdiak on Shutterstock.com_

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