# Charitable Travel to generate unrestricted funds for charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/01/27/charitable-travel-to-generate-unrestricted-funds-for-charities/
- Published: 2020-01-27T16:47:35+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Social enterprise Charitable Travel is to launch in April this year offering travel
agency and tour operator services and donating a share of its income to charities
that partner with it.**

The Charitable Travel brand has been developed by the not-for-private-profit social
enterprise Fundraising Futures CIC. It will offer an array of worldwide holidays,
hotels, flights and ancillary products.

It has begun approaching charities who wish to partner with it in terms of inviting
their supporters to book with them and generate a donation. 

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Customers booking with [Charitable Travel](http://www.charitable.travel) will be
able to donate to the charity of their choice. In addition, as a social enterprise,
the company will donate surplus profits to support disadvantaged communities in 
destinations where tourism is key to the local economy.

 

![Charitable Travel logo](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2020/01/charitable-
travel-logo.jpg)

 

## Melissa Tilling

Charitable Travel is led by Chief Executive Melissa Tilling, a fellow of the Institute
of Travel & Tourism, who founded the CIC after stepping down as managing director
of leading tour operator Funway Holidays in August last year, after 11 years with
the company.

She has over 30 years’ experience leading and delivering holiday and short breaks
to UK travel consumers.

She told UK Fundraising why she set up the enterprise, saying: “I have enjoyed my
commercial career immensely but now want to devote my travel industry future to 
working hard offering our travel-for-good message.

“My intention is to blend commercial success with underlying compassion, selling
a wide variety of quality and competitively priced travel products as a way of fundraising
to benefit charity and giving rather than simply to create private profit”.

 

![Tropical sunset - photo: Unsplash](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2020/01/
holiday-sunset-1024x768.jpg)

_A different way to raise funds for your charity_

 

Tilling’s preparations for working with charities includes undertaking a Masters
in charity management, hence her recognition of the value to charities of earning**
unrestricted income**.

She is keen to point out that the company is **not an overseas challenge event provider**.

Charitable Travel will launch as part of national independent travel consortium 
[Worldchoice](http://www.thetravelnetworkgroup.co.uk), which will ensure “a wide
selection of quality and value travel products… and that the financial security 
needed when booking a holiday is assured.”

 

![Decorated boats on the shore of an island in the sun. Photo: Unsplash](https://
wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2020/01/island-boats-on-beach-unsplash-1024x614.jpg)

_Travelling for good, with Charitable Travel_

 

## Social enterprise model

Charitable Travel has been recognised pre-launch as a certified member of [Social Enterprise UK](http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk)
and is seemingly the first ‘mainstream’ travel company member to be certified by
SEUK in the UK.

Charitable Travel also holds an ‘Aspiring’ Social Enterprise Mark with the international
accreditation body.

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