The Definitive List of Sharing Sites..?

When I decided to try and compile a list of freecycling sites, I inevitably turned to the good people out there in social media land for their recommendations and ideas, and I was posted links to lots of sites.

But then, the lovely Cat from Freegle, posted me a link to a list they have created of sites that encourage the sharing of items, skills, and lots of other things, that really is WAYYYYY more comprehensive than anything I was attempting to put together, and she very kindly said that I could share it with you lot too!

So, here it is, the hopefully, just might possibly be, definitive list of lovely sharing sites in the UK….

STUFF, SPACE AND SKILLS

• Airbandb (rent overnight accommodation in people’s homes)

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/

• Bertie and Bean (children’s clothing exchange)

http://www.bertieandbean.com

• Ecomodo (lend and borrow each other’s everyday objects)

http://ecomodo.com/

• FabXchange (clothes swapping)

http://www.fabxchange.co.uk/

• FREEGLE (Free giving locally easily:  359 UK online reuse groups)

http://www.ilovefreegle.org/groups/

• Furniture Reuse Network (over 300 UK outlets and enterprises)

http://www.frn.org.uk/

• Globechain (Just like Warp It. Commercial reuse for organsations, businesses and charities)

http://www.globechain.com/login.aspx

• Home Swapping (home exchange)

http://www.lovehomeswap.com/

• iSwap (Online swapping)

http://www.iswap.co.uk/home/home.asp

• Justfortheloveofit (The freeconomy community to share skills and information)

http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/

• Landshare (connecting up growers with land space)

http://www.landshare.net/

• Lenderise (Copy cat site of Ecomodo. Lending and borrowing. New in Oct 2012)

https://lenderise.com/

• LETS (Local Exchange Trading System)

http://www.letslinkuk.net/

• Netcycler (online swapping, selling)

http://www.netcycler.co.uk/

• Recyclebank UK (how, where and why recycling and rewards)

https://www.recyclebank.com/

• Recyclenow UK (official Uk how and where to recycle)

http://www.recyclenow.com/

• Rent My Items (rent out your stuff)

http://www.rentmyitems.com/

• Shwopping (take back unwanted clothes when buying new clothes at M&S)

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/donate-goods/mands-and-oxfam-shwopping

• Start (sustainability inspiration for UK)

http://www.startuk.org/

• Store Mates (rent spare space in homes)

http://www.storemates.co.uk/index.html

• Streetbank (Connects up neighbourhoods to share goods and skills)

http://www.streetbank.com/splash

• SwapShop

http://www.swapshop.co.uk

• Swapz (Online swapping)

http://www.swapz.co.uk/

• Swishing (posh clothes swapping)

http://www.swishing.co.uk/

• Terracycle (recycling options in the extreme and reward system)

http://www.terracycle.co.uk/en-UK/

• The Borrowers (lending and borrowing)

http://www.theborrowers.co.uk/

• UK Cloth Nappy Libraries

• Warp It (commercial reuse site for organisations, business and charities)

http://www.warp-it.co.uk/

• LETS-Local Exchange Trading Systems or Schemes – are local community-based mutual aid networks in which people exchange all kinds of goods and services with one another, without the need for money. You can search to find a group near you

http://www.letslinkuk.net

• Community Exchange Network

https://www.community-exchange.org

BOOKS

 

• Book Crossing (lend and borrow books)

http://www.bookcrossing.com/

• Book Exchange (lend, swap, buy, sell books)

http://www.thebookexchange.co.uk/

• Book Lender (lend and borrow books)

http://booklending.com/

• Book Mooch (lend and borrow books)

http://bookmooch.com/

• Give a Book (to people who need them)

http://www.giveabook.org.uk/

• Read It Swap It (lend and borrow books with people)

http://readitswapit.co.uk/TheLibrary.aspx

TIME GIVING

• Fava Bank (social bartering)

http://www.favabank.co.uk/

• iVol (find local volunteering opportunities)

http://ivo.org/volunteering-brighton-hove

• TaskRabbit (get your to-do list done in your neighbourhood USA soon to be in London)

http://www.taskrabbit.com/

• Time Bank (unconventional volunteering)

http://timebank.org.uk/

• The People Who Share (Online and random events, Big Society funded organisation-they talk about sharing)

 http://thepeoplewhoshare.com/

CAR AND JOURNEY SHARING

• Bla Bla Car (car and journey sharing)

http://www.blablacar.com/

• Liftshare (car and journey sharing)

https://www.liftshare.com/uk/

• National Car Sharing (car and journey sharing)

http://www.nationalcarshare.co.uk/

• Park at My House (rent out people’s driveways, car spaces)

http://www.parkatmyhouse.com/uk/

• Whip Car (rent cars from local people)

https://www.whipcar.com/

• Zip Car (Bristol, Cambridge, London, Maidstone, Oxford Car Clubs)

http://www.zipcar.co.uk/

• The People Who Share (Online and random events, Big Society funded organisation-they talk about sharing)

 http://thepeoplewhoshare.com/

Hope that is useful!

Let me know what is missing…!!