Chelsea Football Club has teamed up with a fans group to establish a liftshare scheme for fans.

Set up at the request of the Chelsea Fans Environmental Committee, the scheme is designed to reduce travel costs as well as congestion and pollution. It is accessed online and enables fans travelling to home and away games to save money, as well as share lifts and their matchday experiences with fellow supporters.

More about the scheme can be read at www.chelseafc.com/liftshare where journey details can be registered for free. The system works by matching fans offering lifts and those seeking transport to the game. The system will then let supporters know if anyone else is going in the same direction, leaving it up to them to make contact through a secure e-mail connection, and arrange to share both the journey and the costs of travel.

The Liftshare initiative is one of the proposals put forward to the club by our environmental sub-committee, and its implementation has been well received by the group: 'The committee welcome this latest scheme and the commitment of our club and supporters in reducing their environmental impact. We would urge fans driving to games to see if they can offer any lifts to blues in their area, it can save money, bring fans together as well as saving the environment. Together we can make a huge difference.'

As well as reducing travel costs, the scheme has been designed to encourage more efficient use of the car, thereby cutting down on congestion and pollution.

The project has been set up with the specialist car-sharing company, liftshare, which has established more than 600 car-sharing schemes for communities across the UK. liftshare now has over 260,000 journeys and over 280,000 registered members. This means that each user can choose whether to look for lifts within their own community, or from the whole liftshare database, thereby increasing the likelihood that they'll find a match to their journey requirements.

Chelsea has also undertaken a series of environmental initiatives and was the first club to sign up to the Mayor of London's Green 500 carbon reduction programme. As well as committing to reduce carbon emissions by over 10 per cent in two years, the club has also undertaken a project to engage fans to reduce their own environmental impact through a series of pledges and have published a comprehensive environmental policy online.

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