We are delighted to work in partnership with the Travel Foundation as it fits so closely with our values of co-operation and supporting local communities. By partnering with the Travel Foundation we are able to do this on a global scale and support communities and environments in destinations that our colleagues, customers and members love to visit.

Founded in 2003, the Travel Foundation is an independent charity working to ensure tourism benefits people and the environment in destinations all around the world. In 2016 the Travel Foundation contributed over £1.2m towards the charitable activities that they support. 72% of the income that enabled them to make these contributions came through the generosity of customers donating amounts as small as £1 when booking holidays.

Midcounties Co-operative Travel is also a key supporter of Just a Drop. Just a Drop are passionate about the impact that clean water and sanitation can make to people's lives and are committed to working towards the end of the water crisis in our lifetime. Their sustainable projects provide support to communities, such as through the construction of hand-dug and drilled wells, pipelines, sand dams, rainwater harvesting systems and hygiene and sanitation programmes and have reached over 1.4 million people in 32 countries since forming in 1998.

At the Midcounties Co-operative Travel, commitment to sustainability is high on our agenda. We endeavour to recycle all of our brochures and, wherever possible, send e-brochures to our customers to help reduce waste even further. As a result of the Midcounties Co-operative as a whole, achieving year-on-year energy savings and increasing recycling to 97% (from 21% in 2009), the Society was awarded the Carbon Trust Standard Award for 2018.