Community Interest Campervans
Our aim is to give as many people as possible access to sustainable travel without it being an exclusive activity. Community ownership makes a campervan more affordable because members own the vehicle collectively and only pay for its use at cost price.
Furthermore, overheads like insurance, tax, and depreciation are spread over many more miles. Because the vehicle is in almost continual use, the cost per mile is significantly lower than that of a privately owned van.
We facilitate this through a community share scheme. Each share provides a time allocation to use the van, alongside a certificate verifying your partial ownership of the vehicle. If you wish to sell your share at any time, a buy-and-sell platform is available directly on our website.
If you want to start a scheme in your local area, we can launch it from here to drum up regional awareness. As soon as all the shares are sold, we will get to work building your van.
Why is this sustainable? Because community ownership means fewer vehicles on the road, resulting in less embodied energy and reduced material usage.
The Community Booking System
Our booking system is built on a foundational principle: equal, transparent access to sustainable travel. We believe a community-shared asset should feel collaborative, not commercial. That is why we don’t use complex dynamic pricing or high-season credit surcharges.
Instead, 1 credit always equals 1 day on the road, regardless of the time of year.
To ensure everyone gets an equitable opportunity to enjoy the van during prime weather, seasonal allocations are managed through balanced, share-based quotas that fit within the calendar year.
The Share & Credit Structure
Allocation: Each share receives 7 credits (days) per year (e.g., owning 2 shares gives you 14 credits/days).
Flat Rate: Booking a day in July costs the exact same 1 credit as a day in January.
Maintenance Buffer: We hold back 15 days a year outside of the share pool exclusively for workshop servicing, MOTs, and preventative maintenance to keep the vehicle in peak performance.
Seasonal Quotas (Ensuring Protected Access)
To prevent the high-summer weeks from being instantly monopolized, each individual share's allocation is split to ensure everyone gets a slice of the best weather:
Peak Summer Quota: Each share is allocated up to 3 days during High Summer (June–August).
Shoulder & Off-Peak Quota: The remaining 4 days can be used flexibly across the rest of the year (Spring, Autumn, and Winter).
Requests can be made to combine multiple share allocation to a single trip giving you a two week trip in mid summer with 5 shares for example.
Fair-Share Priority (Resolving Clashes)
In a community asset, overlapping date requests will occasionally happen. Instead of allowing people to "outbid" one another with extra credits, clashes are resolved democratically using this strict priority order:
Lowest Peak-Season Usage: Priority automatically goes to the person who has logged the fewest days in the van during high summer so far this year.
Lowest Total Usage: If summer usage is tied, priority goes to the owner who has used the fewest total credits across the whole year.
Historical Rotation: If still tied, the booking goes to whoever did not receive a peak summer booking the previous calendar year.
Community Lottery: In the rare event a tie remains, a transparent lottery determines the slots throughout the rest of the year.
