Ben's Bus, The Environment, Carbon Neutrality and our Charities

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BEN’S BUS CHARITIES

In addition to our carbon neutrality scheme, we support a number of charities in the UK and abroad. As a member of the sporting and travel community, we believe we have a duty to give something back.

When you book our shared airport ski transfer, you can opt to donate 25p to charity. If you do, we will match that 25p. So each booking, whether it be from Grenoble, Geneva or Lyon Airport, will result in a total of 50p going to good causes. We have a blog post here showing how much we raised at the end of the 2025 / 2026 ski season.

The charities that Ben’s Bus supports are listed further down this page.

We’ve also sponsored various youth sport clubs over the years, such as the U11 Wessex Giants and make one off payments to contemporary causes, such as meals for the NHS during COVID Crisis, or the Red Cross to help Ukrainian refugees.

YOUR BEN’S BUS SKI TRANSFER IS CARBON NEUTRAL!

We genuinely care about the environment and our climate. It was one of the reasons Ben started Ben’s Bus. The mountain roads are too often clogged with thousands of cars polluting our clean mountain air.

Climate Change and Global Warming are having an undeniable effect on ski resorts. By travelling on one of our shared transfers, your carbon footprint for getting up the mountain will already be minimal.

However, we’ve gone a step further and now fully offset the carbon emitted by our buses. Conventional carbon offsetting schemes have their flaws, so we’ve devised our own way of reducing CO2 emissions.

We convert our vehicle emissions into a monetary value, using conventional carbon calculators, and then double it just to be sure! However, instead of buying carbon credits, we donate the £15,000 / ski season to the award-winning charity SolarAid. They help provide sustainable, renewable energy systems to villages in Africa, reducing their use of polluting, dangerous kerosene lamps and generators. Here are a few of their fantastic initiatives:

Light a Village installs home solar systems and develops a sustainable business model for energy as a service

Health facilities Plug & play solar systems power handheld medical appliances used in rural health facilities

Solar Entrepreneurs: Trains and supports men and women within the community to become solar entrepreneurs

Tackling e-waste: Trains and equips local repair technicians to fix non-working solar lights. This helps keep them out of landfill

REDUCE YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT WHEN YOU FLY

You can help by reducing your impact on the environment yet further by making some small gestures when you fly to your ski holiday. Collectively, the ski community can help keep our ski resorts open for future generations by making some changes to the way we travel.

We’ve written a blog post with lots of suggestion on how you can further lower your carbon footprint.

WATER AID

WaterAid is a charity with initiatives in over 37 countries. They mainly operate in Africa and Asia by improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene.

Over the years, our customers have donated £2, 000 towards this charity and Ben’s Bus Ltd has donated £2, 315, making a total of £4, 315.

SHELTER

Shelter is a UK charity that helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through their advice, support and legal services.

Over the years, our customers have donated £2, 000 towards this charity and Ben’s Bus Ltd has donated £2, 315, making a total of £4, 315.

SOLARAID

Prior to our carbon offsetting scheme, we gave SolarAid a percentage of the donations by customers.

Our customers have raised £1, 351 towards this charity and Ben’s Bus Ltd has donated a total of £1, 912.

BRITISH SNOWSPORTS FUND

Ben’s Bus has been helping out our young snowsports stars for a few years now by offering free seats on our shared ski transfers out of Geneva Airport and Grenoble Airport to a few select athletes so they can train in resort. In 2016, we decided to take our support a step further. We became an official supporter of the British Snowsports Fund, a great funding initiative set up to support Britain’s future Olympians and the development of emerging British snowsports talents. We’re hoping that this will raise the profile of skiing in Great Britain whilst helping to fund our up-and-coming stars.

Our customers raised £974 towards this charity and Ben’s Bus Ltd donated a total of £1, 274.

Environment and Charitable Donations