Our Social Mission
We operate as a social business, which means our main reason for existing is to deliver a social mission, not for profit. Our social mission is and will be coming in four parts:
1. To inspire people to explore their inner world through transformational travel, so that they are more creative, compassionate and courageous citizens back home; and to encourage different people from different cultures to learn about each other, their customs and mindsets, and through doing so develop global links that tie the world together in tolerance and mutual respect. Active.
2. To fund at least 30% of any profits we make into our Future Maker project. This helps youth who live on the streets - and can't afford to get their transformation from travel - step up, heal their traumas and become social entrepreneurs and community leaders. The first project is in development in Los Angeles with homeless charity Urban Possibilities.
3. Coming soon we will be developing a new application on the site that allows users to donate money to projects and programs in the nearest location to the spot where they had their ultimate trip - thus connecting a moment of epiphany with a moment of generosity. Forthcoming.
4. Eventually we will be developing a further application that allows users to volunteer in grassroots projects as close to the location of their ultimate trip as possible, thus acting as a broker for opportunities. This will tie in with our booking service for transformational travel adventures. Forthcoming.
You can read more about the social projects developed by the social enterprise behind The Ultimate Trip here.