Foundation on Trustroots Ideas

How is Trustroots different from Couchsurfing?

Fri, 05 Jun 2020 17:25:19 +0200

The elephant in the room

Couchsurfing, the largest hospitality exchange network has announced on the 14th of May, that they will be requiring many of their users to pay a monthly subscription. Since Trustroots is also enabling hospitality exchange, this is very relevant to us.

While Couchsurfing hasn’t claimed to be a charity or a non-profit since 2011, this move has angered many members of the community. When Couchsurfing turned into a for-profit, there were claims that it would also remain free. So the questions that are being asked about Couchsurfing are also relevant to other networks.

Introducing the Trustroots shop

Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:51:01 +0200

We have just launched a shop for Trustroots t-shirts and apparel — something our members have been asking for a while now.

We want a world that encourages trust, adventure and intercultural connections. This is another way to show you are part of Trustroots family and promote that the willingness to help each other is universal, where ever we go.

About designs

Currently there are just some basic designs available. We will be adding more little by little. If you have a great design or sketch, feel free to send us your designs so we could increase the variety!

First Trustroots collective: Berlin 2015

Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:33:17 +0200

From the 7th of August and onwards the Trustroots team is gathering in

Berlin

for the

first Trustroots collective

. We launched the website last December and we are very happy with the current situation. We now have an official non profit Trustroots Foundation

registered

in the UK. Almost

9000 members

strong, with a lot of activity all over the world. Mainly in Europe and mainly in Berlin, exactly as we had expected. Now it’s time for the next phase. And it’s time the 5

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung article (in German)

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:48:44 +0200

A couple of weeks ago Mikael, Callum and I were interviewed by Marlene Göring. She was writing an article about hospitality exchange for a renowned German newspaper.

Here’s the article, it’s in German:

Sofa So Good - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

(posted here by author’s request). And a big chunk of it is about Trustroots! It mostly looks pretty great. I just want to comment about this part:

Announcing the Trustroots Foundation

Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:11:02 +0100

Exciting times! It’s time to give a little update about our legal status. From a legal point of view Trustroots has been a hobby project so far, but we obviously need a non-profit legal base for our project.

We now have the

Trustroots Foundation

We just set up a

Limited by Guarantee

(LBG) in the United Kingdom under section 60 exemption with by-laws that allow us to easily add the so called