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Sustainability

We’re on a mission

To enable a global community of pet people to reimagine travel, prioritising the happiness of animals and reducing our environmental impact through pet caring and home sharing.

We’ve facilitated over 10 million nights of pet sitting, connecting thousands of pet parents and pet sitters worldwide through their mutual trust and love of animals. Operating across 140+ countries around the world, our community stands at 200,000+ members strong.

We enable pets and people to live their best possible lives: Pets stay happy at home, giving their pet parents newfound freedom to travel. Meanwhile, our sitters get to experience unique travel, create meaningful connections, and authentically embed themselves within the communities they visit.

As we grow our incredible community of pet people, we’re committed to doing it sustainably: without increasing our environmental impact, and driving forward positive change for the planet, people, and of course, their precious pets!

Download the TrustedHousesitters Impact Report: 2023

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Planet

Our planet is our only home, but it’s not only ours. We share Earth with millions of other animals, many of which are already facing the impacts of climate change. For us, sustainability means finding ways to make positive and long-lasting impact across all areas of our business.

Our climate principles

Measure

We've been measuring our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions since 2022, adapting operations to improve the data validity and drive meaningful reduction efforts.

Reduce

We've set 2023 as our baseline year and aim to drawdown the emissions we are responsible for, reducing our intensity emissions by 10% in 2024.

Evaluate

We’re continually evaluating our sustainability progress, learning and building the confidence to be bolder in our targets towards a low-carbon future.

A more sustainable way to travel

We enable people to travel more sustainably through sharing their homes. Staying in a residential home vs a hotel can reduce accommodation-related carbon emissions by up to 88% per night in the UK.

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Pets

Pets are happiest at home - and vets agree! We want as many pets to stay safe and happy in the comforts of their own home, surrounded by all the sights, smells, and snuggle spots they know and love.

What vets say

People

We're a people-first business with a Trusted Team of over 100 employees, working together remotely around the world to become the world's most-loved travel solution for pet people.


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Stories from the TrustedHousesitters blog

We’re Escape 100 Award winners!

Discover how yours truly, TrustedHousesitters, was selected for The Escape 100 - a well-known campaign highlighting the top purpose-led organisations to ‘escape to’ in 2023.

Community meet-ups

Hear from some of our lovely members around the globe as they share their experience of attending (and organising!) a TrustedHousesitters community member meet-up.

Bentinho and Capitu's story

Hear from our members, Bentinho and Capitu, as they share their goal to see the world and get to know the people in it, and how house sitting helped them to fill the pet-shaped hole in their travels.

Our commitment to driving pawsitive change

Rome wasn't built in a day, and we know there’s a big journey ahead of us. But don’t worry, we’re up for the challenge!

We're committed to doing everything we can to help reduce our environmental impact, while helping to improve the lives of pets and people around the world and enabling ethical and sustainable travel experiences, made possible by pets.

A final word from our CEO, Mathew Prior...

Our sustainability mission is key to how we behave as a business. As we grow, we've pledged to act in the best interests of the planet, people, and pets. Continually striving for better, we’re measuring broader outcomes beyond just financial performance - growing and building a business that we can all feel proud to be a part of.

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