Travel Hands careers

Travel Hands pairs VIP with sighted and verified volunteers to walk together towards their similar destinations. A VIP can submit a trip request that is automatically sent to a volunteer near them, alerting the volunteer to their location. The accepting volunteer will then come and pick the VIP up and walk towards the requested destination.

VIP pay a £15 monthly subscription and next of kin is updated about journey in Travel Hands app. Volunteers help VIP in a flexible way and walk more. They are vetted by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) offered by the UK government. Distance walked is converted to points, points then converted to goodies as incentives from affiliated companies that seek and value their customers.

Travel Hands is created by team VIP World, designing user friendly websites, apps and services for VIP by following technical guidelines and by user testing with VIP World community, in the £16 billion UK market. (vipworldservices.com)

Traveling safely, cheaply and independently is challenging for 285 million VIP around the world. Covid-19 has made it even tougher for them to move around in the city as they normally require physical assistance to navigate. In London, travelling is twice as expensive and double the time for VIP as compared to people with sight for similar distance.

The service launched on 12th April 2021 in London with 10% WOW growth on journeys. We aim to serve over 2 million people with sight problems in the UK and our first target is 42,000 VIP registered with councils in London. Travel Hands:
-Ensures VIP save on average 30 minutes for every journey undertaken and £100 on travel costs per month.
-Create new social interactions and explore job opportunities in life that they never enjoyed before.
-Be user friendly to VIP by following accessibility good practice and by the user perspective and experience.
-Expand VIP World Community, & improve physical and mental health by encouraging walking & social
participation.