Our partners
Funding your project, finding your direction, travelling responsibly, setting off properly insured: here are the organisations we work with, and what each one can offer you.
Who we work with
Four families of partners
Organisations we know, each useful at a particular point in your project.
To fund your project
Benevity and Globedreamers, to raise funds and find sponsors.
To find your direction and train
Parenthèse Utile, the guidance school for 16 to 25 year olds looking for purpose.
To travel responsibly
The media and networks of responsible tourism, which relay our projects and hold us to their charter.
To set off well equipped
Chapka for insurance, ISIC and the European Youth Card for discounts.
Funding your project
Benevity connects companies, their employees and volunteering programmes. The employee commits to a project, and the company turns their hours into financial donations. It is your way into a wide network where donors, volunteers and associations come together to support causes all over the world.
Globedreamers is a platform for finding sponsors and funding for a humanitarian travel project. Coaches follow each project properly.
Every funding route, grants included, is gathered on our How to fund your project page.
Finding your direction and training
Parenthèse Utile, a school for finding and changing direction, offers training and support to 16 to 25 year olds looking for purpose. It helps you find your path and build your skills, during a gap year or after school.
Travelling responsibly
Cap sur l'Écovolontariat is a travel blog offering ecovolunteering projects selected by its founder Laurence, a journalist passionate about responsible tourism. She describes her projects as participatory travel committed to the planet, and has relayed ours for several years.
Guidisto gives visibility to organisations working in sustainable development, private and public alike. The platform chooses its partners carefully and has relayed our training since 2018.
Babel Voyages is a media outlet specialising in responsible tourism: genuine places to stay, sustainable initiatives that take account of local people's daily lives, and a map of recommended places.
The association of eco-responsible travellers and tour operators is redefining responsible travel and highlighting organisations that are ethical and competent. Its charter holds professionals to account and informs the public. We are signatories of the responsible travel code of conduct and co-authors of the ecovolunteer charter.
Travel4Impact is a community supporting small and medium-sized tourism businesses by strengthening their competitiveness and their social and environmental impact. Freepackers is a member.
Setting off well equipped
Chapka Assurances is a broker specialising in travel insurance. Abroad, you must be covered in case of illness or repatriation: our partner offers policies matched to the length and the country of your programme.
The European Youth Card opens up more than sixty thousand discounts in thirty-eight European countries. One condition only: being between 12 and 30. It lasts a year, costs ten euros in digital form, and is open to every young person living in Europe, whatever their nationality.
The ISIC card, recognised by UNESCO, is the worldwide standard for student discounts abroad. Through this partnership, cardholders get one free activity on their Freepackers project, and three euros off the card with the code freepackers, on isic.fr.
What the youth cards open up
- 60,000Discounts with the European Youth CardTransport, culture, accommodation, eating out.
- 38European countries coveredFor every young person living in Europe, aged 12 to 30.
- €10The digital card, for one yearThe price of the European Youth Card.
- 1Free activity with the ISIC cardOn your Freepackers project, plus €3 off with the code freepackers.
