Deadline: 4-May-23
The Road Safety Trust is seeking applications for the Small Grants Programme to improve road safety at a local level.
The programme has been designed after reviewing the first four years of funding and listening to the views of stakeholders. They are looking for measurable interventions that link to local priorities and show a proposed link to reducing casualties either directly or through clear interim measures.
Strategic Priorities
The Road Safety Trust aims to make a tangible difference on the roads via its Strategic Priorities:
- Research that informs
- Pilots that test
- Dissemination that reaches, and
- Advocacy that influences
Objectives
To support the achievement of these strategic priorities, the objectives of the Grant Programme are to:
- Generate new knowledge about what works
- Translate ideas into new measures
- Influence road safety policy and practice
- Support partnership working and collaboration
Funding Information
- Applicants will be able to apply for a minimum amount of £10K and a maximum amount of £50k.
- Duration: The maximum project length under this grant programme is 24 months.
Eligible Projects
- Eligible projects are pilots/trials, expanding successful trials across a new area, and/or the evaluation of interventions. Projects should have the potential for being brought to scale – with the ultimate goal of reducing deaths and injuries both locally and across the UK.
Eligibility Criteria
- UK-based organisations (both public and professional associations), registered charities and university departments may apply for grants. Individuals are not eligible for Trust grants unless part of a wider research or project team.
- Private commercial enterprises, Community Interest Companies and not for profit businesses will be considered for funding provided that it can be demonstrated that the schemes or initiatives proposed are for charitable activity, are for public benefit and are consistent with the Trust’s priorities.
- In exceptional cases the Trust may accept applications from overseas organisations, e.g., for world class research with potential for demonstrable benefits for UK road users.
Ineligible
- The application is assessed as having a private profit motive;
- The public benefit to UK road-users is not clear;
- The application is for funding towards services or activities previously funded in whole or in part by the applicant organisation(s) or a statutory body;
- The request is for core funding rather than project funding;
- 100% of the total project cost has been requested (cash or in-kind);
- Applications are of a party political nature or likely to be in breach of laws relating to equality and opportunity.
- The application is not considered to fall within the terms of the funding round applied to
For more information, visit The Road Safety Trust.
