Inequalities in Road Safety Grant Programme in the UK

Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

The Road Safety Trust has launched the Grant Programme focused on the theme “Inequalities in Road Safety”.

While road safety affects everyone, inequalities based on health, age, sex and gender, socio-economic status and geographic location mean that road use is not equally safe for all. This grant programme seeks to identify and address those disparities in order to save lives and reduce injuries on UK roads.

Strategic Priorities

• The Road Safety Trust aims to make a tangible difference on the roads via its Strategic Priorities:
  • Research that informs
  • Pilot that test
  • Dissemination that reaches
  • Advocacy that influences; and
  • Intelligence that matters

Objectives

• To support the achievement of the 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

Types of Grants

• Large Grants
  • The main objective of this grant is to help protect vulnerable road users.
• Small Grants
  • The main aim of the Small Grants Programme is 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. This told them that there was a need for funding for smaller, local projects with a practical focus.

Areas

The Trust is inviting applications for projects in one or more of the following areas:

• The impact of social determinants such as income and health and other demographic factors on local communities and their exposure to risk related to:
  • Illegal, dangerous and anti-social use of the roads, the effectiveness of current counter-measures and innovative methods for risk reduction.
  • The unique challenges faced by rural communities and different age groups within them.
  • Access to, and the effectiveness of, safety-enhancing technologies.
• Road safety issues for children with special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities, as well as issues for their careers.
• Improving the availability and quality of demographic evidence and information, and how it can be strategically used alongside road safety evidence to support practitioners and policymakers.

Funding Information

• Large Grants
  • Over £50,000, up to £300,000
• Small Grants
  • £10,000 to £50,000

Duration

• Large Grants
  • The maximum project length under this strand is 36 months.
• Small Grants
  • The maximum project length under this grant programme is 24 months.

Eligible Projects

• Large Grants:
  • The main objective of any project should always be to help protect vulnerable road users. Funding is available for a maximum of three years.
  • Eligible projects might include evidence reviews, trials, roll-outs, evaluations and support for the profession through guidance or other resources.
• Small Grants:
  • 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

• Large Grants
  • UK based organisations, public and professional associations, registered charities and university departments in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland may apply for Large Grants.
  • Individuals are not eligible for grants from The Road Safety Trust unless they are part of a larger research or project team. In addition, private commercial enterprises, Community Interest Companies and not-for-profit businesses will be considered for funding as long as the schemes or initiatives proposed are for charitable activity, are for public benefit.
  • In some cases, they may also accept applications from overseas organisations, eg. for world class research with the potential to benefit UK road users.
• Small Grants
  • Local Authorities, Police Forces, Fire and Rescue Services or UK-based registered charities, legally constituted not-for-profit social enterprises or community interest companies can apply. Universities can apply in partnership with another organisation in order to achieve practical outcomes.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Applications will be deemed ineligible where the following apply:
  • The application is assessed as having a private profit motive;
  • The public benefit to UK road-users is not clear;
  • The request is for core funding rather than project funding.

For more information, visit The Road Safety Trust.