Deadline: 19-Apr-21
The Road Safety Trust is accepting applications for its Major Themed Grants Programme to focus on engineering, infrastructure and technological measures, while recognising the contribution of education and enforcement to these measures.
The main objective of any project should always be to help protect vulnerable road users. Funding is available for a maximum of three years. They are committing to funding projects which:
- Generate new knowledge about what works
- Translate ideas into new measures
- Influence Road Safety Policy and Practice
- Support partnership working or collaboration
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
Funding Information
Grants are available for up to two or three years depending on the programme. The minimum award is £25k and the maximum is £200k.
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.
Limitations
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 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 costs 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.
For more information, visit https://www.roadsafetytrust.org.uk/grant-themes