The Road Safety Trust: A decade of impact
About the Study
Since its establishment, The Road Safety Trust has played a pivotal role in improving road safety across the UK, awarding over £12.3 million to 124 projects in its first decade.
Through its grant-making work, the Trust has funded both nationwide and local initiatives aimed at reducing deaths and serious injuries on the roads, focusing on evidence-based approaches and innovative practices.
In 2025, the Trust commissioned an independent evaluation of its grant-giving activities, with the aim of assessing real-world impact, understanding its contribution to national road safety outcomes, and exploring lessons learned for future practice.
It found that over the past ten years, the Trust has built a large, practical evidence base by funding projects that span many aspects of road safety and that, crucially, this research and knowledge had been designed to be shared with road safety professionals to be used and deployed in practice.
The evaluation also highlighted the Trust as a catalyst in an important area of public health, frequently backing research and interventions that go on to improve road safety and save lives.
It concluded that over the past ten years The Road Safety Trust has made a significant positive difference to road safety outcomes in the UK.
By supporting research, pilots and evaluations that others may overlook, the Trust has laid the foundations that enable:
Government to develop more informed road safety strategies
Emergency services to update life-saving procedures
Police forces to strengthen enforcement
Local authorities to deploy proven interventions
Researchers and practitioners to collaborate more effectively.
Impact Study Launch Event | London | 25 March 2026
The Road Safety Trust’s Impact Study will be officially launched during a celebratory event at The Wellcome Collection in London on Wednesday 25 March 2026.
Event Details
The event will hear from policymakers and practitioners within the road safety sector, with contributions from Lilian Greenwood MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Local Transport) and Ruth Cadbury MP, Chair of the Transport Select Committee, among many others.
It will showcase many of the hugely successful research projects and interventions that have received funding from the Trust over the past ten years, and how they have gone on to improve road safety, influence policy and, ultimately, save lives.
The full event brochure may be viewed or downloaded below.
Media Enquiries
Journalists wishing to find out further details about The Road Safety Trust’s Impact Study, or who would like to request an interview, are invited to log an enquiry by emailing media@roadsafetytrust.org.uk
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