Small Grants opens 21 March 2024
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Small Grants opens 21 March 2024 •
Our grants
The Road Safety Trust uses any surplus gifted by our not-for-profit trading subsidiary company, UKROEd, to help create safer roads and protect road users.
As a small charity with low running costs, the vast majority of this income goes to support vital road safety studies and initiatives, through our grant programmes.
Our grant giving
See below for more info about how our grant giving works.
Our grant strands
Use the buttons to access detail on our two grant strands.
Large Grants
£50,000 to £500,000
Small Grants
£10,000 to £50,000
Funding rounds
Our Trustees consider the amount of income and potential demand to allocate a total funding amount each year.
There are usually two rounds per year, one for Small Grants in Spring and one for Large Grants in Autumn.
The Autumn 2024 grant round will have a theme, more information will be available about this soon.
“Over £6.8 million awarded to 85 projects”
How it works
The online application process involves a short list of eligibility questions, so you can see if you are eligible before committing a lot of time to preparing your funding request.
Completed applications are first reviewed by the Grants Team and the Road Safety Initiatives (RSI) Committee, which consists of five trustees. All applications are considered very carefully against our grant criteria.
Applications that most closely align with our grant criteria are then put forward for recommendation to the Board for approval, with an answer usually forthcoming within four months of the closing date for Large Grants, and sooner for Small Grants.
A useful watch
Here is a 30-minute Grants Spotlight video presentation where our Grants Team take you through some examples of road safety initiatives that we have granted funding to over the years (July 2021). Below you can see the grants we’ve awarded by organisation and grant type.
Example scoping review
We base some of our Large Grants rounds on evidence that identifies where our funds can be best used to improve road safety in the UK.
For our ‘Fitness to Drive’ theme in 2022, we commissioned a scoping review to help determine on which specific areas within this theme to focus on. This fits within our Strategic Priority of ‘Intelligence that defines’.
The scoping review report, written by Dr Carol Hawley and Helen Wesson, provides very useful information about the research that currently exists about ‘Fitness to Drive’ and a series of recommendations about where more research and work needs to be done on this topic and may be of wider interest so we have made it available here.
