Small projects
Here’s a portfolio giving details of the projects who have received Small Grants funding from us. If you have a road safety initiative that requires funding and you meet our small grant criteria, why not apply when the grant applications are open?
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Insight and Impact Ltd
Developing Behaviourally Informed Guidance for Using Virtual Reality (VR) in Road Safety Education
There are currently no national standards guiding how VR should be designed, delivered, or evaluated in road safety education. This project will fill that gap by developing the UK’s first national, evidence-based and behaviourally informed guidance for VR road safety interventions.
Leaders Unlocked
The Young Drivers' Commission: empowering young people to reshape the way we educate, train, test and license
Young driver safety remains a major challenge, with nearly 5,000 people killed or seriously injured in 2024 in crashes involving at least one young driver. Despite known solutions, progress has stalled due to complex and contested policy debates. This project aims to unlock action by bringing young people and policymakers together in constructive dialogue.
CVS Brent
Brent Streets Safe: Multi-Lingual Safety for Pedestrians and Cyclists
This project will address the disproportionately high risk of casualty for non-English speakers, design culturally relevant safety content, run workshops to check content, produce 2,500 translated packs (with digital version) and give a verified evidence base to Brent Council
University of Leeds
Slowing down for safety: Where, when and why do drivers comply with 20 mph speed limits?
This project will take a human-centred approach to explore the factors affecting speed limit compliance in Leeds and to provide an overview of best practices in the initial implementation of 20 mph speed zones, based on the research literature and lessons learned.
The Open University (in partnership with Devon & Cornwall Police Driver Support Team)
A Focused Response: Supporting police emergency drivers to recognise and manage cognitive distraction
This project addresses the potential contributory factors behind fatalities and collisions involving police vehicles during emergency responses.
Transport For All
Assessing Gait Speed of Disabled People in the Context of Road Crossings
This research seeks to address the safety gap between current UK signal timings and actual pedestrian mobility needs.
Derbyshire Constabulary
National communications campaign to improve motorcycle safety
Motorcyclists continue to be some of the most at-risk road users - this project aims to reduce motorcyclist deaths and serious injuries on UK roads through an evidence led behaviour change campaign.
Diabetes Safety Organisation
Pilot research: What is the experience of HGV drivers with diabetes?
This is a short qualitative research project which seeks to understand and make visible the experience of HGV drivers with diabetes, and better understand how HGV drivers manage the various ways their condition can impact their health, safety and driving performance.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
Road SHaRP (Safety, Help and Response Preparedness) Intervention Project
This project aims to close a critical gap in road safety education for young road users aged 17–24, by teaching them how to respond safely and effectively in the immediate aftermath of a collision, breakdown, or roadside emergency.
Brake, The Road Safety Charity
Police property boxes and bags
The return of a loved one’s belongings following their death is considered a ‘pain point’ for families, which can frequently trigger the magnitude of their sudden loss - this project aims to provide all police forces in the UK with a range of boxes and bags to return property belonging to deceased persons following fatal road traffic collisions, to loved ones.
QI/AISIN Roadtrace
From Data to Design: Validating Predictive Risk to Inform Safer Streets
This project will enable earlier identification and understanding of high-risk sites, before serious or fatal collisions occur. The overall aim is that by enabling proactive risk validation without large capital spend this pilot will make Vision Zero strategies more accessible to local authorities across the UK.
Road Safety GB
Mature Drivers Conference
A one-day national conference for road safety professionals, focusing on mature driver safety, bringing together road safety professionals and those committed to supporting mature drivers to maintain their independence while at the same time enhancing their safety.
ECM Research Solutions
BikeSafe Evaluation
BikeSafe is a long-standing police-led motorcycle safety initiative, first established in 2000. As the scheme has transitioned under UKROEd governance and administration, there is now a timely opportunity to undertake the first formal evaluation of its 25-year history.
University of Surrey
In the driving cessation decision seat: Feasibility and acceptability of a UK driving aid for older adults within dementia services
This study will use mixed methods to explore the feasibility, acceptability and merits of using a new UK-adapted dementia driving decision aid (DDDA-UK).
National Young Rider Forum
Young Riders Matter
Young Motorcyclists continue to be over represented in the KSI casualties statistics despite accounting for fewer numbers and miles travelled on our roads than all other road users groups.
Bristol Community FM
The Community Radio Road Safety Project - Engaging Listeners, Saving Lives
A project by BCfm Radio in partnership with University of the West of England, Avon & Somerset Police, and four other community radio stations across the West of England tackling road safety concerns in the region using the power of community radio.
The Bikeability Trust
An Immersive VR Intervention to Improve Child Cyclists’ Looking Behaviour and Situation Awareness and its Effects on Child and Parent/Carer Confidence and Attitudes: A Nationwide Community-Based Study
Using video based and on-road assessments this project determined whether immersive training delivered using VR headsets can improve children’s on-road cycling performance.
Business in the Community Northern Ireland
Responsible driving and the Fatal Five
An innovative, educational project that aims to increase road safety awareness and advocacy within the business community by leveraging the workplace as a setting for imparting road safety education.
Imperial College London
Enhancing Road Safety: Automatic Vehicle Triage in the NHS Ambulance Service for Improved Post-Crash Care and Injury Prediction
This pilot project aims to significantly reduce fatal and severe injuries by leveraging in-vehicle sensor technology to predict injuries and improve post-crash care.