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.