Supporting road safety initiatives through grants

The Road Safety Trust is an independent grant-giving trust supporting projects and research that make UK roads safer for all road users - pedestrians, cyclists, mobility scooter users, car drivers, lorry and van drivers, and motorcyclists.

We support a variety of road safety initiatives through grants, with funding available towards projects that meet our grant criteria. Grants are available for up to two or three years, and these can range from £10,000 up to £500,000 depending on the funding round.

The Road Safety Trust owns a wholly-owned trading subsidiary, UKROEd. This is a not-for-profit company that carries out the management and administration of the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS). When someone goes on a driver awareness course, a small part of their fee comes to UKROEd to help cover the costs of operating the Scheme.

Any surplus from UKROEd’s activity is donated to the Road Safety Trust at the end of the financial year. This enables us to carry out our grant-making programme. UKROEd’s education of road offenders also helps the charity meets its objectives and serves as primary purpose trading.

Put simply, our purpose is to support innovative road safety research or practical interventions designed to reduce the number of people killed or injured on our roads. Practical interventions might focus on education, engineering or enforcement approaches - or a combination of these.