Our grant rounds are now closed and re-open in 2025
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Our grant rounds are now closed and re-open in 2025 •
Apply for 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.
Grant giving
See below for more information about how our grant giving works.
The video from our 1 hour webinar on 26 September is available to view in this section. It includes a presentation from the Grants Team about what we were looking for in this grant round with the theme ‘Inequalities in Road Safety’.
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 has now closed. It was focused on aspects relating to the theme of ‘Inequalities in Road Safety’. More information on the theme is available in the Grant Guidance, which can be viewed and/or downloaded on our Small Grants or Large Grants pages.
“Over £9.6 million awarded to 100+ 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.
Grant theme scoping reviews
We base some of our rounds on evidence that identifies where our funds can be best used to improve road safety in the UK.
We commission scoping reviews to help determine specific areas within a theme to focus on. These provide useful information on existing research and recommendations for further work, which may be of wider interest, so we have made them available here.
