THE ROAD SAFETY TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£102.1m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£2.3m

Accounts grants total

£2.3m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Cross-checked against the funder’s own 360Giving open-data publication: 16 of 18 grants we extracted from its FY2025 accounts match a published grantee by name (89%), and 15 also match on amount within 2%. Differences usually reflect accounting-year vs award-date timing and grants the accounts aggregate. Published 360Giving grants in the file: 148.

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: We have recently implemented a new two-stage application process, which offers early feedback to applicants as well as guidance for those who are invited to submit full bids. Further information about the process and how to use the online application portal is provided on the respective Large Grants and Small Grants pages once each round goes ‘live’.
Deadlines: There are usually two rounds per year, one for Small Grants and one for Large Grants. For Large Grants 2026/27, the closing date for submitting Expressions of Interest is 5 May (5pm), and the closing date for full applications is 27 July (12noon).
What they don’t fund: Individuals are not eligible for Trust grants unless part of a wider research or project team.

Summarised from www.roadsafetytrust.org.uk · www.roadsafetytrust.org.uk/what-we-do · www.roadsafetytrust.org.uk/grants-folder on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

BRISTOL COMMUNITY FM LTD “BCfm secures funding from the Road Safety Trust”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (6 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (5 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
Animals (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (7 grantees)
Scotland (4 grantees)
Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
City Of Swansea (1 grantee)
Devon (1 grantee)
Ireland (1 grantee)
Bradford City (1 grantee)
Kirklees (1 grantee)
Leeds City (1 grantee)
Throughout England (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	University Hospital Southampton	—	£407k
new	Business in the Community Northern Ireland	—	£283k
new	University of Oxford	—	£238k
new	SoMoCo	—	£50k
new	University of Sheffield	—	£50k
new	University of Surrey	—	£49k
new	National Young Riders Forum	—	£46k
new	BCfm Radio	—	£40k
up	Nottingham Trent University	£50k	£208k
not listed	DEVON AIR AMBULANCE TRUST	£492k	—
not listed	Coventry University	£409k	—
not listed	Transport Scotland	£313k	—
not listed	University College London	£250k	—
not listed	National Young Rider Forum	£213k	—
not listed	PACTS - The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety	£128k	—
not listed	University of the West of England (UWE) - Bristol	£53k	—
not listed	THE BIKEABILITY TRUST	£52k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
University Hospital Southampton	FY2025	£407k	Data Sustains Life (DSL), Linking Healthcare And Road Safety Data To Evidence Preventative Strategies Towards Vision Zero
Imperial College London	FY2025	£384k	Pedestrian Interactions With Connected And Autonomous Vehicles (PedICAV)
Business in the Community Northern Ireland	FY2025	£283k	Autistic Children Matter: Addressing Road Crossing Challenges From Multiple Perspectives
University of Oxford	FY2025	£238k	Mapping Road Safety Challenges To Independent Mobility For Children With SEND (Safe-SEND)
Nottingham Trent University	FY2025	£208k	Motorised Mobility Devices: Incidents, Near Misses And Safety
Nottingham Trent University	FY2025	£186k	Tractor Driver Training: Creating A Virtual Reality Hazard Perception Course For Agricultural Colleges
University of Leeds	FY2025	£143k	e-SAFE (Equity, Social Determinants, Anti-Social Behaviour, Future E-Mobility)
RAC Foundation	FY2025	£110k	Understanding Vehicle Safety Inequalities In Great Britain
SoMoCo	FY2025	£50k	The Rider Resilience Programme – Establish A Motorcycle Training Syllabus Based On Common Motorcycle Collision Causes
University of Sheffield	FY2025	£50k	Promoting Intelligent Speed Assistance In Car Showrooms: Preparation For A Randomised Controlled Trial
University of Surrey	FY2025	£49k	In The Driving Cessation Decision Seat: Feasibility And Acceptability Of A UK Driving Aid For Older Adults Within Dementia Services
National Young Riders Forum	FY2025	£46k	Young Riders Matter
BCfm Radio	FY2025	£40k	Small Grants 2024-25
Sussex Police	FY2025	£28k	Dissemination Funding Fasten Up for Your future And Nudge Project
Hampshire & IOW Constabulary	FY2025	£25k	HIOW Hotspot: The Development And Trial Of A Hot Spot Policing Approach To Reduce Road Casualties And Traffic Offences
Lancashire Constabulary	FY2025	£25k	Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Operation Virage, An Intelligence-Led Approach To Targeting Impaired Driving
Staffordshire University	FY2025	£10k	Assessing The Impact Of Community Speed Watch Letters
Brake	FY2025	£8k	Bereavement Booklets For Young People, Children And Vulnerable Adults
Devon Air Ambulance Trust	FY2024	£492k	IMPACT - the centre for postcollision research, innovation and translation
Coventry University	FY2024	£409k	In-Situ Mobile Application for the Triage of Pedestrians in Vehicle Collision (SENTINEL)
Transport Scotland	FY2024	£313k	Safeguarding Vulnerable Road Users: Motorcycle Safety in Scotland using Applied Psychology to Influence Rider Behaviour: Phase 2
Imperial College London	FY2024	£281k	Children Cycle Helmet Rating
University of Leeds	FY2024	£269k	Enhancing Novice Drivers’ Safety: Innovative Training to Improve Hazard Anticipation Skills
University College London	FY2024	£250k	Maximising learning from child road fatalities: evidence for action
National Young Rider Forum	FY2024	£213k	A Virtual Rider Training Tool to Improve Children’s and Parents’ Cycling Awareness, Attentiveness, Attitudes and Safety
RAC Foundation	FY2024	£194k	Road Traffic Injury impacts of Clean Air Zones/Low Emission Zones
PACTS - The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety	FY2024	£128k	Advocacy
PACTS - The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety	FY2024	£104k	Standardised Mature Driver Assessments to Improve Road Safety: An evaluation of implementation, delivery, and benefits across five English regions
University of the West of England (UWE) - Bristol	FY2024	£53k	Centre Line Removal Trialling for Safer Roads
The Bikeability Trust	FY2024	£52k	The view from the saddle: What perspective works best for a motorcycle hazard perception test?
Imperial College London	FY2024	£50k	DriveFit 2.0
Nottingham Trent University	FY2024	£50k	Development of an on-road tractorbased VR assessment and training tool for agricultural drivers
Nottingham Trent University	FY2024	£50k	Understanding and explaining the differences between the mentalmodels of motorcyclists and car drivers for detecting hazards: From theory to training
Imperial College London	FY2024	£50k	Enhancing Road Safety: Automatic Vehicle Triage in the NHS Ambulance Service for Improved Post-Crash Care and Injury Prediction
Leeds Older People’s Forum	FY2024	£49k	Driving Change Together
Road Safety GB	FY2024	£46k	Extending the reach of RSGB Ageing Driver Training
Foresight	FY2024	£37k	Making Me Proficient at Walking and Cycling
The British Horse Society (BHS)	FY2024	£5k	Look out for Laura - follow-up evaluation
Gloucestershire Constabulary	FY2023	£349k
Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London	FY2023	£293k
Sustrans	FY2023	£284k
Lincolnshire Police	FY2023	£230k
The Kier Foundation	FY2023	£199k
University of the West of Bristol	FY2023	£196k
University of Greenwich	FY2023	£190k
Derby City Council	FY2023	£183k
University of Sheffield	FY2023	£141k
Loughborough University Enterprise Limited	FY2023	£136k
London Borough of Waltham Forest	FY2023	£55k
University of East Anglia	FY2023	£46k
Road Safety Foundation	FY2023	£32k
University College London	FY2023	£30k
Shiny Side Up Partnership	FY2023	£30k
Brunel University, London	FY2023	£30k
Staffordshire University	FY2023	£30k
Nottingham Trent University	FY2023	£25k
The Open University	FY2023	£25k
So Mo	FY2023	£24k
Suffolk County Council	FY2023	£23k
Folksam	FY2023	£23k
Birmingham City Council	FY2023	£19k
University of Southampton	FY2023	£19k
Leeds Beckett University	FY2023	£17k
Wilsden Parish Council	FY2023	£13k
Grants paid from the Impact Fund	FY2023	£12k
The Floow Limited	FY2023	£12k
Liverpool City Council	FY2023	£9k
The British Horse Society	FY2023	£7k
Swansea University	FY2023	£6k
National Young Rider Forum	FY2023	£6k
Dryman Community Development Trust	FY2023	£5k
Addenbrookes Charitable Trust	FY2023	£5k
Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS)	FY2023	£4k
Loughborough University	FY2023	£3k
Wirral	FY2023	£0
Cardiff University	FY2023	£0
The Road Safety Foundation	FY2022	£199k	Maximising the accessibility and impact of telematics speed data for enforcement, road safety engineering and research
University of Sheffield	FY2022	£196k	Promoting intelligent speed assistance to reduce UK road traffic crashes
The Floow Ltd	FY2022	£190k	New technology and processes to optimise fitness to drive assessments
Loughborough University	FY2022	£172k	Understanding the limitations of automatic number plate recognition technology as a road safety and crime prevention tool
Lincolnshire Police	FY2022	£150k	Effective use of digital evidence submission
University College London	FY2022	£141k	Evaluating the role of telematics in reducing speed violations among drivers and riders in the delivery sector
The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety	FY2022	£116k	Advocacy
Folksam	FY2022	£91k	Rating bicycle helmets used on the UK roads and disseminating results
Lincolnshire Police	FY2022	£80k	Disqualified driver innovation: improving road safety by using monitoring technology
Gloucestershire Constabulary	FY2022	£55k	Re-definition of the London HGV Direct Vision Standard
University of West England Bristol	FY2022	£46k	Digitising the self-administered interview for road traffic collisions: a pilot test of usability and efficacy
Derby City Council	FY2022	£30k	Local authority skid resistance (LASR) – Phase 2: pilot implementation
Staffordshire University	FY2022	£25k	Routes to speed safety: understanding and measuring the contribution of community speedwatch
Suffolk County Council	FY2022	£19k	Safer roads through citizen partnerships: enhancing road safety through improved use of community speedwatch volunteers
Imperial College, Institute of Global Health Innovation	FY2022	£18k	Cycle helmet safety testing
Swansea University	FY2022	£13k	What is safe? Developing a perceived road safety indicators measurement tool for pedestrians and cycle users
Liverpool City Council	FY2022	£9k	A nudge in the right direction – using insights from behavioural science to improve pedestrian crossing design

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 2288931 vs reference 2282037 (0.3% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.