ROAD SAFETY TRUST

Who they support

The provision of funding to support research or practical interventions in road safety to reduce death and injury through education, engineering or enforcement or a combination of any of these approaches.

www.roadsafetytrust.org.uk

info@roadsafetytrust.org.uk

07736466059

Colwyn Chambers
York Street
Manchester
M2 3BA

Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 1156300

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 53 donations have been made totalling £3,868,735 to 42 organisations
This grant maker is prepared to support unregistered organisations
The average age of charities supported has been 22 years.

Where are the Beneficiaries?

How big are the Recipients? ?

Average annual spending of registered grantees: £32,529,373

Which activities are being funded?

How old were the charities when supported?

Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)

Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?

	By Value	By Number
National Lottery Community Fund	4%	10%
Esmee Fairbairn	2%	5%
National Lottery Heritage Fund	2%	5%
BBC Children in Need	2%	5%
DCMS	1%	2%
Nuffield Foundation	1%	2%
Wolfson Foundation	1%	2%
The Legal Education Foundation	1%	2%
The Foyle Foundation	1%	2%
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	1%	2%

Sole supporter: 83% by number, 94% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount/ Spending	Recipient	To be used for
25/07/2023	£49,719	NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY	Understanding and explaining the differences between the mental-models of motorcyclists and car drivers for detecting hazards: From theory to training.
08/06/2023	£49,928	UWE-BRISTOL	Centre Line Removal Trialling for Safer Roads
08/06/2023	£46,000 £333,851	ROAD SAFETY GB	Extending the reach of RSGB Ageing Driver Training
08/06/2023	£35,840 £1,150,479	FORESIGHT	Making Me Proficient at Walking and Cycling
08/06/2023	£49,371 £1,190,611	LEEDS OLDER PEOPLE'S FORUM	Driving Change Together
08/06/2023	£51,594	NATIONAL YOUNG RIDER FORUM	The view from the saddle: What perspective works best for a motorcycle hazard perception test?
09/05/2023	£313,300	TRANSPORT SCOTLAND	Safeguarding Vulnerable Road Users: Motorcycle Safety in Scotland using Applied Psychology to Influence Rider Behaviour: Phase 2
28/03/2023	£5,049	THE BRITISH HORSE SOCIETY (BHS)	Look out for Laura - follow-up evaluation
28/03/2023	£19,330 £18,746,035	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
07/02/2023	£25,000	SO-MO	Message Not Received Evaluation
07/02/2023	£283,627	UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA	INDICATE - Introduction of an oNline cognitive battery for fitness to Drive In mild Cognitive impAirmenT and dEmentia
07/02/2023	£182,878	LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY	How can we stop people drug driving?
07/02/2023	£142,846	LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY, TRANSPORT SAFETY RESEARCH GROUP	Self-administered caffeine-nap intervention for driver sleepiness: efficacy for obstructive sleep apnoea patients
07/02/2023	£292,950	NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY	Development and validation of sleep-related driving risk prediction tools (SleepiEST)
07/02/2023	£206,604	LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY, TRANSPORT SAFETY RESEARCH GROUP	Development of an effective screening test to identify individuals in the early stages of dementia who are unfit to drive
15/12/2022	£12,000	NATIONAL YOUNG RIDER FORUM	National Young Rider Forum - continuation grant
15/09/2022	£16,750 £221,748	PACTS - THE PARLIAMENTARY ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR TRANSPORT SAFETY	E-scooter safety and wider implications for understanding casualty data
10/06/2022	£5,874	SHINY SIDE UP PARTNERSHIP	Know the Dangers - Social Media Campaign Evaluation
25/05/2022	£23,898	THE OPEN UNIVERSITY	We need to talk about handsfree: Officer understanding of the dangers of handsfree and handheld mobile phone use by drivers
25/05/2022	£29,839 £301,904	THE KIER FOUNDATION	Persuading professional drivers that hands-free phones are as dangerous as hand-held phone calls
25/05/2022	£30,000	THE BRITISH HORSE SOCIETY (BHS)	De-escalating road rage when passing vulnerable road users (VRU)
25/05/2022	£30,000 £50,184	DRYMEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST	Drymen Speed reduction and Community space gain through roadway softening layout changes trial
31/03/2022	£13,019	UWE-BRISTOL	What is safe: Developing a Perceived Road Safety Indicators measurement tool (PeRSI) for pedestrians and cycle users
23/11/2021	£55,000	LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISE LIMITED	Redefinition of the London HGV Direct Vision Standard to ensure technology neutral HGV design for UNECE Direct Vision Standard.
23/11/2021	£91,073	INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL HEALTH INNOVATION, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON	Rating bicycle helmets used on the UK roads and disseminating results
23/11/2021	£24,532	STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY	Routes to speed safety: Understanding and measuring the contribution of Community Speedwatch - A Partnership between Gloucestershire Police and Staffordshire University
23/11/2021	£18,999	UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH	Safer roads through citizen partnerships: Enhancing road safety through improved use of community speedwatch volunteers
23/11/2021	£30,000	SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL	Combining the carrot and stick: can ANPR Speed Indicator Devices reduce speed in rural areas?
23/11/2021	£30,000	DERBY CITY COUNCIL	Local authority skid resistance (LASR) – Phase 2: pilot implementation
22/07/2021	£171,875	GLOUCESTERSHIRE CONSTABULARY	Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Immunity - Understanding and overcoming the limitations of ANPR technology as a road safety and crime prevention tool.
22/07/2021	£189,919	THE FLOOW LIMITED	F2DR: Fit2Drive Piloting new technology and processes to optimise fitness to drive assessments and improve safety
22/07/2021	£140,823	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON	Evaluating the role of telematics in reducing speed violations among drivers and riders in the delivery sector
22/07/2021	£195,932	UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD	Promoting Intelligent Speed Assistance to Reduce UK Road Traffic Crashes
22/07/2021	£199,327 £337,959	ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION	Maximising the accessibility and impact of telematics speed data for enforcement, road safety engineering and research
22/07/2021	£149,771	LINCOLNSHIRE POLICE	How can digital evidence submissions from the public (e.g. from ‘dash cams’) be used more effectively to reduce road offending and improve road safety?
22/07/2021	£116,000 £292,585	PACTS - THE PARLIAMENTARY ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR TRANSPORT SAFETY	Advocacy
22/07/2021	£80,000	LINCOLNSHIRE POLICE	Disqualified Driver Innovation: Improving Road Safety Through Electronic Monitoring Technology
10/06/2021	£46,437 £285,089,000	SWANSEA UNIVERSITY	Digitising the Self-Administered Interview for Road Traffic Collisions (SAI-RTC): A pilot test of usability and efficacy
11/02/2021	£2,286	SHINY SIDE UP PARTNERSHIP	Know the Dangers - Social Media Campaign
03/12/2020	£25,000 £256,028	PACTS - THE PARLIAMENTARY ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR TRANSPORT SAFETY	The safety of private e-scooter use in the UK
03/12/2020	£49,903 £311,187	ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION	Knowledge compilation and road safety evaluation for Emergency Active Travel Fund facilities
03/12/2020	£43,780 £13,599,575	THE BRITISH HORSE SOCIETY (BHS)	Look out for Laura - Humanising vulnerable road users
03/12/2020	£31,492	BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON	An Immersive Reality Intervention to Improve Young Cyclists’ ability to Detect and Perceive Hazards as they Navigate Road Junctions: A Collaborative Safe Cycling Pilot Study
03/12/2020	£10,830 £163,104	ST. MICHAEL'S AND LARK LANE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION	Slow-Mo 4k Road Safety
03/12/2020	£32,560	NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL	Safe Journey Ahead: Road Safety Teacher Training
03/12/2020	£50,000	BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL	"Message Not Received" Seatbelts - The Unseen Problem
03/12/2020	£39,840	SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL	How effective is reducing speed limits on rural roads?
17/03/2020	£20,000 £77,180	THE AA CHARITABLE TRUST FOR ROAD SAFETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT	Young Rural Drivers
17/03/2020	£13,000	SHINY SIDE UP PARTNERSHIP	Know the Dangers!
17/03/2020	£28,000	KENT FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE (KFRS)	Pre-driver Theatre & Workshop Education Research (PdTWER)
17/03/2020	£30,000	DERBY CITY COUNCIL	Local Authority Crash Model for Skid Resistance
17/03/2020	£19,940	WILSDEN PARISH COUNCIL (WPC)	Harecroft: an evaluation of how to apply psychological speed reductions through a rural hamlet through incremental changes in visual deterrents over a fixed period of time
17/03/2020	£17,000	EDRIVING SOLUTIONS LTD	Impulse control intervention and evaluation project

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Cumulative Grants

Amount	Recipient
£349,450	LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY, TRANSPORT SAFETY RESEARCH GROUP
£342,669	NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
£313,300	TRANSPORT SCOTLAND
£283,627	UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
£249,230	ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION
£229,771	LINCOLNSHIRE POLICE
£195,932	UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
£189,919	THE FLOOW LIMITED
£182,878	LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY
£171,875	GLOUCESTERSHIRE CONSTABULARY
£157,750	PACTS - THE PARLIAMENTARY ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR TRANSPORT SAFETY
£140,823	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
£91,073	INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL HEALTH INNOVATION, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
£71,754	NATIONAL YOUNG RIDER FORUM
£62,947	UWE-BRISTOL
£55,000	LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISE LIMITED
£50,000	BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL
£49,371	LEEDS OLDER PEOPLE'S FORUM
£46,437	SWANSEA UNIVERSITY
£46,000	ROAD SAFETY GB
£43,780	THE BRITISH HORSE SOCIETY (BHS)
£39,840	SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL
£35,840	FORESIGHT
£35,049	THE BRITISH HORSE SOCIETY (BHS)
£32,560	NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL
£31,492	BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON
£30,000	SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL
£30,000	DRYMEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST
£30,000	DERBY CITY COUNCIL
£30,000	DERBY CITY COUNCIL
£29,839	THE KIER FOUNDATION
£28,000	KENT FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE (KFRS)
£25,000	SO-MO
£24,532	STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY
£23,898	THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
£20,000	THE AA CHARITABLE TRUST FOR ROAD SAFETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
£19,940	WILSDEN PARISH COUNCIL (WPC)
£19,330	THE BIKEABILITY TRUST
£18,999	UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
£17,000	EDRIVING SOLUTIONS LTD
£13,000	SHINY SIDE UP PARTNERSHIP
£10,830	ST. MICHAEL'S AND LARK LANE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION