For Residents & Communities

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Supporting everyone to travel more actively and sustainably for more everyday journeys.

The four West of England authorities offer a range of support to residents across the region to help you try out new ways to travel in your community, or to help you promote walking and cycling within your community.

How we can support you

We provide support to individual residents who want to travel more actively and sustainably
Individual Support
If you're a community leader, group or organisation let us work with you to bring our offers to the people you work with and get the whole community travelling actively and sustainably
Get your community moving
We’ve compiled a page of tips and resources to help get everyone travel more actively to save money, improve our health and create more pleasant places to live, work and play
Tips and resources
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Community Active Travel Grants (Bristol & North Somerset only)

Bristol

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Community Active Travel Grants

Are you a community group or organisation with a passion for sustainability? Got an idea which will increase walking, cycling or bus usage in your neighbourhood?

Grants are offered subject to our standard Terms and Conditions. Please ensure you read the terms and conditions below before applying.
Grants will be assessed on merit.
Up to £4k available.
Minimum 20% in-kind or financial contribution to your idea from the total grant request. For example, if your project costs £1,000 we expect a £200 contribution or in-kind support (e.g. x number of hours from a project worker totalling £200).
Monitoring and evaluation: Department for Transport require pre-activity, post activity and follow up questionnaires to be completed by all participants in your project to demonstrate the impact of your idea.
As part of the grants process you may be selected to submit a case study about your grant.
Funding is for organisations based within Bristol, must have a bank account and terms of reference.
Scheme must be completed within 12 months of the grant being awarded, and any facilities funded must be available for a period of at least 3 years from the date of grant approval.
Grants will not be awarded retrospectively. It is favourable that provision of goods or services should be sought from the West of England locality where possible and when offering best value.
The organisation receiving the grant must participate in future annual Travel Surveys organised by Travelwest.

If you have any queries please contact [email protected].

How to apply

Please read the terms and conditions (by submitting a grant application you are agreeing to the terms and conditions)
Submit this form once you've completed all fields

Data protection

By submitting your application you are in agreement with our Data Protection.

The data that you provide on this form will be held on a secure server and used for the purposes of determining the success of your grant application and providing the grant funding to you. Your personal data will only be used for this purpose; anonymised data about the grant scheme will be provided to our project auditors UWE and our project funders the Department for Transport.

Terms & Conditions

By submitting your application you are in agreement with the terms and conditions. Press the button below to read all the Terms and Conditions.

Pre-requisites

1. Any grant payment will be equally matched with at least 20% in kind or financial support.

2. Funding is for organisations based within Bristol, must have a bank account and terms of reference.

3. The scheme must be completed within 12 months of the grant being awarded, and any facilities funded must be available for a period of at least 3 years from the date of grant approval.

4. Grants will not be awarded retrospectively.

5. It is favourable that provision of goods or services should be sought from the West of England locality where possible and when offering best value.

6. The organisation receiving the grant must participate in future annual Travel Surveys organised by Travelwest, as part of the monitoring requirements.

Changes to the agreed project / scheme

7. The council will be informed of any proposed changes or amendments to the project and reserve the right to withdraw support should these be considered unacceptable. If so, the council will require the grant to be either fully or partially refunded depending on the extent of the changes.

8. If, for any reason, the project does not take place, the funding will be returned in full to the council.

9. Should the project be aborted prior to completion then the council will assess the work done so far and determine the amount of funding to be returned to the council.

Evidence of completion and final costs

10. Photographs of the project before, during and once completed and evidence of the final costs (i.e. a copy of the final invoice for the work) must be provided to the council within 6 months of the grant agreement being signed. Anyone shown in the photos needs to sign a Bristol City Council media consent form, whether a participant, volunteer or staff of the organisation.

11. As part of the monitoring your work may be selected to submit a case study.

12. If the actual final costs are less than anticipated, the balance must be repaid to the council within 2 months of completion.

13. Original receipts must be provided to the council within 2 months of completion, failure to do so could result in grant payments having to be repaid to the council.

14. The Department for Transport requires participants within your initiative to take part in pre-activity, post-activity and follow up surveys regarding travel habits. Consider how you will integrate this in your project

Publicity and promotions

15. The council's contribution will be acknowledged in any publicity generated by the organisation/group.

16. The Travelwest logo and the council’s name/logo must not be used without permission. Please use the council logo when promoting project.

17. The organisation/group agrees that the council may use this project in future publicity/promotions.

Please note:

a) Any relevant permission (i.e. planning consent or landlord permission) must be sought to install facilities (if this is what you are applying for).

b) The grant funding cannot be used to pay for facilities that should be provided as part of any planning application or planning obligation.

c) Applications for grants covering high cost support facilities such as showers and lockers will need to provide evidence of demand and potential usage if requested.

d) The grant covers the net price of the measure only - the council is unable to provide funding for VAT. The VAT cost must therefore be covered by the applicant company.

Clean Air Zone Active Travel Grant Application Form

For further information or help completing the form please email: [email protected]

About you

Name of organisation(Required)

Address(Required)

Street Address City Postcode

Your name(Required)

First Last

Your role(Required)

Your phone number(Required)

Your email address(Required)

Enter Email Confirm Email

Number of employees, members and/or volunteers at the organisation (approximate)(Required)

Organisation overview(Required)

Tell us a bit about your mission, aims and objectives.

Income and Expenditure

This section asks for a summary of your anticipated income and expenditure.

This should be for the total cost of the activity.
If you are VAT registered, your expenditure figures should exclude reclaimable VAT. If you are not registered, your figures should include VAT.
If you cannot provide enough details on the form, please use it as a summary and provide the detail on a separate sheet or sheets, using the same headings.

Earned income

Other public funding (including ACESW, Lottery & European funding)

Private income

Support in-kind (e.g. total volunteer hours)

Income from trusts

Other, please specify

Total income(Required)

Expenditure (add rows as needed)(Required)

Expenditure

Amount in £

In-kind

Amount requested from Bristol City Council Community Active Travel Grant(Required)

Consent(Required)

I have read and agree to the below.

By submitting your application you are agreeing to the Data Protection and Terms and Conditions relating to the Community Grants and wish to apply for a grant on the basis of those terms and conditions.

You also agree to the Travelwest Privacy Policy.

North Somerset

North Somerset Council has match-funded Active Travel Grants of up to £3,000 available (up to 50% match-funding. If you work in the community and have a great idea that will benefit your group or your premises, contact us for an application form. Grants could help provide cycle parking, bike mechanics courses, ride leader training and much more.