Sustainable Travel Grants for Schools
Schools are able to apply for ‘Sustainable Travel Grants’ to help implement measures that increase walking, wheeling, cycling and scooting to your school.
The grants are available to schools who can demonstrate that the funding will be used to encourage and enable active and sustainable travel and make positive changes to the way pupils, families and staff travel to school.
Schools can apply for grants up to the value of £10,000 for cycle and scooter parking and up to £5000 for supplementary measures that support your plans to encourage more people to walk, wheel, cycle or scoot to school, building on the rise of greener, more environmentally friendly, people-powered journeys.
Benefits of promoting and enabling active and sustainable travel
- Better air quality around the school gates
- Reduce issues caused by inconsiderate and dangerous parking
- Improve road safety around your school
- Reduce traffic queues and congestion around your school
- Support your students and staff to be more physically active by making it easier to walk, wheel, cycle or scoot to school
- Healthier and happier students – improved physical and mental wellbeing
- Reduce your schools transport emissions
- Save money on fuel and vehicle costs – for your parents and your employees
Funding will be directed towards schemes that:
- Support and encourage use of active modes of transport which deliver health and well-being benefits.
- Support and encourage travel which minimise CO2 emissions and other pollutant emissions.
- Ensure the safety of all travellers.
Schemes that will be eligible for funding:
- Promotional events/campaigns that encourage walking, wheeling, cycling, scooting.
- Scooter and Skateboarding Skills Session
- Active Travel Breakfasts
- Provision of pool / or fleet of bikes
- Improvement of pedestrian/cycling access
- Bike maintenance or Dr Bike sessions
- New or improvements to cycle and or scooter parking facilities.
Schools are able to apply for more than one initiative/schemes e.g. funding for Dr Bike Session, Scooter Storage. This isn’t an extensive list, please feel free to apply for any initiative or scheme.
Scheme criteria:
- Schools can apply for a sustainable travel grant up to a maximum of £10,000 for cycle and / or scooter parking and up to £5000 for supplementary measures that support your plans to encourage more people to walk, wheel, cycle or scoot to school.
- Schools will agree to monitor the impact and benefits of the scheme by providing baseline data and surveys.
- Schools must register on the Modeshift STARS platform and create a travel plan and as a minimum, have completed the Site Audit section and student travel survey.
- The awarded school should commit to achieving a minimum of Good Modeshift STARS accreditation within 12 months of receiving their grant. (This means that they will have developed a Travel Plan and committed to delivering action to further promote and enable active and sustainable travel to and from their site.)
Scheme application
- Complete the application, include details of your proposed scheme.
- Milton Keynes Council assesses applications monthly.
- Notification of successful applications.
- Applicant agrees to criteria and registers for Modeshift STARS.
- Applicant completes student travel survey to capture baseline data and completes Site Audit.
