Local authority funding
Suitable for all nurseries and schools.
Overview
Education phase
Category of activity
SupportingTypes of activity
How it helps
- Supports active travel projects
- Helps to promote active travel at leadership level
About the activity
Apply for local authority funding to help finance an active travel project.
Depending on your school’s borough, grants may be available to support your work to encourage your pupils, their families and your colleagues to travel more actively, or to fund road safety and cleaner air projects.
Speak to your borough officer to find out if there is any funding available locally for your school.
Work with your school travel working group on project ideas and the funding application.
How to evidence your activity
- Keep a record of how you made your funding request and how the money received will support your active travel targets
- Sign in to TfL Travel for Life to add your story. Explain what funding you applied for and include your proposal, if you produced one. Also include any risk assessment documents
Activity steps
Step 1
Contact your borough officer. Speak to your borough officer about the active travel project you have in mind and find out if they know of local authority funding available to you
Step 2
Apply. Follow the application process carefully and take note of any important deadlines. Make sure you highlight the active travel benefits you hope the funded project will bring, such as more pupils cycling to school
Step 3
Share your success. If your funding request is successful, shout about it in the school’s newsletter or on the website, and promote the event or resource the money will support
Step 4
Tell your story. Upload evidence in "my activities".