Community Action Grant
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The Community Action Grant has been set up to help voluntary community groups implement grassroots road safety initiatives. Those that meet the grant criteria could access funds of up to £1000 for use within their communities.
The initiative must focus on one of the Partnerships mandate areas – speeding, drink and drug driving, the use of mobile phones while driving and the non-wearing of seatbelts. The grant can only be awarded for educational and publicity materials.
How do I get involved?
The Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety is the largest locally based road safety project of its kind in the UK and is dedicated to reducing the number of deaths and injuries on Lancashire's roads. It is a long-term commitment to making fundamental changes to how we use the roads. The project focuses on the main causes of road casulties:
- Speeding
- Drink and Drug Driving
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Non wearing of seat belts
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Mobile phones
The Road Ahead
By 2010 the Lancashire Partnership aims to achieve:
- a minimum of 40 lives saved
- 580 fewer people seriously injured
- 760 fewer people slightly injured
In real terms, this means that the burden placed on our health service will be reduced. A reduction in these casualties creates an annual financial saving of £9,600,000 which can be redirected into other health care priorities.
Funding Criteria
Applications must meet the following criteria:
1. Local community groups are eligible but not individuals. They do not have to be registered charities, but they must be voluntary groups, such as Pensioners associations, or ones set up specifically to tackle road safety.
- The group must have their own bank account, or an agreement with another suitable organisation to provide banking and financial support. Cheques cannot be paid to individuals.
- Each proposal must meet one or more of the partnership’s aims to reduce road casualties by reducing speed, drink/drug driving, the non- use of mobile phones while driving or increase the wearing of seatbelts.
- Applicants may only submit one application in each financial year.
- Grant awards can be used to promote the key messages through any form of educational literature, research or event that the partnership deems to be effective in reducing road casualties.
- The funding cannot be used to pay for physical items such as road signs, barriers, road markings or any other street furniture and it cannot be used for road engineering such as humps, chicanes or access gates.
- The project must not conflict with other local initiatives.
8. Duplication of the Partnership’s work is acceptable only where the project is tailored to the local community and reaches that local community in a more appropriate way than the countywide scheme.
The Community Action GuideMany community groups are concerned about the effect that 'traffic' has on the quality of people's lives. Consequently, the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety is eager to encourage local groups to begin community projects that will help to reduce speed, drink driving, increase the wearing of seat belts and, therefore, have a positive and direct impact within the community. Let the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety help you implement your ideas. Volunteer organisations can apply for Community Action Grants to help develop local road safety initiatives. Improve road safety in your community, apply for an Action Grant today! Click here to complete the application form online. Alternatively, click here to download your copy of the Community Action Grant application form and post to us at the address stated on the form. If you have any questions about the Community Action Grant or the process, please email us or call us on 01772 534531. |
