Please note: The first round of funding is now closed. We will be open for applications in summer 2025.
We are committed to continuing our support for disabled people through the six grant programmes, using £50 million of the donation we received in 2023. This new funding will be available for charities and organisations, to apply for in summer 2025.
Motability Foundation’s Active Travel Grant Programme aims to help charities and organisations to improve and expand access to quality and affordable active travel equipment and journeys.
It also ensures disabled people have the same opportunities to make decisions about how they travel, their impact on the environment and to enjoy the physical and mental health benefits that active travel can provide.
Examples of areas where we have focussed our grant making included:
- Providing funding to ensure the voices and needs of disabled people inform and influence design requirements, and crucially, that they are shared with industry and Government to raise awareness.
- Providing funding to charitable programmes that introduce disabled people to different active travel products and services.
- Supporting existing programmes that have a clear focus on increasing travel confidence and safety for disabled people, to enable them to confidently use active travel products and services.
- Providing funding to schemes, programmes and initiatives that are already successful in supporting active travel and provide best practice solutions but need further support to remain operational or increase the service they provide, to help more disabled people.
- Providing funding to programmes, charities or organisations to help fund more high quality and affordable active travel equipment for disabled people.
Why are we doing this?
It is crucial that disabled people have the same level of access to different modes of travel to enable them to independently make whatever journeys they want. However, the limited publicly available research on active travel shows that disabled people walk and cycle far less, even though they want to.
Being able to get around under your own steam, whether for work or leisure, is something that everyone should have access to, therefore we have identified improving access to inclusive active travel opportunities for disabled people as a priority area for focus and investment.
