Support available to encourage Walking, Wheeling and Cycling in Scotland
Transport Scotland allocates money to partner organisations who are responsible for delivering walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure and behaviour change projects across Scotland. Collectively these are the ‘Active Travel Delivery Partners’.
Projects they work on often focus on other core objectives such as climate change, reducing isolation, supporting people with physical or mental health concerns or disabilities, making places more attractive to live in and easier to walk, wheel or cycle around, and much more.
Please see some information below on current projects and support available to community groups, organisations and individuals across the country.
This is only a small part of the support available from each organisation, and the work each organisation does. For further information on any of the support on offer, or to discuss your needs or the needs of the community you work with, please contact the most relevant organisation directly.
Projects they work on often focus on other core objectives such as climate change, reducing isolation, supporting people with physical or mental health concerns or disabilities, making places more attractive to live in and easier to walk, wheel or cycle around, and much more.
Please see some information below on current projects and support available to community groups, organisations and individuals across the country.
This is only a small part of the support available from each organisation, and the work each organisation does. For further information on any of the support on offer, or to discuss your needs or the needs of the community you work with, please contact the most relevant organisation directly.
Information on active travel (walking, wheeling and cycling for everyday journeys)
www.SustainableTravel.scot - managed by Paths for All this website contains information on a wide range of funding and support available for making every day journeys more actively.
National Updates and Projects:
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Cycling Scotland – Scotland’s National Cycling Organisation:
Cycling Friendly Community Fund 2022/2023 is now open -
Constituted community groups across Scotland can apply for up to £20,000 to provide cycling facilities and increase access to bikes. Cycling Friendly and Social Housing development fund - Application form (tfaforms.com)
Social Housing Partnership Fund 2022/2023 is now open -
Social Housing providers in Scotland can apply for up to £25,000 per site to provide facilities that will encourage resident to walk and cycle. Cycling Friendly and Social Housing development fund - Application form (tfaforms.com)
If you have any questions, please contact the Cycling Friendly team: cyclingfriendly@cycling.scot
Cycling UK in Scotland:
Can provide:Contact your regional development officer – https://www.cyclinguk.org/shift.
- Advice and information on delivering cycling activities via 12 development officers operating across all 32 Local Authority areas.
- Up to £1500 funding through the SHIFT grant offering support to organisations with the aim of encouraging more people to cycle for everyday journeys: https://www.cyclinguk.org/shift.
Energy Saving Trust - Working to Address the Climate Emergency:
- Successful applicants to the 2021/22 eBike Grant Fund were announced on 14 March 2022. In 2021/22 we awarded £921,600 to 41 projects! In total, 237 ebikes, 56 ecargo bikes, 34 adapted cycles have been made available to Scotland’s communities through the fund last year.
- The eBike Grant Fund plans to open for 2022/23 applications in early June.
Living Streets - The UK Charity for Everyday Walking:
Can provide:Contact scotland@livingstreets.org.uk
- Support for people to take action for better, more inclusive, more walkable streets, and spaces that meet everyone's needs through the Healthier Streets project, 20 minute neighbourhood project.
- Support to set up local action groups. https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/products-and-services/projects/healthier-safer-streets-in-scotland
Paths for All - The National Walking Charity:
• 78 projects were awarded during 2021/22 within 22 local authorities
• 52 projects support walking and cycling
• 23 projects encourage more use of public transport
• 5 million pounds has been made available for the Open Fund for 2022/23 and the fund will open for applications in early May
Sustrans - Making it Easier to Walk, Wheel and Cycle for Everyone:
Contact: communities.team@sustrans.org.uk
- ArtRoots is a grant for communities on traffic free sections of the National Cycle Network to improve their neighbourhood through art. Grants up to £5000 are available to any eligible community organisation with no requirement for match funding. More information can be found here, explore the ArtRoots map here, or contact Pat.douglass@sustrans.org.uk.
- #JoinTheMovement by getting involved in our #AndSheCycles campaign! We would like to invite teenage girls and young women, and people who run activities with and for them to join our festival of led rides in the week commencing 20th June. To find out more contact andshecycles@sustrans.org.uk
- Look out for the launch of our new Peer Mentor programme - Activate Mentoring in June! Providing opportunities for community groups and organisations to share knowledge and learn from each other's experiences of running projects encouraging people to walk, wheel or cycle, and improving public spaces for this to happen. Express interest here to be kept up to date.
