Organisations and businesses can bid for a share of £1 million in funding to help them deliver bold and innovative initiatives that enable more people to walk, wheel or cycle, Active Travel England (ATE) has announced.
The Active Travel Innovation Fund is inviting applications from small to medium-sized businesses and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), with grants of up to £100,000 available for each successful applicant.
The funding is designed to help develop new ideas or to expand on successful initiatives that are already making a difference. Examples could include community projects that help under-represented groups make more active travel choices, projects that work alongside local councils to enable and promote sustainable travel, or that use digital tools to improve safety and accessibility.
This funding will support the Government’s Plan for Change by backing entrepreneurs and creative and ambitious projects to improve the nation’s health and kickstart economic growth.
- The fund is to be spent on active travel interventions, with a focus on engagement and behaviour change. This may include spend for materials and small items to support the development, delivery and/or scaling of interventions.
- Interventions which propose to use funding to continue the day-to-day running of an existing service will clearly need to demonstrate how funding will add additional value – e.g. by reaching new users; by scaling the service; by delivering new/different outputs.
Questions should be issued to ATE-Innov-Fund@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. The mailbox will remain open until the fund officially closes however the deadline for clarification questions in relation to the fund e.g. regarding eligible organisations, will be 7th November 2025.
ATE will review and shortlist applications between mid-November and early December, with interviews for shortlisted applicants likely to be held the week commencing 15th December 2025.
Successful applicants will be notified of their funding in January 2026, with funding formally awarded in February 2026. The delivery of interventions should conclude by the end of March 2027, with a fund evaluation stage to commence thereafter.
For full details and eligibility criteria, visit the Government Find a Grant website.
Closing date: 14 November