Travel Well Community Grant Scheme – Expression of Interest
What is the grant for?
The Travel Well Community Grant Scheme seeks to help community organisations and local groups with a one-off instalment to buy an asset or assets to encourage and enable walking and cycling.
What is Travel Well?
Travel Well is the name of the nationally funded programme trial of active travel social prescribing focussing on our target areas of:
- Aspley, Beechdale, Bilborough,
- Bulwell and Bulwell Forest
- St. Ann’s and Sneinton
The social prescriptions of walking or cycling related activities can come into Travel Well via a formal route from health care workers. Also, referrals can come from community organisations or from self-referrals. This grant can either assist with general uptake of walking or cycling or specifically complement the rest of the Travel Well programme if your community group is directly involved in the referral process.
Grant asset examples
Examples of what the grant may fund:
- Cycle parking – ‘Sheffield stands’
- Outdoor walking clothes
- Raincoats
- Wellington boots
- Umbrellas
- Pool bikes
- D-locks
- Bicycle lights
- Bicycle baskets / panniers
- Bicycle pumps
- Puncture repair kits
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Cycle garage
- Drying facilities
- Lockers
- Secure bicycle lock up facilities
Examples of what the grant will not fund:
- Food and drink at a venue
- Room hire
- Revenue costs
- Staffing costs
- Social media and advertising
- Electricity bills
- Fuel
- Transport costs
The maximum a single group can apply for over the lifetime of the scheme is £10,000. If you have any questions, please send them regarding the Travel Well Community Grant Scheme, please email [email protected].
The grant scheme will be available until 31st March 2025. We do reserve the right to extend this depending on circumstances nearer to the time.
Publicity
It is important to get the name ‘Travel Well’ out there in the community, and so when referring to the new asset(s) we require you to use our logo to promote this project.
FAQs
Question: I run a community centre very close to the boundary where Travel Well operates. I would love to apply for 10 bikes which we can store and lend out to our users for the day. Is it worth me applying? Answer: It may be the case that you operate close enough to our target area and it would be beneficial to local residents. It should be nice and quick to fill out the expression of interest form below. Alternative, if you email [email protected] we can reply and let you know what we think.
Question: I have an idea of what I would like. I am thinking of 20 bikes, and the needed accessories and then some helmets if case people want them. Maybe a couple of cycling raincoats. If I estimate and round it up, will you send me the money and I can go out and buy it? Answer: In order to get the grant, you need an itemised shopping list. If you know exactly what you want, can provide the links or quotes, we can send you the money up front to purchase.
Question: Our group only started a little while ago and we haven’t yet got a fully constituted joint charity / group bank account. Will you pay the grant into my personal account? Answer: If approved, we can only pay the grant into a charity / group bank account that is fully constituted.
Question: Is this a quick process? Can I get the grant by the end of next week? Answer: we will try to process the application as quickly as can but by the end of next week is too quick a turnaround time. The expression of interest needs to be checked, then an application request sent out and then this is reviewed by a panel to ensure it is sound and legitimate.
Question: Will you give the grant if we don’t actually need any assets but actually need a bit of money to cover room hire and teas / coffees to help a walk or cycle event? Answer: No. But this may be covered by the Travel Well Community Enabling Fund, facilitated by NCVS. Please email [email protected] to find out more.
If you have any questions whatsoever, please do email [email protected]
Expression of interest questions
This is an expression of interest form where we intend to find out more about your organisation or group and whether it appears to meet our requirements to receive a grant.
Please answer the following questions in as much detail as you can. We may contact you to seek clarification or ask for elaboration to help us decide. You are likely to hear back from Travel Well shortly where we may deem it worthy of your time to complete the full application or whether state it is not appropriate for you to continue.
Filling out the below does not guarantee a response. If you do not hear from us again, you have been unsuccessful. If you are refused, or do not hear back, you will have no right of appeal of this decision. This does not affect your ability to apply again for this scheme or any other one.
Please note, success in this initial expression of interest, does not correlate to success after a full application is made. The full application process requires more detail, is more rigorous and goes before a grant panel.
Short form privacy notice
We will use the information provided by you to contact you regarding the Travel Well Community Grant scheme. The basis under which the Council uses personal data for this purpose is in the performance of a task in the public interest.
You are not obliged, either by statute or by contract, to provide the information that is requested here. It is a requirement of the Expression of Interest and the Application however.
The information that you provide will be kept until the Travel Well programme ends. This is likely to be August 2025 but may be after this date.
This is carried out in accordance with UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. The data will only be used for the purposes stated and may be passed onto our Active Travel partners and suppliers (Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service, Ridewise, Sustrans, Women in Tandem and Nottingham Bikeworks) where collaboration may be useful. Your information will not be passed on to other third parties.
The long version of the Privacy Note can be found here: Travel Well Community Scheme – Privacy Notice – Long Form.
If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
