Successful projects under the Road Safety Grant Challenge Fund 2007-2008

Age Concern Leicestershire and Rutland. £20,000

Free B Seen High Visibility Shopping bags for Older Pedestrians. This project will encourage all pedestrians over the age of 60 to carry a free high visibility shopping bag provided by Age Concern Leicestershire and Rutland, particularly: after dark; when the weather is bad; and during the winter months. Included in the bag will be an easy-to-read full colour leaflet with safety tips.

British Motorcyclist Federation. £5,000

Killspills Anti Diesel Spill leaflet. These leaflets will be made   widely available to all road users, not just the road haulage / bus industry.   It is hoped to make these leaflets available at petrol filling stations, road hauliers refuelling depots and at MOT test stations.

Brake. £13,283

Road Safety Week Fleet Safety Resources and 'Action Pack'. This project will provide free educational resources for companies as part of Road Safety Week.  In 2007, Brake will produce an expanded Road Safety Week ‘action pack’ for companies. The pack incorporates a fleet safety information pack for fleet managers. The expanded ‘action pack’ will contain posters; a short information sheet with ideas on how companies can get involved in Road Safety Week; a six-page fleet safety information sheet for fleet managers on a topic relating to the theme of Road Safety Week; and a covering letter encouraging companies to access road safety resources on and via the Road Safety Week website.

Brake. £2,903

Road Safety Week Teaching Resources for Special Educational Needs (SEN). This project will provide teaching resources for teachers of pupils with special educational needs (SEN), and is designed to complement the free educational web-based resources and ‘action pack’ Brake produces annually for Road Safety Week.

Brake. £20,000

Road Safety Week Teaching Resources and 'Action Pack'. This project will provide free educational resources for teachers of (a) nursery (b) primary and (c) secondary age pupils as part of Road Safety Week.

Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT). £20,000

Road Safety Education for Teenagers. This project will develop web-based educational resources for young people at key stage 3/4. This is a joint project between CAPT and Whoops!, which will draw on, develop and disseminate nationally the innovative work undertaken by the Whoops! project with teenagers in  deprived areas of the North East. This has used drama, role-play and story-telling to deliver hard-hitting road safety messages to young people in their classrooms. Topics covered in the lesson plans and accompanying teachers’ notes will include: speeding; racing; drink driving; drugs and driving; seatbelts; pedestrians; tiredness; distractions; showing off; peer pressure; consequences; stress and regret. Although the emphasis of the resource will be on teenagers as pre-drivers, the broader life skills conferred will have transferable benefits for teenagers as cyclists and pedestrians.

CAPT. £20,000

Cross-Cutting Networks for Road Safety. This project will create a downloadable action planning guide and practical resource which can be widely disseminated. The project will identify and bring together cross-cutting connections and delivery chains linking road safety with other national and local priorities and quality of life indicators. This project builds on the findings of the Neighbourhood Road Safety Initiative (NRSI) which highlighted: the need to extend the reach of road safety; the importance of developing and sustaining partnerships through active involvement and innovative community engagement; the priority of targeting people rather than places; the opportunity to reduce death and injury, and to address inequalities through integrated action.

CAPT. £20,000

Child Safety Week 2007. Child Safety Week will run from 18 to 25 June 2007. Child road safety will be one of five key issues highlighted during Child Safety Week 2007. Topics highlighted will include: the link between drivers’ speed and child fatalities, especially in built-up areas where children play; and the role of parents/grandparents in teaching children about pedestrian and cycling safety.

CAPT. £20,000

Child carers’ road safety resource pack. This project will develop a child road safety resource pack designed to meet the needs of home-based child carers. Though primarily aimed at registered childminders, the resource pack will also prove beneficial to informal child carers including grandparents. Key safety messages will include: holding hands near roads; choosing the safest place to cross (ideally a proper crossing); wearing light-coloured/reflective clothes in the dark; wearing a cycle helmet; child carers as drivers, including speed, children’s behaviour in traffic, using a child car seat on every journey and getting out of the car using the door next to the pavement.

Heartsease Residents Association. £4,890

Heartsease Road safety Project. This project will produce road safety signs and messages designed by children to encourage drivers to reduce their speed. The signs/messages would be displayed at various points around the Heartsease estate. This builds upon a previous project with Norwich City Council which Transport 2000 highlighted as good practice and claims to have achieved a 5 mph reduction in speed limits - see Catton Pride booklet.

Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers (IHIE). £19,566

Motorcycling Guidelines Website. The Guidelines currently comprise a 90+ page book complete with CD-ROM priced at £45. The remaining copies will be exhausted in 2007. This project will place the Guidelines on the ‘web’ as a free ‘download’. This should be an effective method of updated and disseminating best practice.

SpeakingUp - Next Steps. £16,255

Next Steps: Safety First Project. Next Steps has received national acclaim for the innovative way in which it enables people with learning disabilities to gain the skills, independence and confidence they need to achieve the life of their choosing. The Next Steps courses won a prestigious 2006 Community Care award. This project will enable 1,500 people with learning disabilities throughout the UK to benefit from the Safety First course. It will support a group of people with learning disabilities to extract the learning from the course and create a booklet to help other learning disabled people. The Safety First booklet will enable a wide range of professionals, such as Social Workers and Support Workers in at least 500 organisations to deliver the Safety First course to learning disabled people they work with.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - (ROSPA). £19,876

A Manager's Guide to Vehicle Technology. This project will produce “A Manager’s Guide to Vehicle Technology” aimed at fleet, HR and line managers, and individual drivers. It will present researched benefits and potential risks of technology in an objective and quantified manner.  The Guide will be produced and distributed as a folder with inserts, and pdf’s of the sheets will be put on RoSPA’s website for download. The printed version will be freely available while stocks last, and the web version will remain freely available.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - (ROSPA). £14,208

Choosing and Using Child Car Seats Film. This project will re-make and update RoSPA’s road safety film “Choosing and Using Child Car Seats” which is now out of date. The film will be designed to be used as part of a training course, during road safety presentations or seminars or as a stand-alone film. It could be used by a road safety professional or by individual parents. It will be approximately 25 minutes long and be produced as a DVD. It will be available free while stocks last. Approximately 1,000 copies of the DVD will be produced.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - (ROSPA). £12,900

Kings of the Road Film. This project will re-make and update RoSPA’s road safety film “Kings of the Road”. The film will portray three 'typical' work drivers, and include footage of driving and advice from road safety experts. The drivers discuss scenarios which resulted in them being involved in a crash while driving. The scenarios will include, and stimulate discussion about, the following road safety issues: driver sleepiness; speed; distraction (mobile phone, satellite navigation); fitness to drive; and route Planning.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - (ROSPA). £19,568

Driving for Work: Fitness to Drive. This project will produce practical advice to help employers to develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that staff who drive or ride for work are fit to do so. The resource will place fitness to drive within the overall context of managing occupational road risk and organisations’ occupational health policies. It will include a sample policy that could be adopted as written or tailored to particular needs. It should help employers produce practical systems to assess the fitness-to-drive of their staff and to provide necessary help or adjust work tasks. It should also help them to raise awareness amongst staff of the importance of this issue.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - (ROSPA). £19,683

How to share the Road Safely with an Articulated Lorry. This project will produce a cyclist/pedestrian scenario with scripts, assessment and resources for use by Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk’ (LASER) schemes to educate cyclists and pedestrians to the dangers of sharing road space with large vehicles. They will also be suitable for use by Road Safety Officers and road transport organisations. Once finalised, the specifications and instructions will be placed on the LASER and RoSPA websites to enable scheme co-ordinators to produce their own versions. Master copies of the lesson plans, scripts, assessment tools and support materials (which will also be piloted) will also be downloadable from the websites.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - (ROSPA). £19,995

Resource for Key Stage 2 children with English as a second language. The resource will comprise a teacher’s guide and attractive pupil workbooks with a highly visual, and progressive content for use in the classroom. It will feature clear and simple road safety messages focussing on the main risk areas for children of this age group: walking; cycling; and travelling in a car. The road safety messages will be provided in English, Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi and Arabic, as these languages are significantly represented in authorities across Great Britain.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - (ROSPA). £14,989

Road Safety Pack for Healthy Schools Co-Ordinators. This project will produce a ‘Road Safety Pack for Healthy Schools Co-ordinators’. The pack will provide guidance on: how to introduce or extend road safety in your healthy school; taking a whole school approach; making the best of existing provision, e.g., local authority RSOs, free resources, etc; developing a spiral curriculum for your school; conducting school based surveys; linking road safety to your school travel plan; running a competition to promote road safety; and links to useful sources of information about the Healthy Schools programme and about road safety. The pack will be written for Healthy Schools Co-ordinators. The resource will be produced as a printed publication and as a pdf on RoSPA’s website. The printed version will be freely available while stocks last, and the web version will remain freely available.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - (ROSPA). £16,567

Travel Training for Work Experience Students. This project will produce a resource to support travel training in secondary schools and colleges. It will comprise a guide and teaching materials and would be of use to teachers, work experience coordinators, transition workers, the connexions service and other services involved in the placement of young people, health and safety advisors and employers. The resource will be produced as a printed publication and as a pdf on RoSPA’s website. The printed version will be freely available while stocks last, and the web version will remain freely available.

UK Youth Parliament. £3,835

UN World Youth Assembly On Road Safety. This project  supported two young people (and a member of UKYP staff) from the UK  who attended the UN’s World Youth Assembly on Road Safety in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 April 2007.  The young people represented their peers on the issues of child safety, improving safety of vulnerable of road users, and consider how to tackle the higher incidence of injuries among disadvantaged communities.

The two representatives will work with staff from the Department for Transport to share the knowledge that they have obtained, and develop a piece of work to be delivered at the UK Youth Parliament’s Annual Sitting in July 2007, which will look at how young people in the UK can work together and with local authorities to tackle road safety in their communities.

£327,800

Total Grants made under Road Safety Grant Challenge Fund 2007/08