Successful projects under the Road Safety Grant Challenge Fund 2004-2005

The British Horse Society

£18,500

Safety Training CD Rom. The project will produce an Interactive Training and Safety CD Rom (x2,000) for use by BHS Riding & Road Safety training and education. Others could apply to the BHS for copies. It will inform riders and other road users what to expect when they meet on the road and how they might behave. It aims to be an invaluable resource which can be updated from day to day

Bexley Cycling and Road Safety Forum

£1,000

Adult Cycling Safety Leaflets. The leaflets aim to raise awareness of the optimum way of tackling traffic situations, such as HGVs and increase understanding of road positioning for cyclists. The main difference between the this proposed leaflet and other leaflets is that this leaflet will be illustrated

Brake

£10,000

Road Safety Week Action Packs. The project is for the funding of Road Safety Week "action packs" for school teachers, nursery leaders and youth club leaders and supporting posters. Two action packs will be produced: one for teachers of nursery and primary age children (x10,000); the other for teachers of secondary school children (x3,000). Brake is also producing a supportive Road Safety Week website where teachers can download additional educational resources.

Brake

£10,675

Leaflet on drink and drugged driving. The project will produce a leaflet aimed at educating young drivers (age 17-21 years old) on the dangers of drink and drug driving. It particularly focuses on raising awareness that just one or two drinks can affect your driving abilities.

Brake

17,468

Fleet Safety Advice for Managers and Drivers. This project will produce advice sheets for fleet managers and drivers. The 4 advice sheets planned over the coming year will be researched, written, printed and distributed free to Brake's 1,000 subscribers and the 3,000 others on their database and put on Brake's website.

CAPT

£19,517

Children's Play in Disadvantaged Areas. The project is designed to develop a methodology and guidelines that can be used elsewhere to evaluate the effect of road safety measures on children's play in disadvantaged areas. It will link closely with the evaluation of our initiative to reduce road casualties by dealing with disadvantage being run in Greater Manchester and Lancashire.

CAPT

£10,000

Child Safety Week 2004. The theme for Child Safety Week 2004 is Check it, don't chance it!. The theme will be applied to road safety via, for example checks of: cycle helmets, child car seats, use of booster seats and cushions, encouraging drivers to check their speed (especially in built up areas where children play) and encouraging child pedestrians to stop and check the road before they step off the kerb. .

CAPT

£19,490

Midwives Training Package on In-Car Safety. This project aims to increase both the overall use and the correct use of baby car seats, by developing a training package for midwives, on carrying babies safely in cars. Its objectives are to increase midwives' knowledge of the importance of in-car safety and equip them to pass advice on to new parents.

Community Welfare Trust Birmingham

£8,450

Safe Man. This project will develop a Comic Hero & Magazine called "Safe Man. The comic will be used as a platform to promote some of the main aspects of road safety to children from disadvantaged communities of the inner-city areas of Birmingham.

CREATE A FUTURE/

SETPOINT

£20,000

Solving the Problems of Road Safety. The project will contribute to the improvement of road safety by working with young people (KS3/4 - aged 11-16) on solving road safety problems in their locality within the context of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). The project will be a new approach to road safety in schools.

Dreamweavers Theatre Co.

£4,950

Consequences. This is an application for the creation and development of a one hour play on novice driver safety, drivers attitude to speed, improving safety of vulnerable road users and drinking and driving. The target group is 16 - 19 year olds.

LIFE CYCLE UK

£19,980

Safety Video for Cycle Instructors. This project will produce a 20 minute video for Cycle Training Instructors. The video will reinforce training in the field, crucially demonstrating best practice standards in cycle training. The video will strengthen the new National Standards for cycle training by emphasising the key areas that instructors need to cover to ensure that training is safe.

MVA

£20,000

Resource Pack for Kerbcraft Volunteer Training Video. We are currently funding 103 road safety training schemes between 2002-2006 based around the "Kerbcraft" Model. The proposed resource pack will assist the ongoing management and evaluation of these schemes. The pack will provide reference material for Kerbcraft co-ordinators, reinforcing the key objectives and methods for training each Kerbcraft skill at the roadside. The pack will complement the training video we grant funded last year.

ROADPEACE

£6,158

Against Aggressive Driving Project. RoadPeace will work in partnership with Road Safety Officers to highlight the dangers and effects of speeding, red light running and tailgating. It seeks to protect vulnerable road users in particular pedestrians by focusing on drivers' duty to give way to pedestrians in a number of situations when pedestrians are in the process of crossing the road as per highway code. It will highlight the effects of road dangers on families and communities through real testimonies given directly through public talks or/and as part of a printed briefing and distribute a briefing 'against aggressive driving' to local schools, universities and at public road safety events.

RoSPA

£17,522.20

Rural Road Safety Resource. This project will produce a road safety education resource for use with primary school age children living in rural areas. The resource will highlight the different environment and the different conditions in the countryside. Speed limits are higher, with some children crossing roads with 60mph limits. There are fewer footpaths and children need to use the verge and know that they need to walk facing oncoming traffic.

RoSPA

£13,123.70

Revision of "Road Safety: An Elected Members Guide". This project will produce an updated version of "Road Safety: An Elected Member's Guide". The guide is designed to help elected members of local authorities to understand the statutory duty of the local authority to promote road safety as defined in the 1988 Road Traffic Act and to provide guidance on how the statutory duty can best be implemented. It provides guidance on the Elected Member's role, road safety targets, the road safety service, making the best use of road safety resources and the "four Es" of road safety: education, engineering, enforcement and encouragement.

RoSPA

10,367.25

Mobile Phones and Driving for Employers. This project will produce advice, including a sample policy, for employers on the use of mobile phones while driving for work. Although the resource would refer to the ban on hand held mobile phones, it would mainly focus on the dangers of using hands free phones whilst driving.

RoSPA

£10,370.60

School Assembly Songs on Audio CD. This project will produce an audio CD of accompanying music of the road safety songs from the school assembly plans that RoSPA produced, so that the music can be played on a portable CD player in school assemblies.

RoSPA

10,367.25

Company Speed Policy. This project will produce advice, including a sample policy, for employers on developing and implementing a policy on speed for their staff who drive for work. The sample policy could be adopted as written or tailored to particular needs.

RoSPA

£19,841.55

Refresher Driver Training. This project will map the provision of voluntary further driver training and produce an advice resource to promote refresher driver training. The project will focus on post-test refresher training.

The movement for non-mobile children (Whizz-Kidz)

£20,000

Road Safety Professionals Training Course. This project will pilot a road safety training professionals training course. The course aims to ensure that road safety officers are fully aware of the specific hazards faced by wheelchair user pedestrians and could, therefore, provide high quality and standardised level of training

The Portman Group

£11,250

"I'll be Des" The proposals are for the production of "I'll be Des" campaign materials for Road Safety Officer's and others.

Smethwick Asian Sheltered & Residential Assoc.

£18,500

Musafir. This project will produce 10,000 copies X 2 of a magazine called Musafir which would use Asian models/people to illustrate how to be safe on our roads. It will be published in Urdu, Panjabi and English and aimed at the large number of Indians, Pakistani's and Kasmiri's who live in Sandwell. It will also be provided on the web.

Turkish Cypriot Community Association

£10,307

Turkish Road Safety Project. This project will produce road safety material that is culturally appropriate and in Turkish. It aims to adapt existing road safety materials. The project will produce 3,000 copies of a 20 page booklet related to road safety, 6 articles (one a month) in the Turkish newspaper "Toplum Postas" and 16 page website with space for two gigs of information.

£337,837.55

Total Grants made under Road Safety Grant Challenge Fund 2004/05