Successful projects under the Road Safety Grant Challenge Fund 2006-2007
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BRAKE |
Teaching Resources Road Safety Week 2006. This project will fund the free educational resources Brake produces annually for teachers of (a) nursery/primary age pupils and (b) secondary age pupils, as part of Road Safety Week. Over the past two years these resources have become increasingly internet-based with the majority of resources produced for 2005 being available solely on Brake's Road Safety Week website, www.roadsafetyweek.org.uk . This project will allow Brake to review and update its current resources, produce web-based resources on the specific theme of Road Safety Week 2006 - young drivers, with the strap-line "Too Young To Die" - and signpost these resources effectively so that teachers know of their availability and are encouraged to access and use them during Road Safety Week and throughout the school year. |
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BRAKE |
Fleet Management Benchmarking website and development group. This project aims to improve work related road safety data at an organisational level and will part fund a benchmarking website for fleet managers, providing accessible on-line benchmarking information and data relating to crash rates, risk management practices and appropriate safety interventions where hazards are identified. |
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BRAKE |
Fleet Safety Information Sheet and Poster for Managers and Drivers. This project will produce an information pack consisting of a four to five-sided information sheet for managers, a one to two-sided advice sheet for young drivers and a poster which can be put on display on company premises. The information for managers will give advice about addressing the risks faced by young drivers within their companies. |
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CAPT |
Child Safety Week 2006. CAPT's Child Safety Week is an annual community education campaign designed to increase public knowledge of key accident issues and effective prevention measures, and encourage practitioners to adopt a multi-agency partnership approach to child accident prevention. Child road safety will be one of five key issues highlighted during Child Safety Week 2006. Topics highlighted will include:
This year's CSW will run from 19 to 25 June with the overarching theme "Avoid the worst. Put child safety first". |
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Educari Ltd |
Road Safety for Students with Special needs. This project will produce a resource for use by educators, with a wide range of children, and young people with special needs, focusing on KS2-3. The resource will consist of a DVD and Educators' Booklet. The DVD will contain a series of interviews with children and young people with special needs and some of their parents or carers. These interviews, presented in a lively 'MTV-style' fashion, will explore the particular issues faced by children and young people with special needs in relation to road safety. The DVD will also include questions, activities, etc, which will make it a valuable educational resource. |
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Patiko Bakers Fort Project |
Buckle Up. This project will fund a 90 minute drama aimed at 16-25 years olds from Black & Minority Ethic Backgrounds dealing with issues of drink driving, drugs and basic safety issues such as seatbelts and mobile phone usage. The project aims to work with youth from deprived areas of London to develop a new wave of attitude towards road safety and raising awareness using drama as a key medium. It aims to "make it cool!! to actively be safe on the road." The play will be co-written and produced by young people and 20 of them will develop and act in the original play. It is planned that 70 Institutions will get to see the play, including colleges, churches, universities, youth groups, festivals and clubs. 10,000 youths will be able to watch the Buckle Up play which will be performed at venues including colleges, churches, universities youth groups. It is anticipated that 70% of them will become more aware of road safety and take measures and precautions to be safer on the road. |
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RoSPA |
Safer motorcycling through work. The project would produce advice for employers on how to encourage staff who ride motorcycles (for work commuting or leisure) to take part in rider assessment and training. The resource would be in hard and electronic format. Hard copies will be distributed widely and there will be electronic copies on RoSPA and ORSA websites. |
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RoSPA |
Driving for work: in-vehicle technology. This project would produce advice for employers on the benefits and potential problems of in-vehicle technology, such as SatNavs, speed warning, and vehicle monitoring devices, for staff who drive for work. The resource would set the use of in-vehicle technology in the context of managing occupational road risk and include a sample policy that could be adopted or tailored to specific needs. It would help employers to make informed decisions on the use of in-vehicle technology to gain the best benefit from their investment. It would help them to assess their benefits and dis-benefits and consider extra measures, such as education or training, for staff who have such technology in their vehicles. |
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RoSPA |
Carrying other people's children safely. This project will produce a simple advice leaflet aimed at people who carry other people's children in their car, or in taxis, on buses, coaches or minibuses. The resource should raise awareness of the legal obligations of anyone who transports someone else's children or gives advice on how they can do this safely. It will be aimed at a wide audience including:
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RoSPA |
Online pedestrian injury simulator. This project will produce an online pedestrian injury simulator to highlight the increased likelihood and severity of pedestrian injuries caused by drivers who speed. It will be designed to encourage drivers and pre-drivers to understand the effects of small differences in speed and to think about the consequences of their actions. The simulator will show an urban environment. Users will be able to set the speed of the car, whether the driver was impaired by alcohol or mobile phone use and whether the road was wet or dry. Based on the settings, the simulator would calculate the thinking and braking distance of a car driver. The simulator would then run, illustrating the thinking and stopping distances and show whether the pedestrian would have been hit, and, if so, the likely level of injuries. The injuries will be described in text. The simulator would show the scene from a driver's viewpoint and as an overhead view to better illustrate the stopping distances. |
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RoSPA |
Theatre in Education: Teachers Support resource. This project will produce a resource to help schools maximise the road safety education benefit of visits by theatre-in-education (TIE) companies by helping the school to prepare for the visit and to conduct activities afterwards to reinforce its road safety messages. The resource will include advice on:
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RoSPA |
Driving for work: Driver assessment and training. This project will produce advice for employers on developing and implementing a policy on driver assessment and development for staff who drive or ride for work. It will set assessment and training within the context of managing occupational road risk and include a sample policy that could be adopted as written or tailored to particular needs. It should help employers to make informed decisions on the provision of driver training and so gain maximum benefit from their training budgets. It will help to ensure they have practical and effective systems for assessing the risk to staff who drive and, based on that assessment, of providing targeted training and/or education in a priority order to address first those at the highest risk and/or with greater development needs. |
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RoSPA |
Volunteer Drivers Guide. This project would produce a booklet for volunteer drivers working in charities and voluntary organisations. This booklet will be aimed at drivers to highlight their duties and legal responsibilities to ensure their own and their passengers' safety by following the policies set out by the organisation for which they work as a volunteer. It would include advice on:
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RoSPA |
Promoting Refresher Driving Training Toolkit. This project will produce a Toolkit to help driver training providers, insurers and others to promote refresher driver training. It will be aimed at training providers, (including ADIs, RoADA and IAM local groups) insurers, trade unions, police, motor dealers and others in a position to promote refresher driver training. It will include guidance to help them explain what refresher driver training involves and its benefits and how to overcome deterrents to undertaking further driver training. It should help them to develop ways of encouraging people to pursue refresher driver training. |
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Society for the Advancement of Black Arts |
Safe Stepping. This project is for a national Road Safety Awareness campaign through Spring and Summer 2006, aimed at built up, disadvantaged, urban areas of the following areas: London; East (Hackney), West (Paddington) , North (Tottenham), South (Brixton), Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Cardiff and Glasgow. The campaign will work with networks of local community groups. A music showcase and talent show will be run at a selected venue in each of the areas around the road safety message "Safe Stepping". "Safe" is a street slang term that means everything is OK, as well as being safe. "Stepping" is the term used to describe getting from A to B whether by walking, riding or driving. Categories will be the following age ranges: under 11s, 12-15s and 16-19s. After the initial events a grand finale will be held in London where selected winners of the regional events will be invited to take part, whilst contributing members of the community groups would be able to attend. "Safe Stepping" will be supported by a PR campaign using national press, local press, internet, digital TV, internet radio, web site promotion and sms texting. By the finale, it is aimed to have 2,000 children and young people registered as "Safe Steppers" across the UK. |
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The Sunni Muslim Association |
Arts Based Community Road Safety Project. This is a neighbourhood-based project based in Brideoak Street, Cheetham, Manchester. It aims to work in partnership with a wide range of agencies including parents and young children. The project will involve joint working with Sure Start, Primary Care Trust, Youth Service, Mosque leaders, community Artists, local Schools and taxi firms. It will highlight local road safety issues by producing artwork and a drama based on road safety education and to deliver road safety education through artwork in the form of an exhibition/drama to other environments using a peer led educational approach. The work developed will be showcased in other similar disadvantaged communities. |
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£252,462.32 |
Total Grants made under Road Safety Grant Challenge Fund 2006/07 |
