Community Transport Grants

National charity Motability has announced it will provide £50 million to UK charities and organisations in the accessible transport sector from 2022 to 2025, starting with two new funding streams:

• Community Transport Grants
• Wheelchair Sector Grants

There is a focus on medium and large charities and non-profit organisations with well-established ways of working. As such, applicants must have been active for three years, with an annual income of at least £150,000 in that time.

Community Transport Grants should be used to cover:

• Staffing and/or volunteer costs to increase supply of Community Transport services.
• Leasing or buying Community Transport vehicles
• Initiatives to influence transport strategy, policy and funding.
• Partnerships/collaborations which drive efficiency at the organisational and systems level.
• Best practice interventions to continue/scale up work.

Who can apply:

Through this new grant programme we aim to help charities and organisations to make an immediate impact for disabled people, by awarding funding to develop, expand and improve community transport options. We are focussing our grant making for this programme on:

• Funding support for staff or volunteer training and costs.
• to increase the number of vehicles available in the community to help organisations support disabled people.
• Funding local, regional, or national initiatives to increase awareness of community transport and influence its inclusion in transport strategy and policy.
• Funding to schemes, programmes and initiatives that already exist, and who provide best practice solutions, but need further support to remain operational or scale up the service they can provide to help more disabled people.

If any of the above are relevant to your charity or organisation, please take some time to read further down this website page and review the documents included within our guidance for applicants section below.