People and Place Community Grant Fund

People and Place Community Grant Fund

The People and Place Community Grant Fund is to support community organisations looking to deliver sustainable transport projects. The grant fund is for community groups, community interest companies and charities delivering in the SEStran region and for projects with a value between £5,000 to £50,000.

Projects can focus solely on active travel or sustainable transport interventions or a combination of both elements. Projects must align with at least one of the three key People and Place themes – schools and young people, workplaces and accessibility and inclusion.

This fund is currently closed for applications. Scroll down for our 2026/27 funding timeline.

People and Place themes

⇒ Schools and young people

Interventions in Scottish schools that deliver holistic solutions for creating an environment where active and sustainable travel choices are not only an option, but the most effective ways to travel for young people and families.

⇒ Workplaces

Interventions that focus on places of work, that make active and sustainable travel choices a realistic solution for commuting for staff and volunteers. These could include investment in workplace cycle storage/parking or maintenance provision, or incentivisation schemes that make walking, wheeling, cycling and public transport a more attractive choices to private car use.

⇒ Accessibility and inclusion 

Interventions that focus on inclusion of underrepresented groups in Scotland who might face additional barriers to active and sustainable travel, such as cost, social perception, culture, health, ability, and geographical location. Interventions should integrate a good engagement with groups who face such barriers and aim at significantly reducing them to increase opportunities to choose active and sustainable travel.

Application timeline

Pre-application support: 15 December 2025 – 12 January 2026

Application guidance

Applications open: 12 January 2006

Applications close: 6 February 2026

Decision in principle: w/c 2 March 2026

At this stage, it is anticipated that decisions will be issued in principle subject to confirmation of funding for the People and Place Plan from Transport Scotland and SEStran Board approval of the 2026/27 partnership budget.