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.

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.

2025/26 funded projects

The projects being funded during 2025/26 through the Community Grant Fund are:

• A Greener Melrose – eBikes for Borderers
• Bikes for Refugees – New Scots Bike Inclusion
• Borders Wheels – Walk It Indoor Walking
• Bridgend Farmhouse – Community on the Move
• CLEAR Buckhaven and Methil – Biking Buckhaven Methil
• Linlithgow Community Development Trust – Move for Good
• North Edinburgh Arts – Getting there Together
• Parents for Future Scotland – Air Pollution and Active Travel
• Polbeth Community Hub – Safer Routes to School
• Porty Community Energy – PATH (Porty Active Travel Hub)
• Recyke-a-Bike – Falkirk Schools Cycle Smart
• SCORE Scotland – Wester Hailes Walk, Pedal, Thrive
• Sea the Change – Cycle for Change
• SHRUB Cooperative – Wee Spoke Hub
• Stow Cycle Hub CIC – Stow Cycle Hub