Grant guide
Cycling and active travel grants
Active travel funding can support walking, wheeling, cycling, infrastructure, innovation and behaviour-change projects. Applicant route is often the key eligibility question.
Teams deciding where to spend application time
Community groups, CICs, local authorities, schools, clubs and active travel partnerships reviewing live funding opportunities.
Make the first review more concrete
Find cycling and active travel grants in the UK.
Review workflow
What FundingLens helps you do
Keep source facts, caveats and next actions together so your team can decide what deserves attention before application work starts.
Check whether the source is open to community organisations or routed through local authorities, schools, transport bodies or partnerships.
Map the project to walking, wheeling, cycling, infrastructure, innovation, access, safety, health or environmental outcomes.
Record permissions, landowner issues, community need, delivery partners, maintenance, evaluation and deadline constraints.
Readiness checks
- Applicant route and delivery role understood.
- Active travel outcome and geography matched.
- Permissions and partner evidence assigned.
- Eligible costs and maintenance responsibilities checked.
- Deadline and source status verified.
Eligibility caveats
- Many active travel funds are public-body or partnership led.
- Infrastructure projects can need permissions before grant readiness.
- Older Find a Grant records may be closed or superseded.
Source references
Use Active Travel England funding pages to check walking, wheeling and cycling programme purpose and public-body delivery routes.
Official sourceActive Travel Innovation FundUse the Find a Grant record as an example of active travel funding with source URL, status, applicant route and deadline fields.
Official sourceGOV.UK Find a grantUse the official UK grant listing to verify live eligibility, deadlines and funder guidance. FundingLens records the source URL and fetched date when it reviews an item.
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