Active Travel Grant Scheme

Boost productivity, cut congestion, and relieve workplace parking pressure by applying for a Smarter Travel to Work grant from Active Surrey by 14th November 2025. The Smarter Travel to Work grant scheme supports employers fulfil their travel plans and enable more staff to travel to work actively, on foot, by bicycle, and on public transport.

Want to improve pedestrian access within your site, organise events to raise awareness of public transport options, improve cycling facilities? Keen to help your staff travel to work more healthily, actively and sustainably? Apply for a Smarter Travel to Work grant today!

The Smarter Travel to Work grant scheme offers grants of up to £5,000.  Grant awards are exclusive of VAT.

Active Surrey’s Smarter Travel to Work toolkits support employers to create high-quality travel plans in clearly explained steps with templates and tools to help. To be eligible for a grant, you must have used the toolkit to develop a workplace travel plan or have followed a similar process. 

Phase 1 of the Active Travel Grant Scheme closes in November. Applications must be received by 14 November 2025.

Examples of travel plan interventions, for which the grant could be used are:

• Improvement of pedestrian access within your site
• Events to promote walking and cycling and public transport use, such as sustainable travel breakfast events, on-site bike maintenance courses, Dr Bike repair sessions.
• Introduction of a parking scheme to prioritise on-site car parking spaces for those with particular needs, to repurpose car parking spaces, or to introduce traffic restrictions or a car parking levy to support sustainable travel interventions.
• Shuttle bus promotion / incentives
• Bus taster tickets
• Improved cycle parking, drying facilities, shower facilities
• Lockers
• Provision of pool bikes
• Staff accessory giveaways to encourage sustainable travel choices such as backpacks, re-useable water bottles, bike locks, bike panniers, bike helmets, bike lights.

• The employer must have a travel plan in place, which was created or reviewed within the last two years.
• A staff travel survey conducted in the last two years which informed the travel plan.
• The employer’s intervention site must be located in the county of Surrey, or a significant proportion of the intervention site’s workers must travel to work from/through Surrey.
• At least one quote per project item must be submitted with the grant application (links to online quotes are acceptable).
• Procurement should favour the most sustainable, environmentally friendly options where they realistically exist.
• The project delivery must commence within 3 months of the date of payment of the grant, and any facilities funded by the grant must be available for a period of at least 3 years.
• Grants will not be awarded retrospectively.
• Employers previously awarded a Smarter Travel to Work grant are not eligible for additional grants under this scheme. 
• Employers must have an Environmental Social Governance (ESG) / Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy in place
• Match-funded applications are welcomed.
• You will need to complete a post-grant questionnaire and provide photographic evidence, receipts and a short case study.
• Any relevant permission for the proposed intervention (i.e. planning consent or landlord permission) must be obtained by the applicant to install facilities as necessary, and evidence must be provided with the application.
• The grant funding cannot be used to pay for facilities/projects that are conditions eg of planning consent for a development.
• The grant covers the net price of the measure only. Active Surrey is unable to provide funding for VAT. The VAT cost must be covered by the applicant.
• The grant is repayable if terms laid out in the Grant Agreement Particulars are not fulfilled.

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