Delivery Partner:
Argyll and Bute Council (in partnership with Cycling UK)

Total Funding Award:
£123,590.00

Project Overview:
This project was based in Helensburgh with outreach to other locations within the Helensburgh and Lomond area of Argyll and Bute.

This project engaged individuals, communities and local organisations such as workplaces in walking, wheeling and cycling activities to support modal shift from car to bike for short, everyday journeys. Like Cycling UK’s other place-based activities, this project focused on supporting those that are underserved/underrepresented in active travel due to financial exclusion, culture, health conditions, and disability. The project worked closely with local community organisations that deliver services to people that would be unable to participate in walking, cycling, and wheeling without support. Activities have included cycle confidence sessions, led rides, health walks, cycle loans, outreach to local workplaces, and family cycling sessions.

The project delivered behaviour change interventions to support the development of local infrastructure including the priority, cross-boundary Helensburgh – Cardross – Dumbarton route and the Helensburgh & Garelochhead route. By linking up active travel routes and making this a realistic option for people, the project helped to create greater access for local residents and visitors to essential services such as health, education and community links.

Delivery Partner:
Ayrshire Roads Alliance on behalf of South & East Ayrshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£450,000.00

Project Overview:
This project supported Behaviour Change Officers working alongside Ayrshire Roads Alliance who are currently developing over 200km of active travel routes across South and East Ayrshire. These staff members engaged with the public, liaised with ARA design teams, completed audits of cycle parking facilities across the Local Authorities, and completed various behaviour change activities such as planning led rides, assisting with route planning within workplaces, managing pool bikes, and improving access to bikes within primary and secondary schools.

Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£580,800.00

Project Overview:
This project:

• Worked with schools, colleges and universities to provide grants, technical and project management support for cycle and scooter parking and storage.
• Provided a framework for ongoing improvements and making organisations cycling friendly.
• Targeted support where new infrastructure, such as School Streets, are being introduced.
• Worked with schools, youth organisations, Local Authority partners and third sector community groups to expand access to bikes for young people.

The programme has worked to improve destination facilities for cycling, making it easier to travel by bike, and expands affordable access to bikes.

Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£275,000.00

Project Overview:
The Access to Bikes programme enabled a change in travel behaviour to more sustainable ways of travelling. The project enabled bike repair, refurbishment and redistribution by working with local authorities’ waste recycling services and bike recycling organisations, including social enterprises, to ensure affordable bikes are available and enable more people to cycle.

The project principally provided bikes in the community and social housing settings.

Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£232,000.00

Project Overview:
Cycling Scotland has been working with Local Authorities and Registered Social Landlords across the west of Scotland to develop and expand cycle storage for residential areas that don’t currently have somewhere safe to store a bike. Key actions and deliverables of the Cycle Parking programme include:

• Provision of grants, technical and/or project management support.
• Target support where new infrastructure is planned or being introduced.

This project provided secure cycle storage and parking, enabling a change in travel behaviour to more sustainable and healthier ways of travelling.

The project builds on work with Housing Associations and SPT constituent councils across the west of Scotland that has been ongoing through Cycling Scotland in previous years.

Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£183,000.00

Project Overview:
Cycling Scotland has provided paid internships across colleges and universities to get more students and staff cycling at Glasgow Kelvin College, University of Glasgow, and Glasgow School of Art. Campus Cycling Officers use the Cycling Friendly award framework to improve facilities, communication and influence policy at campus locations to encourage greater levels of active travel for staff and students. This has the benefit of creating full time job roles, developing capacity across the sector, and improving cycling services at these campuses.

Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£216,000.00

Project Overview:
Cycling Scotland has been supporting workplaces across the west of Scotland for nearly 20 years to increase numbers of people commuting to work through active modes, and utilising active travel for business travel purpose. Key actions and deliverables of the Workplace Cycle Parking Programme are:

• Provision of cycle parking & storage in business parks / major employment centres, including NHS and Local Authority sites.
• Support for travel planning – integrating active travel and public transport.
• Provision of Cycling Friendly award framework for employers and staff, enabling support and ongoing improvements.

Target support where new infrastructure is planned or being introduced.

Delivery Partner:
Cycling UK

Total Funding Award:
£1,217,399.00

Project Overview:
The Cycle Access Fund is an access to bikes grant fund, enabling organisations to support access to bikes in their community, and is particularly focused on supporting people that are financially struggling. The CAF has been open to any organisation that works closely with its community, such as offering continued support through its activities so individuals are able to use their cycles for the purpose intended. Cycling UK’s knowledge and experience of running similar grant funds has shown that tailoring the offer to individuals’ specific needs, and providing holistic support where required, is the most effective and sustainable way to disperse capital funds.

The grant runs according to four funding streams:

1. New: to community organisations working with those that are financially struggling to enable a cycle and equipment to be purchased for them
2. Shared: to organisations to purchase cycles and equipment that enable cycle sharing schemes such as bike libraries, pool cycles, bike subscription schemes, loan cycles and bike share schemes.
3. Repair: to bike repair organisations/bike recycling centres and bike shops to repair cycles belonging to people that are financially struggling

Recycle: to bike repair organisations/ bike recycling centres to repair cycles for donation to people that are financially struggling.

Delivery Partner:
Cycling UK

Total Funding Award:
£137,368.00

Project Overview:
The Inverclyde Bothy launched in in May 2018 and has worked with individuals experiencing low levels of physical activity and poor health in a challenging environment for active travel. The Bothy staff and volunteers delivered walking, cycling and wheeling activities to individuals, groups and communities. Supporting those that are underserved or underrepresented in active travel due to financial exclusion, culture, health conditions, and disability, the project works closely with local community organisations that deliver services to people that would be unable to participate in active travel without support. Activities include cycle confidence sessions, led rides, health walks, cycle loans, outreach to local workplaces and family cycling sessions.

Local partners include Belville Community Garden, Community Tracks, Parklea Branching Out, Moving on (supporting people in recovery), NHS (Community Links workers), SFAD (Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs), Holiday Inn (asylum seekers), Inverclyde Shed, SAMH, Enable, Your Voice, Lyle Gateway and HSCP.

Alongside its focus on inclusion, the Inverclyde Bothy worked to deliver behaviour change interventions to support the use of local infrastructure as the infrastructure develops. By helping people link up the active travel routes and making this a realistic option for people the project aimed to create greater access for residents to access essential services such as health, education and community support.

Delivery Partner:
East Dunbartonshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£50,000.00 

Project Overview:
This project was implemented to allow schools and nurseries across East Dunbartonshire Council to purchase their own bike/scooter fleets and associated storage and equipment.

Over a number of years the Council has invested in bikes fleets and equipment for many primary and secondary schools across EDC. As a result of this, EDC note from working with these schools that the more they are engaged and have such opportunities, the more pupils change their travel behaviour.

The bike fleets can be used by multiple schools where the EDC IBike officers transport from school to school. It is not proposed that pupils take these bikes home but have access through cycle training, activities and events.

Delivery Partner:
East Renfrewshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£40,000.00

Project Overview:
Love to Ride is an interactive cycling app-based challenge which aims to encourage people who are not currently cycling to start cycling; to encourage occasional cyclists to cycle more regularly; to encourage those who are not currently cycling to work to commute by bike; to close the gender gap in cycling participation in East Renfrewshire; to provide measurable results so that increases in everyday cycling uptake can be tracked.

Delivery Partner:
East Renfrewshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£30,000.00

Project Overview:
This project aimed to provide travel planning guidance for pupils transitioning from primary to secondary school. The project focused on encouraging students to travel sustainably to their new high school by developing travel plans that identified alternatives to being driven to school by a parent or carer.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Bike for Good)

Total Funding Award:
£212,880.00

Project Overview:
In partnership with Glasgow City Council, Bike for Good’s Access to Bikes programme tackles multiple levels of access to bikes, making cycling available to all. Bike for Good focuses on increasing the number of people in Glasgow with access to bikes, by running programmes that tackle transport poverty and increasing access for commuters across the city to increase the number of journeys completed by bike.

The programmes supported by this project through Bike for Good were:

• SWITCH UP - the first subscription-based bike rental service by Bike for Good. A micro-mobility platform that enables people to access a bike as a mode of transportation. The project support subsidised memberships for individuals who had no means to access a bike.
• Refurbished Bikes - providing free refurbished bikes to the community. The Bike for Good workshop team refurbished donated bikes, ensuring they are roadworthy and ready to use. This intervention aimed at supporting low-income households and young people.
• E-cargo Bike Library - to support local businesses by providing an environmentally friendly and low-cost way to deliver goods and allowing families to swap out a second car.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Bike for Good)

Total Funding Award:
£140,148.00

Project Overview:
In partnership with Glasgow City Council, Bike for Good’s safe cycling work aims to enable people to ride a bike and make cycling a safer option for all. Providing cyclists an opportunity to build their confidence and creating an environment for them to choose cycling as their preferred method of transport.

This was achieved through:

• One-to-one and group cycle training rides: once ready to progress from training to cycling, Bike for Good design a series of rides to enable the user to put their new skills to use while under the guidance and support of a cycle trainer. Bike for Good use the Essential Cycling Skills syllabus to get individuals cycling more.
• Bespoke Bike-Buddy rides: Bike for Good help the commuter plan their regular commute and cycle it with them so they can practice and learn a route that they feel truly comfortable with.
• Regular weekly group confidence-building rides: users are invited to these group rides. Group cycling is a great way to increase confidence, de-stress, and meet new people.
• Cargo Bike training - providing new cargo users with 3 hours of mandatory safety training.
• Curious Commuter Event - raising awareness amongst key communities, including at universities and colleges, distributing flyers, and further information about Bike for Goods services.

The target audience of this project are adults who are new or returning to cycling who live or work in or around either of the two Bike for Good Hubs in Glasgow (South and West), with a particular focus on those experiencing economic hardship and disadvantage and from BAME communities and Students in Glasgow.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Bike for Good)

Total Funding Award:
£142,572.00

Project Overview:
Glasgow City Council in partnership with Bike for Good's Training & Employability programme aimed at improving the life chances of young people and adults who are not engaged in full-time education or employment. Through the delivery of this project, Bike for Good aimed at improving the safety of everyone who chooses to cycle, as well as supporting the increasing number of bikes in Glasgow. The Training & Employability programme comprised the following initiatives:

• The New Scots programme working in partnership with a range of community organisations to support underrepresented groups.
• Bike maintenance days - taster days as an introduction to maintenance at Bike for Good.
• Change Cycle Build Your Own Bike (BYOB) - addressing unemployment through week-long courses teaching people how to build a bike from scratch. Participants will also receive a bike and training. BYOB also aims to engage refugees, asylum seekers, and those underrepresented in cycling, such as women and those with long-term mental and physical health conditions.
• Fix Your Own Bike (FYOB) sessions including specific Women and Non-Binary sessions.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council

Total Funding Award:
£28,000.00

Project Overview:
Nextbike by TIER has been Glasgow City Council’s (GCC) bikeshare provider since 2014, and the initiative has recently celebrated over 2 million journeys. Nextbike has continually looked to support local community initiatives, large-scale events, small and large organisations' active travel - including universities and charities over its 8 years of operation.

Nextbike, in partnership with GCC and Bike for Good, over 2024/25 continued to offer the Bikes For All initiative whereby Nextbike provide annual memberships for free to Glasgow’s public cycle hire scheme throughout Glasgow. This provides free 60-minute rides using a sustainable form of transport for people living in the most deprived areas of Glasgow.

As part of the initiative, Bike for Good provides rider training events - strengthening the impact of the initiative and giving cycling confidence to low-income people.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Cycling UK)

Total Funding Award:
£126,218.00

Project Overview:
Play Together on Pedals (PTOP) is a pre-school family focused project. It aims to give every pre-school child the opportunity to develop skills and confidence to learn to ride a bike. PTOP is a project delivered by Cycling UK, aimed at helping children learn to ride a bicycle and develop cycling confidence from an early age. Aligned with the Schools and Young People theme of the People and Place Programme, the project pursued two main objectives:

• Delivering cycling lesson sessions for children – both through PTOP and the Pop Up Bike Park.
• Distributing grant funding to schools and nurseries.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Drumchapel Cycle Hub)

Total Funding Award:
£75,000.00

Project Overview:
The ‘Training & Bike Repair Programme’ delivered by Drumchapel Cycle Hub based in the northwest of Glasgow provides a number of regular cycling activities for various target groups. The project started in 2016 with local events and services in partnership with local groups and schools. The aim of the project is to be as inclusive as possible, providing services for local families and individuals. In an area of low income, low rank on the SIMD scale, the project supports people to start cycling, build their cycling skills and knowledge. It enables people to cycle independently, ride with friends and family, and get out to meet people socially. Further support is also provided by repairing bikes and distributing second-hand bikes to those who cannot afford their own. The key activities of the project include:

• Learn to ride and cycling skills, for adults and children
• Group cycling from beginners to intermediate
• Bike maintenance skills
• Bike repair and refurbish of second hand bikes
• Dr Bike drop in sessions at various locations.

All these activities aim to increase the number of people cycling for everyday short journeys. A large part of this project is done in partnership with other local organisations including community links, youth project, schools and other support organisations who refer individuals to Drumchapel Cycle Hub. Key target groups include families on low incomes (working with children in the schools and adults), individuals dealing with mental health and support needs, families with Additional Support Need children, women and girls, refugees and asylum seekers, and children with support needs in local schools.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Women on Wheels)

Total Funding Award:
£50,000.00

Project Overview:
Statistics show that men undertake twice as many cycling journeys than women in Scotland. Women face additional barriers compared to men to cycle regularly and Women on Wheels (WW) was established to tackle these.

WW is a community cycling hub based in Govanhill, Glasgow, providing a service, designed by, tailor-made and led by women for women. Prior to WW there was no dedicated service which was specifically aimed at empowering and enabling women to overcome barriers to cycling. It is only when the many benefits of cycling are considered, such as, environmental, cost-cutting, improved physical and mental health, sense of community to name a few, that the need for such a service becomes imperative.

This project involved:

• Multiple weekly learn to ride Cycling lesson (group and 1 to 1)
• Multiple weekly Confidence Building Led Rides ranging from those who have just learned to peddle to all day rides so there is something to stretch and push everyone no matter their level.
• Bespoke Bike Buddy and route navigation support
• Access to loan bikes and cycling equipment
• Weekly bike maintenance lessons for women and monthly family sessions
• Mother and Toddler sessions
• Bike touring programme for complete beginners and a more advanced group
• Mountain biking and BMX sessions
• Cycling festival and regular events
• Training programme for volunteers where they are trained as Ride Leader, Cycle Trainers, get them Outdoor First Aid qualifications as well as upskill them in beginner and Intermediate maintenance training so they can help support the delivery programme. 

Delivery Partner:
Inverclyde Council

Total Funding Award:
£29,910.00

Project Overview:
The Walk to School initiative, led by Inverclyde Council in partnership with Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), aimed to promote active travel among primary school pupils by encouraging them to walk to school at least once a week. This initiative was part of a broader strategy to reduce car dependency, improve public health, and address environmental concerns.

Inverclyde, a region with lower-than-average car ownership (61% vs. Scotland’s 69%), faces significant socio-economic challenges. The project was designed to influence travel behaviour among young students and their families by introducing a gamified, tech-enabled walking competition. Incentives were provided for higher participation levels, including cinema tickets for families and branded merchandise.

The project was rolled out in two phases:

Phase 1 (Spring 2024):

• Targeted the four most car-dependent schools in Inverclyde.
• Introduced an electronic tracking system:
  • WalkBox: NFC-enabled boxes installed on common school routes.
  • WalkFob: Unique NFC keyrings for each pupil to register their walk.

Phase 2 (Autumn 2024):

• Expanded to four primary schools with the lowest active travel rates:
  • These schools represented 18.5% of Inverclyde’s primary school population (924 pupils).

All pupils received WalkFobs and participated in a prize-based competition.

Delivery Partner:
Living Streets

Total Funding Award:
£313,032.00

Project Overview:
This project encompassed several elements of Living Streets’ walking promotion programmes, including:

• WOW the walk to school challenge (across 105 schools)
• Walk to School Week – the five-day annual walking challenge
• Little Feet – walking activity for children aged 2-5 years old, designed specifically for use in early years settings

The WOW project is a pupil-led initiative where pupils report how they travelled to school using the interactive WOW Travel Tracker. The project delivery aligns with the academic year. Therefore, Living Streets is due to provide the final output report in mid-July, and the SPT People and Place dashboard will be updated accordingly.

Delivery Partner:
LLTNP

Total Funding Award:
£45,000.00

Project Overview:
The LLTNP Mobility Partnership is a strategic partnership between all partners that operate in and around the national park, aiming to support the operations of the park and create a sustainable environment for low carbon journeys into and around the park.

Delivery Partner:
North Ayrshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£70,500.00

Project Overview:
North Ayrshire Council have an established Workplace Engagement Officer working successfully with workplaces within the authority area and with our Travel Smart initiative. This project will allow the continuation of the Workplace Engagement Officer, funding a 1.0 FTE post within NAC.

This project works to ensure that workplaces promote modal shift towards active and sustainable modes within workplaces and employees across the Council area. The Workplace Engagement Officer works with workplaces to identify funding to enable workplace cycle storage/parking or maintenance provision, as well as incentivisation schemes that make cycling and walking a more attractive choice to private car use.

The Workplace Engagement Officer works alongside the Trinity Active Travel Hub promoting active and sustainable transport within workplaces, promoting the general brand development of the Councils Travel Smart initiative.

Activities undertaken by this project include:

• National and local walking challenges/events for workplaces
• Sustainable travel promotion
• Workplace Active Travel Plans are created to identify Active Travel Links that connect to each individual workplace including route planning for walking, wheeling and cycling journeys
• Personalised travel plans for employees integrating active travel and public transport
• Provision of pool bikes for workplaces.
• Arranging cycle training
• Identifying external funding and supporting bids for provision of cycle parking/storage and showers/changing rooms within workplaces.

Delivery Partner:
North Ayrshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£42,100.00

Project Overview:
North Ayrshire Council (NAC) have established the Trinity Active Travel Hub in Irvine. This forms the centre of NAC’s Travel Smart initiative. This project allowed the continuation of this Active Travel Hub, providing a base within North Ayrshire for the promotion of active and sustainable transport.

North Ayrshire Council have an established Active Travel Team that currently works successfully with the Trinity Active Travel Hub and the Councils Travel Smart initiative. This project allows for the continuation of an Active Travel Hub Officer, funding a 0.5 FTE post within NAC, to support the activities of the Travel Smart Community and the Councils Travel Smart Workplaces projects. The funding for this project also supported the necessary maintenance costs for the hub.

Within the building a range of materials will be provided including static displays which will promote understanding of the benefits of sustainable and active travel to the individual and the environment. The Trinity will also be the venue where materials produced in the wider Travel Smart initiative can be viewed and distributed. The Trinity Active Travel Hub website will be maintained with regular articles and updates regarding active travel and transport generally, health and environmental benefits of being travelling more actively, and specific information regarding the Travel Smart workplace and Travel Smart community projects. A social media presence will also be maintained which will promote the activities of the whole Travel Smart suite of projects. The information available in the active travel hub and the complementary activities carried out in the hub by the wider Travel Smart initiative will enable local people and those working in the area to make informed decisions about their transport options.

Delivery Partner:
North Ayrshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£44,600.00

Project Overview:
North Ayrshire Council have an established Active Travel Team that currently works successfully with the Trinity Active Travel Hub and the Councils Travel Smart initiative. This project allowed the continuation of an Active Travel Officer, funding a 0.5 FTE post within NAC, to support the activities of the Travel Smart Community and the Councils Travel Smart Workplaces projects.

The project aimed to provide a variety of activities that aim to:

• Increase the public’s awareness of active travel, routes and sustainable transport options especially harder to reach groups.
• Enhance confidence ensuring that the public can make sensible active travel choices.
• Enhance skills and fitness of the public so that they can sustain new active travel choices.
• Reduce the barriers to active and sustainable travel in the community through the provision of information and equipment as appropriate.
• Ensure that project’s reach is inclusive, through engaging and supporting groups and individuals of all protected characteristics.

The project aimed to work with individuals and groups providing a series of informative and engaging activities to build confidence, allowing people to recognise that active travel is a viable choice for them. For example, an extensive programme of walks, cycle rides will be organised by the Trinity Hub team working with local partners throughout North Ayrshire.

Delivery Partner:
North Lanarkshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£132,000.00

Project Overview:
North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) identified a need to enhance active travel in line with NLC’s Active Travel Strategy by creating Active Travel Hubs across the authority. The project aimed to address supporting walking, cycling, and wheeling through strategic infrastructure improvements. Key infrastructure included cycle and scooter racks, secure bike storage, bike tool stations, outdoor fitness equipment, and wayfinding maps in the form of static and digital.

Delivery Partner:
Paths for All

Total Funding Award:
£193,000.00

Project Overview:
Project aims:

• To get more young people within the school system to walk to and from school
• To ensure better levels of physical activity among secondary school age children
• To reduce the number of “school run” journeys being made by private car
• To support specific target groups to be more active.

Delivery in each secondary school targeted differed depending on the school and the pupils particular circumstances and barriers but schools will be supported to deliver a package of delivery including proven successful interventions such as:

• In school Active Travel Hubs
• Bespoke walking gamification projects
• Walking promotion
• Walking Awards.

Delivery Partner:
Paths for All

Total Funding Award:
£90,200.00

Project Overview:
Project Aims:

• To get more people of working age to walk to and from their place of work
• To ensure better levels of physical activity among Scotland's workforce
• To reduce the number of car journeys made for work purposes
• To support specifically targeted groups and workplaces to be more active.

Paths for All ran a “Workplaces Walking” program which aimed to deliver walking support and provision within workplaces in the SPT region over 2024/25. The programme was based on learning from successful Smarter Choices Smarter Places project delivery and existing direct delivery Paths for All carries out around health. The programme will support and encourage people within workplaces to walk more at work and to walk more to and from work. The programme delivery was to be based on peer encouragement and support and run using a network of regional officers promoting delivery and supporting work places within their area.

Delivery Partner:
Renfrewshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£72,031.00

Project Overview:
This project aimed to enhance Cycle and Scooter Parking across Renfrewshire Schools.

The Key Actions and Deliverables were:

• People’s knowledge about Active Travel and sustainable transport choices increases
• More people choose to cycle and/or scoot for short local journeys
• People develop more positive attitudes towards sustainable choices
• Improved / accessible physical environment to walk, wheel, cycle or use public transport
• Improve population health through increase physical activity
• Financial savings for individuals switching to cycling for some journeys.

Based upon a vision that active travel becomes the first choice for everyday journeys, our initiatives will target our younger population from five years until high school leaver and will take a fully inclusive approach. Some of these campaigns will focus on working with the following targeted groups:

• Under-represented
• Disengaged
• People at risk of deprivation
• People from ethnic minority groups
• Less able individuals.

Delivery Partner:
Renfrewshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£71,435.00

Project Overview:
As part of the People and Place Programme, Renfrewshire Council applied for funds to deliver Better Points across Renfrewshire.

The Key Actions and Deliverables are:

• People’s knowledge about Active Travel and sustainable transport choices increases
• More people choose to cycle and/or scoot for short local journeys
• People develop more positive attitudes towards sustainable choices
• Improved / accessible physical environment for those to walk, wheel, cycle or use public transport
• Improve population health through increase physical activity
• Financial savings for individuals switching to cycling for some journeys.

“Not Far? Leave the Car” is an incentivised behaviour change programme delivered via the BetterPoints app, commissioned by Renfrewshire Council and funded by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. Running from April 2024 to March 2025, the programme aimed to reduce reliance on private vehicles by encouraging active and sustainable travel such as walking, cycling, wheeling, running, and public transport use.

Delivery Partner:
Scottish Cycling

Total Funding Award:
£95,099.65

Project Overview:
The project targeted at engaging individuals with a broad age range of disabilities. The intended participants, typically 10 years old to 80+ years old are a focus group as they are currently under-represented in cycling due to the cost and variation of adaptive bikes, as well as the provision of tailored sessions for adaptive riders. By providing a bike library, Scottish Cycling worked to reduce some of the barriers to taking part in cycling faced by people with a disability.

The project works on a bike library model whereby individuals can access a range of adaptive bikes to ensure they access one that suits their needs. This is along with the provision of led rides for free, which ensures participants are supported with confidence and skill development. The cycling sessions are facilitated by qualified British Cycling ride leaders or coaches.

Delivery Partner:
Scottish Cycling

Total Funding Award:
£395,748.27

Project Overview:
The Rock Up & Ride (Childrens) project was designed and implemented as a pilot project for Transport Scotland in August 2021, in response to the Scottish government’s mandate to provide free access to bikes for school aged children who are unable to afford a bike. The project has evolved since its initial inception, and is a behavioural change programme primarily targeted at school-aged children from financially and socially disadvantaged backgrounds with an age range of 5 years to 12 years old, regardless of their ability. Where appropriate, high school aged children can also be included, where a specific need exists.

The project partners with five separate local delivery partners including cycling clubs and community groups, that support facilitation of the project. Eligible children are identified via contact with schools, Active Schools, youth groups and other community groups. The project utilises a gifting model where each child is provided with a good quality but reasonably priced bike and accessories, ensuring there is no stigma around a ‘free bike’. Participants attend a minimum of five fun and inclusive cycling sessions to improve the confidence and competence of each rider, instilling a long-term love of cycling, resulting in behavioural change and modal shift. A range of different bikes from BMX to MTB are supplied which is dictated by local project needs.

Delivery Partner:
Scottish Cycling

Total Funding Award:
£196,589.33

Project Overview:
The Rock Up & Ride (Communities) project was implemented in April 2023 to compliment the existing Rock Up & Ride (Childrens) project. It engages with communities across Scotland which face the biggest barriers to cycling. This includes communities in high areas of deprivation, refugees and ethnic minorities. Free access to bikes, fun and inclusive led rides and cycle skills training are provided to participants of all ages as part of the project delivery, to inspire continued activity as well as the skills and confidence to cycle more, resulting in behavioural change and modal shift. This will also include the delivery of specific interventions targeted at women and girls, recognising they are a group currently hugely underrepresented in cycling participation in Scotland.

Delivery Partner:
South Lanarkshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£135,500.00

Project Overview:
The delivery of travel behaviour change projects to support the transition to more active and sustainable modes of travel has been a key measure in South Lanarkshire Council's plan to support walking and cycling as part of the local transport strategy as well as the Council's air quality action plan to reduce emissions from transport sources.

Beat the street is an example of one of the behaviour change projects South Lanarkshire Council have run very successfully in previous years. The project turns local towns into giant games. Participants earn points, win prizes and discover more about their area by walking, cycling or wheeling around their local town. Beat boxes are located at approximately half mile distances apart across local towns with every primary school in the project area having a beat box located outside their school. Players use a Beat the Street game card to register at beat boxes to gain points or alternatively download an App and collect points at beat boxes if they player is 14 years or older. Players must visit two beat boxes within an hour to collect points.

Since 2018 Beat the Street active travel games have taken place in Lanark & Rutherglen, East Kilbride (x2), Hamilton & Blantyre, Cambuslang & Rutherglen and most recently within the wider Clydesdale area. Over 53,000 people have taken part and community engagement has ranged between 10 – 17% of the local population, with the majority of games exceeding the 10% community engagement targets. Participants have travelled actively and walked, cycled, or wheeled over 700,000 miles.

Delivery Partner:
South Lanarkshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£36,000.00

Project Overview:
The project is delivered via the BetterPoints app and platform, and users can register for free and use the BetterPoints app to record their sustainable travel trips. Walking, cycling and public transport journeys earn BetterPoints which users can spend at participating local retailers, online or donate to charity.

The aim of the project is to achieve measurable modal shift from single occupancy vehicle use to more sustainable modes – and thereby to improve air quality through reduced emissions. Reduced congestion and improved public health are also important outcomes.

Delivery Partner:
SPT

Total Funding Award:
£58,043.00

Project Overview:
Travelknowhow Scotland (TKHS) is a valuable resource to help educate and raise awareness of the active and sustainable travel options open to workplaces and continues to have a key role to play in proactively engaging with individuals and organisations, as well as signposting to the various active and sustainable travel delivery partners to promote the shift from single occupancy car use.

Since 2020/21, TKHS has provided a programme which facilitates direct engagement with over 60 workplaces ( approx. population reach of over 150,000 to date), offering more collaborative and hands on support to organisations that helps them to establish workable commuting and business travel solutions that fit with their organisation and encourage more active and sustainable travel choices longer term.

This project was a bespoke SPT regional offering, where TKHS worked with SPT to identify and target key geographical locations such as business parks/ industrial estates across each of the 12 local authority areas within SPT's remit. The programme then directly engaged with as many employers as possible at each of these identified sites.

TKHS worked in partnership with individual organisations, landlords, and management companies where relevant, to understand current travel patterns and viable alternatives and provide employers at theses sites with practical advice, guidance, resources and tools to allow them to accurately meet their scope 3 reporting requirements and enable them to establish and maintain meaningful and bespoke measures to encourage more active and sustainable travel moving forward. 

Delivery Partner:
SPT

Total Funding Award:
£51,972.00

Project Overview:
This project was established to provide the SPT People and Place Programme Team with the necessary resources to effectively support and deliver the programme. This included various valuable initiatives, including:

Monitoring & Evaluation Support – Stantec
A key component of the People and Place Programme is the Monitoring & Evaluation of projects being delivered, ensuring projects effectively define their outcomes, measure their impact, and drive meaningful change.

The SPT People and Place Programme 2024/25 encompassed a remarkably diverse range of initiatives. To produce a comprehensive year-end report that not only highlights the breadth of work undertaken by SPT’s 19 delivery partners but also clearly presents the outcomes achieved, additional capacity was required. To facilitate this, SPT engaged Stantec as consultants, whose expertise was invaluable in ensuring a rigorous and accurate evaluation process. This support not only strengthened the Monitoring & Evaluation efforts for 2024/25 but also established a strong foundation for future evaluations, enabling in-depth data analysis and the development of an efficient framework for Year Two of the programme.

“Building the Future Together: SPT People and Place Programme Review” Workshop

SPT hosted the “Building the Future Together: SPT People and Place Programme Review” Workshop in early November 2024. The purpose of the workshop was to bring all delivery partners under SPT’s 2024/25 People and Place Programme together, with the intention of doing the following:

• Review of the operational aspects of the 2024/25 programme with a view to shaping these for 2025/26 and future funding years.
• Understand the overall behaviour change landscape across the region, identifying opportunities for partnering and collaboration on initiatives ahead of planning for the 2025/26 programme.

The workshop was to be the first opportunity to shape the 2025/26 programme, following on from the initial transition year of delivery, allowing partners to form relationships with each other and gain a better understanding of opportunities and ambitions across the region.

42 people registered to attend the workshop in total. 12 representatives from 8 of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) region local authorities, 19 from delivery partner organisations working in the SPT region, 7 from other Regional Transport Partnerships and 4 from Transport Scotland.

Delivery Partner:
SPT

Total Funding Award:
£31,200.00

Project Overview:
Working with Sweco and supported by Transport Scotland through the People and Place Programme and Sustrans Places for Everyone, SPT’s Regional Active Travel Strategy (ATS) was developed between 2023-2024. The ATS was developed as a key delivery mechanism in SPT’s approach to deliver the required step-change in sustainable transport needed to resolve many of the issues with the region's transport system as identified in SPT’s Regional Transport Strategy (RTS).

The ATS is intended to be an effective tool to guide and co-ordinate regionally significant active travel projects and investments – both in terms of infrastructure and non-infrastructure initiatives. It will provide delivery partners, decision makers, and funders with an improved understanding of the region’s level of ambition, investment requirements, and priorities for achieving a fundamental change in active travel provision and quality; as well as supporting equal access to bikes and encouraging behaviour change.

SPT’s Regional Active Travel Strategy has been developed via an evidence-led approach, in collaboration with SPT’s twelve local authorities, following the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance. The contents are supported by a suite of evidence drawn from policy documents, strategies (including national Active Travel Strategy Guidance), data acquisition, and direct stakeholder engagement.

The ATS has been aligned with the vision, targets and objectives of SPT’s Regional Transport Strategy (RTS) to support SPT’s work in delivering a transport system that supports the needs of people, communities and businesses across the west of Scotland. These recognise that at a national level, policy objectives focus on meeting climate change targets, moving to a more inclusive economy and reducing inequalities, through improving health, and creating liveable communities. SPT’s ATS outlines the critical role of active travel in delivering these, and how mode shift can work towards reducing inequalities, widening access to employment, education and services, and narrowing health disparities.

Delivery Partner:
Sustrans

Total Funding Award:
£217,003.00

Project Overview:
To deliver this project, Sustrans implemented their long-standing IBike Schools Programme across schools in East Dunbartonshire. This project places officers in schools to encourage active travel through training initiatives such as Bikeability, Dr Bike sessions, and led rides.

Delivery Partner:
Sustrans

Total Funding Award:
£161,213.75

Project Overview:
The Education and Young People Programme supported several project deliveries within the SPT region all focused on support an increase in active travel rates across the education landscape. These included the Big Walk and Wheel project, The Hands Up Scotland Survey and a Data Dashboard that allows sharing of school-level HUSS data for the last three years for all schools across SPT, as well as other active travel initiatives with the primary aim of encouraging active travel to and from school.

Delivery Partner:
West Dunbartonshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£21,200.00

Project Overview:
Love to Ride is an interactive cycling app-based challenge which aims to encourage people who are not currently cycling to start cycling; to encourage occasional cyclists to cycle more regularly; to encourage those who are not currently cycling to work to commute by bike; to close the gender gap in cycling participation in West Dunbartonshire; to provide measurable results so that increases in everyday cycling uptake can be tracked.

Delivery Partner:
West Dunbartonshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£47,800.00

Project Overview:
This project commissioned a research consultant to conduct a review of active travel routes to schools across West Dunbartonshire. This review will be used to develop a priority list for maintenance and infrastructure improvements in the area.