Delivery Partner:
Agile City CIC
Total Funding Award:
£382,892.00
Project Overview:
Civic Street's Active Travel and Sustainability Hub is an addition to the existing site at Civic House in Glasgow. Civic House is an events venue, coworking space, and community hub for many organisations in Glasgow. The project will deliver infrastructure to support further active travel to this area of Glasgow, complementing cycling infrastucture improvements already made to the surrounding area.
Delivery Partner:
Argyll and Bute
Total Funding Award:
£35,000.00
Project Overview:
Argyll and Bute plan to deliver Bikeability in Helensburgh and Lomond schools, funded through SPT's People and Place Programme. The project will support safe cycling for school children, improving confidence and ability to allow more journeys to be made by bike for everyday journeys.
Delivery Partner:
Ayrshire Roads Alliance on behalf of South & East Ayrshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£215,000.00
Project Overview:
Coalfields Community Transport in East Ayrshire are using People and Place funding for the establishment of an EV Car Club, allowing more access to sustainable travel to those living in rural areas.
Delivery Partner:
Ayrshire Roads Alliance on behalf of South & East Ayrshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£170,000.00
Project Overview:
The Ayrshire Link is an aspirational network of safe and accessible active travel routes across South and East Ayrshire. The Hub is to be in Ayr, and provide a central location for which to base activities such as led rides, bike workshops, and community group sessions from the local area.
Delivery Partner:
Ayrshire Roads Alliance on behalf of South & East Ayrshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£170,000.00
Project Overview:
The Ayrshire Link is an aspirational network of safe and accessible active travel routes across South and East Ayrshire.This funding is for the development of an Innovation and Cycle Centre in tandem with the rest of the Ayrshire Link work.
Delivery Partner:
CoMoUK
Total Funding Award:
£122,500.00
Project Overview:
CoMo UK's Pop-up mobility hubs are small, moveable, modular parklets that have planting, seating, a bike repair stand, and act as a pop-up bike hire station to allow more people to access active travel. The CoMoUK team host activities and events from the hub, including led walks, to embed the hub within the community and promote active travel for everyday journeys. Hubs are to be introduced at locations within Glasgow City Council and Ayrshire.
Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland
Total Funding Award:
£690,000.00
Project Overview:
Cycling Scotland, working with partners such as local authorities, social housing providers, workplaces, and schools, provide their expertise and funding to increase access to cycle parking and storage. This helps tackle common barriers to cycling, by aiding people with places to store their bikes at home, work, or school.
Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland
Total Funding Award:
£350,000.00
Project Overview:
Cycling Scotland provide support through funding and expertise to Workplaces in the SPT region to promote cycling as a method of commuting to and from work. This can be through cycle storage, shower and changing facilities, or other methods where appropriate.
Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland
Total Funding Award:
£180,000.00
Project Overview:
Cycling Scotland have provided a number of campus cycling officers at further and higher education sites across the SPT region, who are tasked with the responsibility of desgining, implementing, and evaluating a cycling project. 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 UK
Total Funding Award:
£1,449,677.00
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:
Delivery Partner:
Cycling UK
Total Funding Award:
£130,000.00
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:
Delivery Partner:
Bikes and Cycle Storage
Total Funding Award:
£40,000.00
Project Overview:
This project involves purchasing upgraded cycle storage for schools across East Dunbartonshire.
Delivery Partner:
East Dunbartonshire
Total Funding Award:
£9,000.00
Project Overview:
This project's aim is to provide maintenance to ensure the succesful upkeep of East Dunbartonshire Council's fleet of pool bikes.
Delivery Partner:
East Dunbartonshire
Total Funding Award:
£9,000.00
Project Overview:
Healthy Habits is an East Dunbartonshire Council project designed to encourage local people to walk and cycle more as part of their everyday journeys. There are route signs and maps in towns across East Dunbartonshire to highlight the best way to local facilities, and the time it takes, supporting more journeys to be made by active travel.
Delivery Partner:
East Renfrewshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£9,934.00
Project Overview:
This project aims to provide travel planning guidance for pupils transitioning from primary to secondary school. The project focuses on encouraging students to travel sustainably to their new high school by developing travel plans that identify alternatives to being driven to school by a parent or carer.
Delivery Partner:
East Renfrewshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£13,000.00
Project Overview:
This project involves procuring consultancy services to help develop staff travel plans within East Renfrewshire Council and aid with the calculations of commuter emissions across the council area.
Delivery Partner:
East Renfrewshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£2,566.00
Project Overview:
Liftshare is a car sharing paltform that aims to connect people travelling in the same direction, free at the point of use to users. SPT's People and Place Programme is supporting East Renfrewshire Council to continue this licence for users in this area.
Delivery Partner:
East Renfrewshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£15,000.00
Project Overview:
People and Place funding is being used by East Renfrewshire Council to conduct a feasibility study into the installation of a mobility hub within the local authority.
Delivery Partner:
East Renfrewshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£20,000.00
Project Overview:
Love to Ride is a social platform to allow users to share their cycles to a social network site with other users of the service. It also allows them to win prizes, join leaderboards, and set their own personal goals to motivate themselves and others.
Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Cycling UK)
Total Funding Award:
£91,000.00
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:
Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Cycling UK)
Total Funding Award:
£139,000.00
Project Overview:
Connecting Communities is a project based around empowering those in communities to embrace active travel as part of their everyday life, by embedding development officers within communities and offering a wide range of cycling and walking activities for those of all abilities.
Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Bike for Good)
Total Funding Award:
£200,000.00
Project Overview:
This project is one of Bike for Good's key funding streams, a charity and social enterprise based in Glasgow that aims to provide access to low cost, quality bikes through refurbishment and donations. The funding supported by the People and Place Programme will allow this work to continue, supporting more people to have access to bikes across Glasgow.
Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Bike for Good)
Total Funding Award:
£137,000.00
Project Overview:
Cycle ready workplaces involves offering Dr Bike sessions to workplaces, as well as offering road user awareness training. This year, they are developing a website to further support workplaces and aid with monitoring of the programme as a whole and allowing more organisations the opportunity to influence how their staff travel to work.
Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Drumchapel Cycle Hub)
Total Funding Award:
£90,000.00
Project Overview:
The project will deliver learn-to-ride and group cycling sessions, bike repair services, and cycling education in up to eight schools. It will focus on supporting low-income individuals and families in North-west Glasgow by providing access to affordable bikes and confidence-building cycling activities. The initiative aims to empower communities through active travel provisions.
Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Glasgow Eco Trust)
Total Funding Award:
£47,900.00
Project Overview:
This project will collaborate with primary schools and community centres in West Glasgow to promote active travel and sustainable transport through coordinated planning and strong community engagement. Activities will include developing travel plans, hosting community-led forums, collecting travel diaries, setting up information stalls, and launching a promotional campaign. The initiative aims to boost active travel uptake, cut carbon emissions, and contribute to cleaner air across Glasgow.
Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with St Paul’s Youth Forum)
Total Funding Award:
£195,651.00
Project Overview:
The project will support underrepresented and disadvantaged communities in North-east and North Glasgow by providing bikes, training, and maintenance workshops. These activities will improve access to cycling and boost confidence among participants. The project’s outcomes aim to break down transport barriers and encourage cycling as a sustainable and accessible travel option across Glasgow.
Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council (in partnership with Women on Wheels)
Total Funding Award:
£109,500.00
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. The project work aims to break down barriers to female participation in cycling through sessions and programmes for women and families in Glasgow with an overarching aim of empowering more women and girls to cycle as part of their every day life.
Delivery Partner:
Inverclyde Council
Total Funding Award:
£35,000.00
Project Overview:
This project will provde new and upgraded cycle storage in schools across the Inverclyde region.
Delivery Partner:
Inverclyde Council
Total Funding Award:
£15,000.00
Project Overview:
This project will produce new counters for cyclists and pedestrians throughout the Inverclyde region to inform ongoing active travel transport planning.
Delivery Partner:
Inverclyde Council
Total Funding Award:
£7,000.00
Project Overview:
In line with the work of Inverclyde council's other People and Place Programme projects, this project will promote active travel routes throughout the region with a number of campaigns and initiatives.
Delivery Partner:
Inverclyde Council
Total Funding Award:
£20,000.00
Project Overview:
Inverclyde Council are engaging consultants to perform an update of their existing Active Travel Strategy (ATS), last published in 2018.
Delivery Partner:
Living Streets
Total Funding Award:
£143,316.00
Project Overview:
WOW is a pupil-led initiative where children self-report how they get to school every day using the interactive WOW Travel Tracker. If they travel sustainably at least once a week for a month, they are rewarded with a WOW badge. The initiative sees 59% fewer car journeys to the school gates, and 18% more journeys walking and wheeling all the way to school.
Delivery Partner:
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park
Total Funding Award:
£60,000.00
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:
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park
Total Funding Award:
£40,000.00
Project Overview:
In line with the work of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park mobility partnership, this project is facilitating a study into bus connectivity in the national park. This is aligned with other work that LLTNP are undertaking such as the Trossachs Explorer bus, encouraging more sustaiable journeys to and around the national park.
Delivery Partner:
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Total Funding Award:
£44,390.00
Project Overview:
NHS GGC provide support for active travel across all sites within the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Region for circa 40,000 staff. This mainly comprises of Dr Bike sessions at hospitals and other venues at shift changeover times, to allow staff to have a cycle that they can safely use to commute to and from work and to fit in repairs around shifts.
Delivery Partner:
North Ayrshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£157,000.00
Project Overview:
North Ayrshire Council's Travel Smart Programme aims to reduce carbon footprint, save money, and improve health throughout workplaces in North Ayrshire. This is a free service that employers can access to help them achieve Cycling Scotland's 'Cycle Friendly Employer Award', and allow employees access to Dr Bike Sessions, Led Rides, or bikes to loan.
Delivery Partner:
North Ayrshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£200,000.00
Project Overview:
This project is providing RTPI services at a number of sites across North Ayrshire, to improve the experience of taking the bus for those who live there.
Delivery Partner:
North Lanarkshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£40,000.00
Project Overview:
People and Place funding will be used to improve infrastructure around public transport hubs in North Lanarkshire, helping to increase multi modal journeys through making public transport more accessible.
Delivery Partner:
North Lanarkshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£180,000.00
Project Overview:
Through People and Place funding, North Lanarkshire are increasing services on three routes with the highest MyBus refusal rate in the local authority, aiming to provide the service to as many people as possible.
Delivery Partner:
North Lanarkshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£29,000.00
Project Overview:
Upgrading two bus stops in Bellshill to new shelters with integrated RTPI.
Delivery Partner:
North Lanarkshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£150,000.00
Project Overview:
North Lanarkshire Council are delivering a number of active travel hubs across the local authority through People and Place funding this year. Building on the success of last years hubs, they are building 4 more at sites across North Lanarkshire to support walking, cycling, and wheeling.
Delivery Partner:
Walking Scotland (previously Paths for All)
Total Funding Award:
£210,000.00
Project Overview:
Walking Scotland have launched a community fund for path improvements across the SPT region. Projects can apply with a maximum value of £10,000, for things such as new paths, existing path improvements, lighting, seating, and more to allow more access to walking for everyday journeys.
Delivery Partner:
Walking Scotland (previously Paths for All)
Total Funding Award:
£148,882.00
Project Overview:
Walking Scotland are delivering Walking Schools Programmes in high schools across Scotland that respond to local needs and address barriers to active travel. These programmes encourgae walkign to and from school, and deliver incentives such as the Step Count challenge to empower and encourage young people to embrace walking more throughout their lives.
Delivery Partner:
Walking Scotland (previously Paths for All)
Total Funding Award:
£116,030.00
Project Overview:
Walking Scotland are delivering their Walking Communities Programme within the SPT region. Through working in partnership with local people and partners in villages, towns, and cities, this programme supports projects aiming to improve the physical environment within these areas, empower local collaborators to champion these projects, and support overall behaviour change initiatives to support more walking journeys everday.
Delivery Partner:
Renfrewshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£7,000.00
Project Overview:
Renfrewshire council are delivering bikeability training in schools within the local authority. The project will support safe cycling for school children, improving confidence and ability to allow more journeys to be made by bike for everyday journeys.
Delivery Partner:
Renfrewshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£100,000.00
Project Overview:
This project is delivering RTPI units around Renfrewshire.
Delivery Partner:
Renfrewshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£100,000.00
Project Overview:
Beat the Street is a game that runs for six weeks, turning towns into the arena. Players run, cycle, walk or travel however they like actively between 'beat boxes' to gain points for their team, and climb the leaderboards, encouraging uptake in active travel modes for everyday journeys.
Delivery Partner:
Renfrewshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£3,000.00
Project Overview:
This project will deliver Bike Maintenance Stations to secondary schools around Renfrewshire to aid wider active travel goals.
Delivery Partner:
Scottish Cycling
Total Funding Award:
£321,420.00
Project Overview:
Rock Up and Ride is a project that was launched in 2021 and has been delivering free and accessible cycling sessions across Scotland since then. 80% of RUAR participants in 2024/25 across Scotland were under the age of 16, with the young people strand working to encourage and empower young people to cycle as part of their everyday lives.
Delivery Partner:
Scottish Cycling
Total Funding Award:
£370,620.00
Project Overview:
Rock Up and Ride is a project that was launched in 2021 and has been delivering free and accessible cycling sessions across Scotland since then. The project has developed into a number of strands, with their inclusive communities strand focusing on those from more deprived communities, and those that are underrepresented in the cycling landscape within Scotland to encourage uptake of cycling for everyday journeys.
Delivery Partner:
South Lanarkshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£125,306.00
Project Overview:
Beat the Street is a game that runs for six weeks, turning towns into the arena. Players run, cycle, walk or travel however they like actively between 'beat boxes' to gain points for their team, and climb the leaderboards.
Delivery Partner:
South Lanarkshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£37,900.00
Project Overview:
BetterPoints is an app that tracks both active and sustainable travel journeys in return for rewards within local businesses in South Lanarkshire.
Delivery Partner:
South Lanarkshire Council
Total Funding Award:
£15,092.00
Project Overview:
Walk n Roll is a series of led walks and rides within East Kilbride and Cambuslang to highlight some of the existing infrastructure available, and aim to encourage people to encorporate these routes into their daily routines.
Delivery Partner:
SPT
Total Funding Award:
£59,700.00
Project Overview:
This project is funding an upgrade of the systems used to schedule MyBus within SPT. This will ensure the scheme will operate as functional as possible, increasing journey capacity and allowing sustainable transport journeys to be made by more users across the region.
Delivery Partner:
SPT
Total Funding Award:
£466,519.48
Project Overview:
People and Place Community Fund allocation - supporting sustaiable travel behaviour change initiatives being delivered by community organisations at local level.
Delivery Partner:
SPT
Total Funding Award:
£81,560.52
Project Overview:
This project is to support SPT to make improvements to Subway and Bus stations, allowing these locations to operate as activ travel hubs and support multi-modal sustainable transport journeys.
Delivery Partner:
SPT
Total Funding Award:
£50,025.00
Project Overview:
Travelknowhow provide bespoke wordplace travel plans to workplaces across Scotland, in partnership with all 7 RTP's through People and Place funding.
Delivery Partner:
SPT
Total Funding Award:
£22,595.00
Project Overview:
Funding to support SPT complete a study outlining the demand for a regional bike share scheme across the SPT region, as well as investigate any possiblities for expansion of the current scheme operating in Glasgow to support this.
Delivery Partner:
SPT
Total Funding Award:
£37,300.00
Project Overview:
This project has funded 1 FTE position within the Policy and Planning team at SPT to deliver the People and Place Community Fund.
Delivery Partner:
SPT
Total Funding Award:
£37,300.00
Project Overview:
This project has funded 1 FTE position within the Policy and Planning team at SPT to deliver the People and Place Programme.
Delivery Partner:
SPT
Total Funding Award:
£20,000.00
Project Overview:
Through this project, SPT are running a series of knowledge sharing events and forums for all delivery partners of the main People and Place Programme and the Community Fund to support continued development of the wider programme.
Delivery Partner:
SPT
Total Funding Award:
£20,000.00
Project Overview:
Through this project, SPT are planning to purchase cycle counters to place on cycle paths around the region. These will allow for the collection of more robust data around cycling activity and support further informed investment across the region - both for behaviour change and infrastructure improvements.
Delivery Partner:
Sustrans
Total Funding Award:
£107,532.00
Project Overview:
Sustrans run their Education and Young People project throughtout Scotland. The key highlights of this are the 'Big Walk and Wheel', the UK's biggest school cycling, walking, and scooting event, and 'Cycle to School Week' hosted annually too. Furthermore, through People and Place funding, Sustrans have been developing a data dashboard to access active travel information for all schools in the SPT region easily to allow decision makers to make informed decisions.
Find out more about the People & Place Programme.
Find out about what is being delivered by the 2024/25 programme
People and Place Programme 2024/25This work was supported through the Scottish Government funded People and Place Programme, supporting the shared ambition that by 2030, Scotland's communities are shaped around people and place - making walking, wheeling and cycling to be most popular mode of travel for short, everyday journeys.
