Trusts and Foundations

In partnership with Trusts and Foundations we have:

• Amplified underrepresented voices, giving disabled people a platform to influence key transport decision-makers by sharing their lived experience of walking, wheeling and cycling. 
• Engaged people at risk of homelessness and mental health challenges in street design, ensuring diverse experiences of public space are taken into account. 
• Transformed traffic-free routes on the National Cycle Network into havens for wildlife, giving people across the UK access to thriving nature on their doorsteps.
• Created compelling evidence for an approach to new housing developments that prioritizes sustainable transport, placemaking, and community well-being. 

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Here are a few examples of our partnerships with Trusts and Foundations that have led to transformational change.

Motability Foundation 

Motability Foundation fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose.

The Foundation supported Sustrans and Transport for All to deliver the transformational Disabled Citizens’ Inquiry, which gave a platform to the lived experiences of disabled people, putting their needs and aspirations at the forefront of walking and wheeling policy and practice.

City Bridge Foundation

City Bridge Foundation help communities to foster connections, become more resilient and build a more equal London.

With their support, we empowered people at risk of homelessness and mental health challenges to shape their neighbourhoods. Through a combination of active travel activities and co-design workshops, residents at local homeless hostels gained confidence, social connections, and the skills to influence local decision-making.

Their input directly informed concept designs for street improvements, demonstrating the power of community-led change. 

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the UK’s largest independent funders and aims to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities.

Our partnership enabled the Greener Greenways project, which has given people across the UK access to thriving nature on their doorsteps. Our in-house ecologists and dedicated volunteers surveyed wildlife along the traffic-free paths of the National Cycle Network and created tailored habitat management plans to protect and enhance biodiversity.

We trained wildlife champions up and down the UK to use this new knowledge, which they continue to cascade within their communities so that many more people can take action to improve biodiversity on their local paths.

The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund 

The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund fosters innovation and best practice in design, engineering and aesthetics to promote better and safer roads for all road users.

The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund supported Sustrans and Create Streets to develop the Stepping off the Road to Nowhere report, which boldly challenges the traditional "predict and provide" model for new housing developments. This groundbreaking report advocates for a "vision-led" approach that prioritizes sustainable transport, placemaking, and community well-being.

By showcasing the transformative potential of this approach in Chippenham, the report inspires a paradigm shift in how we build our future.

It has since influenced proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy framework so that it is vision-led and considers health inequalities in planning.