School Travel Plans - Safer Journeys to School
What can a school spend the money on?
The following list shows items approved and unapproved for School Travel Plan funding:
Approved items eligible for funding:
- Pupil lockers
- Cycle storage
- Scooter storage
- New access at school perimeter, only if it is on school land
- New path for pedestrians and/or cyclists in school grounds
- Wider paths in the school grounds
- Drainage
- Improved lighting in school grounds
- CCTV within school grounds
- On site waiting area for pedestrians
- On site shelter for pedestrians (e.g. parents waiting, pupils waiting for walking bus/ school buses in the school)
- Bus turning circle in school grounds
- Guard railings
- Traffic calming on school access roads in school grounds
- New signage
- Re-siting school fences to improve access
- Trees to 'eat' CO2
- Providing a laminated cycle 'passport' with a swipe-in chip for the secure store
- Wet weather changing facilities, but not items such as hairdryers unless incidental to larger project
Unapproved items:
- Seed money to start off a breakfast club
- Cycle training courses when the instructors have to be paid and/or training of instructors
- Cycle repair workshop equipment
- Buying in expertise for School Travel Plan related issues
- Staff time, e.g., supervision at 'park and stride' drop-off points, attending School Travel Plan working groups, input into School Travel Plan activities such as car-share clubs
- Extra responsibility points for teachers championing School Travel Plans
- Publicity and promotional resources
- Tabards for walking bus escorts/passengers
- Trolleys for (walking bus) bags
- Software - for mapping and surveys
- Subsidised bike lights/helmets/ hi viz/ locks for people cycling to school
- Markings to rationalise parking or improve safety of pupils in the vicinity of cars unless part of larger project
- Active play equipment
