Workplace Travel Grant

Workplace Travel Grant 2024 has now closed.

We are offering organisations and businesses in Cornwall the opportunity to apply for funding. This funding is to help workplaces expand travel choices and reduce car use.

Match funding of up to 75% is being offered through the Workplace Travel Grant, however, those applications that offer a higher level of match will be viewed more favourably. The grant can be for facilities and equipment which help to reduces car trips taken by workplaces, such as (but not limited to):

cycle parking
showers and changing facilities
pool bikes*

We have partnered with Active Travel Social Prescribing Fund and Carbon Neutral Cornwall to provide additional funding for Workplace Travel Grant projects each year.

There is additional funding through the Workplace Travel Grant available to support projects in Social Prescribing areas:

Bodmin
St Austell and the China Clay area
Penzance (including Newlyn, Heamoor and Gulval)

Please note this does not mean that the grant is only available for social prescribing areas. We welcome applications from all areas of Cornwall.

What the grant can be spent on. (List is not exhaustive)	What can not be funded using the grant. (List is not exhaustive)
Pool bike to be used for workplace trips only Showering or changing areas facilities such as showers, lockers, cubicles or drying racks Workplace real-time public transport display screens	Bikes to be used for commuting Re-claimable VAT Office furniture A repeat project or activity from the same workplace Electrical charging points Revenue purchases (such as Bikeability) Facilities/ measuring required as part of a planning obligation Ongoing maintenance and running costs of pre-exiting activities i.e. rent, electricity etc. Employee salaries Retrospective purchases

*A fixed financial offer will apply to applications that include the purchase of e-bikes. This includes a maximum grant funding contribution of £1,000 per bike. (Unless agreed by acceptation, such as e-cargo bikes).

The following resources will help with your application. If you are applying only for cycling parking facilities, please use the cycle parking guidance and application form.

Workplace Travel Grant Guidance

Workplace Travel Grant Guidance

Supporting Documents

An application is more likely to be successful if you show that it:

Fits in clearly with your business/organisational sustainability objectives
Increases the benefit to as many staff and visitors as possible
Community benefit
Has a higher match fund
Links to your organisations personnel, health, wellbeing and environmental policies
Includes at least one quotes

Need more Information

If you have any questions about the programme please email us: traveltowork@cornwall.gov.uk

Privacy Notice

Cornwall Council’s Transport Planning and Strategy Team collects personal information from you. We have a duty to ensure that this information is processed:

lawfully,
fairly; and
in a transparent manner.

The Council will only use this information to:

assist us with reviewing your application;
and to respond to you on any matters relating to your application.

Please note, any personal information collected from you will be securely destroyed either:

within 2 years (plus current year) if you have been unsuccessful, or
within 6 years (plus current year) if you have been successful.

We will hold your data within the Council's secure network and premises. Your data will not be processed outside of (the UK/the EEA); and we will not share it with any third party. Only authorised members of staff will have access to your information. These will be staff who will need to process it for the purposes outlined in this privacy notice.

You can find out more about how your information is used and your rights on our website: How we use your information

If you need any help with this form please contact traveltowork@cornwall.gov.uk