Community Road Safety Grants

$5000 category 

$30,000 category 

Grants up to $5000 are available for local community road safety projects. These projects should increase road safety awareness in specific community groups or locations.  

A limited number of $30,000 road safety grants are also available. These projects are larger and involve a broader reach within the community.  

Organisation 

Project  

CareSouth 

A Driver Mentoring Program that gives access to company pool cars, a free professional driving lesson, and ongoing lessons with trained volunteer mentors so vulnerable young people can get their licence. 

Clontarf Foundation 

Supports senior Aboriginal male students in NSW to become safer, more confident drivers and obtain their driver licence through driver safety sessions and professional driving lessons. 

Community Activities Lake Macquarie Inc. (CALM) 

Helps provide professionally fitted car seats and seatbelts, and child safety information to clients receiving our family support services. 

Connective Indigenous Corporation 

Creates awareness and knowledge about road safety through short digital clips and stories that can be shared across social media platforms through a lens that Aboriginal communities understand. 

Cycle Safe Bathurst 

Partners with local media organisations and council to develop and roll out a campaign to make drivers aware of the dangers of roundabouts to vulnerable road users. 

Down The Track Youth Enterprises Limited 

‘Driving Youth on Track’ will deliver a driver education and training program targeting disengaged youth to navigate road surfaces, city situations, towing and reversing, to produce competent, safe drivers. 

Enough is Enough Anti-Violence Movement Inc. 

Workshops for inexperienced drivers (18-25) who engage in risky driving behaviours. It explores the consequences and impacts of risk-taking behaviours on themselves and the community. 

Ethnic Communities' Council of NSW 

A series of road and vehicle safety workshops in-language for seniors aged over 55 from multicultural backgrounds. It will help increase road safety awareness and support safer road use. 

Gulgong Liquor Accord 

Provides service to the local community by picking up and dropping off people as a safe alternative to drink driving. 

Healthy Cities Illawarra 

A social campaign to make cycling safer, by putting a human face to people who ride bikes. 

Hunter Academy of Sport 

A road safety education program aimed at young athletes aged 15-18 and their families. It is based on leadership, education and decision making. 

Illawarra Multicultural Services Inc. 

Safer Driving supports recently arrived refugees and migrants in the Illawarra region to improve and increase their knowledge of the NSW road rules and regulations. 

Kenyan Community Newcastle Association - Wananchi Newcastle 

In it Together aims to re-educate the Swahili speaking community within Wallsend on safety in line with Towards Zero key priority areas. 

Little Blue Dinosaur Foundation 

Partners with local government areas to raise community awareness of child road safety using signage, media and education campaigns. 

Metro Assist 

Aims to instil a culture of safe driving within new arrivals by better understanding road rules, increasing road safety awareness and practising safe driving. 

Milparinka Heritage and Tourism Association Inc. 

Creates and distributes driver safety videos targeting the many caravanners travelling through Australia, especially within the Corner Country of outback NSW. 

Mobility and Accessibility for Children in Australia (MACA Inc.) 

Promotes, gives access to, and facilitates an online training course for 100 NSW health professionals to improve road safety outcomes for children with disabilities as passengers in motor vehicles. 

PCYC 

Delivers driver education through an online program for P platers at no cost and offers half-priced places for low-income earners across NSW. 

Rotary Club of Midday Grafton Inc. 

Delivers a series of displays and presentations on the laws of the Minimum Passing Distance Rule at the monthly local car meet in Grafton. 

Survive The Ride Association of NSW Inc. 

Provides free face-to-face workshops for motorcycle riders in rural NSW on ways to improve risk management decisions when riding. 

Westpac Rescue Helicopter 

Enables participation in driver training and towing courses for volunteers who frequently drive and tow trailers in performing their duties. 

Wyong District Museum and Historical Society 

To buy helmets which will be provided with each refurbished bicycle donated to charitable organisations for distribution. 

Youthsafe 

To develop and pilot a prototype for short, online training sessions for supervising drivers, pre-learners and learners to minimise crash risks over the GLS journey.