The Fund has announced grants totalling £15,000 to three new Wildlife Trust schemes in Norfolk, Radnorshire and Yorkshire. David Bayliss, the Fund’s Chairman, commented ‘We are delighted to support three outstanding environmental schemes which will be of undoubted benefit to the motorist. We are grateful to the Wildlife Trust organisation for its continued support in identifying suitable schemes’.

David Bayliss, the Fund’s Chairman, has announced details of nine bursary awards made to transport masters students about to commence studies in the Autumn. He said “ I am delighted that once again we have been able to provide substantial financial support to a set of highly impressive young men and women, seeking to pursue a career in transport in the UK. Our Trustees regard this as a highly important investment in the future of transport in this country.” Further details can be found on the Bursaries page.

The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund is pleased to announce the award of a grant of more than £66,000 to support a three year lectureship appointment in Transport Studies at the University of Ulster. The new appointment will allow the University to strengthen research and teaching activity in transport – a key area in its School of the Built Environment.

The Fund prides itself on the support that it is able to give to research projects which can have a positive impact on UK transport policy-making , and David Bayliss, the Fund’s Chairman, is anxious that in 2011 we increase our support to relevant projects. ‘We are a body which operates best’ he recently commented  ’when we react to good ideas submitted to us. We have thoughts of our own for appropriate topics – road congestion, accidents, electric vehicles, transport issues for the elderly, to name a few - but we need to hear from those in the transport field who have novel and innovative proposals. We are keen to support their work’