Rees Jeffreys Road Fund has collaborated with Living Paintings to create a second book about vehicles specially designed for use by blind or partially-sighted children. The book, Magnificent Machines that go Vroom Vroom! is the second book in the series, and includes some fantastic diggers, farm machines and other large Read more…
This page tells you about the Physical and Roadside projects we have provided grant funding to over recent years. 2021 ACTion with Communities in Cumbria – Backroads Active Travel: A further grant of £10,036 was made to ACTion Cumbria to enable the delivery of the project supported by the Fund Read more…
This page tells you about the Education projects we have provided grant funding to over recent years. 2021 Bader Media Entertainment CIC: A grant of £8,000 was made to Bader to create a set of alternative videos, Thrash the Trash. The project was funded in conjunction with Clean Up Britain, Read more…
This page tells you about the Research projects we have provided grant funding to over recent years. 2021 Future Transport Visions Group: Combined grants of £19,898 were made to support the 2021 round of the Future Transport Visions Group programme, enabling young career professionals to be involved in the development Read more…
The Fund was established 70 years ago in 1950 and its founding objectives reflected the transport issues of the day. Trustees have now decided on a modern restatement of the Fund’s Objectives to ensure they remain relevant and understandable to applicants and other interested parties. More details can be found Read more…
Recommendations from a best practice guide funded by Rees Jeffreys has been adopted by Highways England. Highways England have announced they will be adopting a low fertility topsoil approach on all new road schemes as advocated in Plantlife’s report on Managing Grassland Road Verges. For more information visit https://www.reesjeffreys.co.uk/transport-reports/
Links to two interesting webinars RJ@70 and the FTVG’s 2020 Vision event can be found on our Publications page.
Mary Lewis has stood down as a Trustee after serving for six years. Mary played an invaluable role particularly in shaping the Fund’s approach to Bursaries, working with the Universities to update it for 2021 to reflect changing times. Mary has also made a big contribution to the work of Read more…
The Trustees are pleased to announce their decision to re-open the application process from 1st August 2020. Careful consideration has been given to the Fund’s overall financial position and its future commitments. It will continue with its policy of not making any new commitments before January 2021 and not to Read more…
Well done and thank you to everyone involved in the Fund’s first ever Webinar “What have the Roads ever done for us?”. Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbTuUirTKw&pbjreload=101 to view the event recording. An article on the event’s can be also found on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/never-waste-crisis-rethinking-what-we-want-our-roads-do-glenn-lyons/