Application deadline: the deadline for submitting an Expression of Interest is 15 December 2025
National transport disability charity, the Motability Foundation will now offer grants to smaller charities after reviewing its strategy. The Foundation has just announced 5 new funding rounds, in which it will consider grant applications from organisations with an annual turnover of £50,000 and above (this was previously £150,000 and above). The Foundation has also expanded its eligibility criteria to include Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DDPOs).
The Foundation funds, supports, researches and innovates to help all disabled people make the journeys they choose by:
o Overseeing the Motability Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year.
o Awarding grants to other charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible, and
o Carrying out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.
Motability currently has the following 5 grant programmes open to application for charities and organisations (if you click on the heading it should take you to full details of the respective grant scheme). 4 further grant programmes are expected to be announced later in 2025.
- Better Access to Active Travel Experiences and Equipment
- Better Access to Wheelchairs and Mobility Aids – Large Grants
- Better Access to Wheelchairs and Mobility Aids – Small Grants
- Expanding Access to Driving Tuition for Disabled People
- Support for Travel Training Schemes
Eligible organisations are requested to only apply to the funding round that fits most closely with their project and the amount of funding required need to deliver it. We only consider one application at a time.
If you click on the heading of each of the 5 grant programmes above, this will take you to information about the application process.
The deadline for 4 out of 5 of the programmes is Monday 15 December 2025 for Expressions of Interest. The ‘Expanding Access to Driving Tuition for Disabled People’ has a deadline of Tuesday 31st March 2026.
Further information and guidance is available on the Foundation’s website.
