Monday 5 Aug 2024
Applications now open for £175,000 TRU Community Fund
- Region & Route:
- Eastern
From today (Monday 5 August), the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is excited to announce that the application window for small grants (£1000 - £5000) as part of our newly launched community fund is now open.
The fund will give local community groups, schools and charities across our 70-mile route the opportunity to enhance indoor or outdoor community-focused facilities in the areas we’re working in.
Medium grants (£5000 - £20,000) will also be available as part of the £175,000 fund, with applications open from Monday 19 August.
Community projects within 5 miles of the core TRU route and its key diversionary routes will be eligible to receive funding, with those that focus on improving and encouraging the use of public space likely to be favoured, particularly in areas of high social need.
The allocation of the funding is being independently managed on behalf of TRU by GMCVO, who work to strengthen the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector.
The community fund will ensure that TRU, a multi-billion-pound railway programme, can drive real, long-term benefits to the towns and communities it will be operating in over the next decade.
Interested parties can follow this link to apply for the grants and find more details: Transpennine Route Upgrade Community Fund | www.gmcvo.org.uk
Notes to Editors
TRU will bring better journeys for passengers:
- More trains to choose from and more seats. Our improvements will enable more trains to run between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York with up to six fast services every hour between Leeds and Manchester and up to two stopping services for local connectivity.
- Faster journeys so you can travel to your favourite towns and cities more quickly. Our fastest journey times are forecast to be 63-66 minutes between Manchester and York and 41-42 minutes between Manchester and Leeds.
- More reliable journeys with trains that run on-time.
- Better stations across the Transpennine route, bringing passengers a better travel experience through improved, more accessible station.
- Greener travel, reducing our carbon footprint and improving air quality. Our plans aim to save up to 87,000 tonnes of carbon emissions each year. We’re also developing a proposal to move more goods by rail (up to 15 more freight trains each day), taking lorries off the road. Together, these freight trains are expected to remove over 1,000 lorries off the road each day.
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