Removing barriers, one journey at a time.
RIDESAFE – SAFE RIDES
RideSafe is a community-driven initiative helping charities and support organisations provide safe, reliable transport for the people who need it most. Created to address the growing challenge of transport accessibility, RideSafe works to remove barriers to support, reduce financial pressures on charities and help ensure that vulnerable individuals can safely access the services, opportunities and assistance they need to thrive.
Transport cost mitigation
Reducing travel costs for charities
Rescue Rides
Providing a route to exit
SafeRides
Supporting vulnerable folks safely.
Community connection
Bringing together the community
Ridesafe.org.uk
What is Ridesafe?
Ride Safe is a pilot project working in partnership with charities, corporate sponsors and transport providers to fund essential taxi travel for vulnerable people.
We aim to remove the financial burden of transport costs so charities can focus their resources on frontline support.
What do we do?
We bring together corporate sponsors, charities, and trusted transport providers to fund and coordinate essential journeys. This ensures vulnerable individuals can access the support they need safely, reliably, and without added cost to frontline services.
Why?
Transport should never be a barrier to care or safeguarding. Ride Safe exists to ease pressure on charities by covering or reducing travel costs, helping more funding reach the people and services that need it most.
How far a coffee can go..
You can support us for as little as the price of a coffee.
That coffee fee can go a long way to mitigate the taxi travel around town.
Get involved?
Help us say: “We’ve got you.”
Through corporate-sponsored support, we help ensure that access is never delayed by cost or transport barriers.
We’re currently inviting founding partners to support the pilot phase of RideSafe. If your organisation can help bring this to life, we’d love to hear from you.
Keep in touch
Press releases, articles and adventures from the RideSafe project.
The Beginning
The Story So Far RideSafe began with a simple observation: too many charities and community organisations were having to use precious funding to arrange transport for the people who needed[…]
Read morePilot Partners
This is a pilot project supported by our key partners.
Without them, this wouldn’t even be an option.
COSY
Pilot Partner
ABSOLUTE LEGENDS – COSY are a UK-based, award-winning supplier of early years and educational resources and all round charitable legends.
Known for their focus on natural, outdoor learning environments, sustainability, and social impact, including charitable giving through the COSY Foundation.
Donation partners
A huge thank you to our corporate donation partners for their generous support and commitment to our work.
Their contributions help us support local charities, deliver community projects and create opportunities for people across Derby.
We are incredibly grateful for their partnership and the positive impact they help us make every day.
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