Prizes and grants are up for grabs in a competition to find the best vision of how to ensure our roads work for us all over the next 50 years.

The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund Competition is offering grants and prizes to encourage new and creative thinking about what road users, and society as a whole, expect from the roads of the future

Open until 5pm on Friday 22 October, or Monday 15 November for schools, the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund Competition is offering grants up to £5,000, plus cash prizes of £5,000 for schools, to encourage new and creative thinking about what road users, and society as a whole, expect from the roads of the future. It’s looking for 150 new ideas that ensure roads and streets deliver a better outcome for all.

Everyone is invited to enter – from schools to universities, SMEs, community groups and individuals.

The competition marks 150 years since the birth of William Rees Jeffreys, who founded the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund and was instrumental in improving the UK’s roads, including through safe road design.

Trustee Andy Graham said: “We aren’t just looking for the imagination, innovation and creativity of your ideas – we want to see how imaginatively and creatively they can be presented. Because that’s what we think William would himself have wanted as a way to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth.”

The winners of the awards will be revealed on 1 December 2021 at a virtual event.

For more details and to enter, click here.