About us
Mission & vision
The Foundation for Integrated Transport is a grant-making charity established by the late Dr Simon Norton in 2014 to promote UK-focused sustainable and transformational transport solutions.
Simon’s vision was a world where…
Humans have a right to get around without a car
People can travel with minimum impact on other people’s lives and the environment
Trains and buses are integrated and safe and attractive routes are provided for walking and cycling
Barriers to transport justice are removed, by means which include volunteering and social enterprise
The Foundation for Integrated Transport is one of the few grant-making trusts devoted entirely to promoting change on transport issues in the UK. Our aim is to meet our founder Simon Norton’s vision.
In 2025, trustees reviewed the Foundation’s strategy, clarifying our vision, mission and outcomes for the coming years.
Our vision
A country where convenient, affordable and integrated public transport is available to everyone as a basic right, and where people can live well without needing a car.
Our mission
To fund and support individuals and organisations that are driving the radical transformation of public transport and active travel in the UK – improving people’s quality of life, ensuring fair access to opportunities, creating more liveable communities and benefitting the environment.
The outcomes we support
- Decision makers, people and organisations take action to reduce car use and increase sustainable travel.
- Public transport is convenient, affordable, integrated and widely used.
- Walking and cycling routes are safe, attractive and well-integrated with public transport.
- There is a reduction in car use and dependence.
Our funding principles
- We support local initiatives and causes at a community level as well as national initiatives that address the big pictures of investment and government policy.
- We are ambitious and not afraid of funding new and radical approaches.
- We fund work that has the potential for ongoing impact and that others can learn from and replicate.
- We support those who are building communities of changemakers.
- We focus on changes to land-based transport, with reductions in the use of aviation celebrated but not directly funded.
FIT’s Theory of Change
Dr Simon Norton
FIT’s focus on transport as a basic human right and climate change reflects Simon’s priorities and serves as a memorial to him.