Key information
Who it's for
Charities and further and higher education institutions supporting young people from low-income backgrounds needing financial support to access further or higher education.
What it will achieve
Reduced financial pressure, enabling learners to participate fully and progress in education.
Typical grant size
£25,000–£30,000 per year
Typical grant duration
3 years
Who it's for
Charities and further and higher education institutions supporting young people from low-income backgrounds needing financial support to access further or higher education.
What it will achieve
Reduced financial pressure, enabling learners to participate fully and progress in education.
Typical grant size
£25,000–£30,000 per year
Typical grant duration
3 years
What we fund
We fund scholarships, bursaries and grants so that young people seeking access to Higher and Further education won’t be held back by financial barriers.
This type of support opens doors for young Londoners from disadvantaged and marginalised backgrounds, who might otherwise be unable to progress through College or University.
We want to help create a more equitable society by ensuring that talent and hard work, not financial circumstances, determine a young person’s future.
Our Scholarships, Bursaries and Grants funding theme provides ring-fenced support to Further and Higher Education institutions, enabling them to address disadvantage, marginalisation and underrepresentation through targeted programmes.
We also award bursaries directly to individual students through a separate scheme which opens each August.
The change we want to see
- Young people from disadvantaged or low-income backgrounds are financially supported through their education.
How you might do it
- Providing bursary and scholarship schemes through an institution.
Who we've funded
Projects we've funded that fit into this theme:
Goldsmiths, University of London
Goldsmiths is an internationally renowned public research university situated in Lewisham with over 9,000 students studying the arts, social sciences and humanities.
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