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Overview
Scholarship type
Merit and need based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
£1,000 per year
Scholarship coverage
- living expenses
Description
The aim of the Care Leaver Bursary is to enable and encourage students who live in or have lived in care to pursue their undergraduate studies at UCL.
Benefits
The award will be £1,000 per year for the duration of the programme and is subject to satisfactory academic progress.
The bursary is awarded to cover maintenance costs.
Awardees can request for an advance payment of £200 to help with transition costs.
Eligibility
- Be domiciled in the UK with Home fee status;
- Be aged under 25 on the day your course starts and Have been in the care of, or been given accommodation by, their local authority (LA) for a period of at least 13 weeks before the age of 16, and
- Not have reconciled with their parents between leaving care and starting their course;
- Hold an offer of admission to UCL to study a full-time undergraduate degree or currently be studying a full-time undergraduate degree at UCL.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
United Kingdom
Nationality
British
Study experience required
High school
Age
Under 25
Application
Application deadline
Anytime
You do not have to complete a separate application for the UCL Care Experienced Bursary.
Once you have applied to study an undergraduate course at UCL, you should make an application for student finance.
You should then provide your Regional Funding Authority with:
a letter from your relevant local authority; or
a letter from a case/social worker.
This letter must confirm:
that you were looked after by a local authority (this includes being placed in foster care by your local authority)
the dates that you were/are in care
that you have not returned to the care of your parent(s) prior to the first day of the first academic year of your course
UCL will then receive your Care Experienced status confirmation from your Regional Funding Authority, and you will be automatically assessed for the bursary.