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Funding for financial need or hardship, parents or carers

Adult Dependent's Grant

Care to Learn

Discretionary Learner Support

Helena Kennedy Foundation Trust

Lawrence Atwell's Charity

The Thomas Wall Trust

Adult Dependent's Grant

If you are in full-time higher education and have an adult who depends on you financially, you may be entitled to a government grant (on top of any other student finance). 

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Care to Learn

If you are a parent under the age of 20 when you start studying, Care to Learn is a government benefit that can help pay for your childcare costs while you’re learning.  Your course must have some public funding and can’t be a higher education course at a university.

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Discretionary Learner Support

If you are aged 19 or over, Discretionary Learner Support might be one source of help. To be eligible to apply you must be 19 or over and be accepted onto and studying a programme of learning funded by the Skills Funding Agency. The funds are prioritized for those facing financial hardship and can be used to help with costs such as those for childcare, accommodation, essential course-related equipment, materials, field trips and travel.

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Helena Kennedy Foundation Trust

The Trust offers one-off bursaries of £ £2,25 to selected students studying at an FE college or sixth form college, and are applying for university degrees. They also provide the ‘DISCOVER’ bursaries to students who are currently at college. These bursaries are available to students who are in the first year of a two year level 3 study programme.

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Lawrence Atwell's Charity

The charity provides grants to young people from low-income backgrounds; to help them move into work, develop vocational qualifications, and improve their life chances

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The Thomas Wall Trust

The Thomas Wall Trust offers individuals grants up to £1,500 to undertake accredited vocational training up to level 3 and towards other costs associated with studying. 

 

Other funders

You may also want to browse through other groups of funders, as follows:

Funding related to veterinary studies, science or animals

Funding for women

Funding for specific locations, groups or nationalities

General educational funding

Information and support services

 

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