Overview
If you are a young adult carer offering support to someone and you are considering full-time undergraduate study at Oxford Brookes, there is a lot of additional support that the University can offer you.
The NHS definition states that: A carer is anyone, including children and adults who looks after a family member, partner or friend who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction and cannot cope without their support.
To be eligible, you must:
- be enrolled on a full-time undergraduate or foundation degree and registered as a student at Oxford Brookes University
- start your course here in the 2026/27 academic year
- be aged 25 years or under at the start of the course
- have a completed Oxford Brookes student carer record form, in collaboration with the named contact for student carer support, in the Student Welfare Team
- be formally recognised as a carer for someone as outlined by the NHS definition
- be in receipt of statutory funding from the Student Loans Company
- GBS students are not eligible to apply for the Young Carer Bursary
