Blackburn Bursary (for Care Leavers)

The Blackburn Bursary is a set amount of £1500 paid to eligible students in two instalments for each completed level of study.

The first instalment of £500 is paid upon approval of application following enrolment. The 2nd instalment of £1000 is paid upon successful completion of the level of the programme enrolled.

Eligibility

- Students must be a ‘Home' student, which is determined by the funding provider (e.g. Student Finance England) and not the student status that University of Lincoln allocates to you.

- EU students and international students are not eligible.

- Students must be officially enrolled and studying a first degree at Undergraduate level.

- Students studying on a part-time basis, must have a course intensity of at least 25% of a full-time equivalent.

- Students must be under the age of 25.

- Students must have been in the care of, or have been given accommodation by, their local authority.

- Their time in care must have lasted at least 13 weeks.

- Their time in care must have ended after they turned 16.

- Students must not have returned to the care of their parent(s) prior to the first day of the first academic year of their course.

- Students must not have previously received the Blackburn Bursary for the same year of study.