The Battersea Scholarship will support an undergraduate student during their degree programme at the University of Surrey. The scholarship will provide £4,000 a year for three years of academic study, plus £4,000 for a Professional Training placement (if taken). The Battersea Scholarship will be awarded to one successful applicant.
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible to apply, the applicant must be a first year undergraduate Home/UK student who is from a care-experienced background.
Care experienced is defined as students who ''have spent time in local authority care, in a residential children's home, have been looked after at home by a supervision order or have lived with relatives under kinship care.''
Criteria for care experienced is as follows:
- Living with foster carers under local authority care
- In residential care (for example, a children's home)
- Looked after at home under a supervision order
- Or in kinship care with relatives or friends, either officially (for example, a special guardianship order) or informally without local authority support.
