The Sam and John Dawson Scholarship

The Sam and John Dawson Scholarship will provide a maximum of £60,000 per student (£15,000 per year for three years, plus a Professional Training Year, if taken) for a care-experienced student at the University of Surrey.

The Sam and John Dawson Scholarship will support an undergraduate care-experienced student during their degree programme at the University of Surrey.

Applicants studying a STEM course are encouraged to apply, but this is not a compulsory criterion.

The terms of the scholarship listed above are at the discretion of the donor and may be subject to change.

To be eligible to apply, the applicant must be:

• A first-year undergraduate home/UK student
• From a care-experienced background (see definition below)
• Studying a STEM course at Surrey (see course list below) – this criterion is non-compulsory

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

• Living with foster carers under local authority care
• In residential care (e.g. a children's home)
• Looked after at home under a supervision order
• Or in kinship care with relatives or friends, either officially (e.g. a special guardianship order) or informally without local authority support.