IT Grant Application
In order to be eligible to apply for the WBS WP IT grant bursary, you must:
- Have an annual household income, as assessed by Student Finance England, of £35,000.01 or below
- Be resident in the UK and eligible to pay fees at the home rate
- Have applied to www.gov.uk/studentfinance for assessment for financial support and be in receipt of a Government Tuition Fee Loan and Maintenance Loan for the 2024-25 academic year.
Applicants must also satisfy at least one of the following criteria to be considered:
- Having spent time in local-authority care
- Be a refugee or asylum seeker having either limited leave to remain or are under 'humanitarian protection' or have been granted refugee status with indefinite leave to remain
- Living in a low participation neighbourhood (POLAR 4, quintile 1) and/or an area which has a high level of deprivation (Index of Multiple Deprivation, 0-20%)*
- Attended a school where average performance of students achieving 5 A*-C GCSE including English and Mathematics was below the national average and/or attended a school/college with below the national average performance at KS5**, with above national average entitlement/eligibility to Free School Meals.**
* To find out if your home postcode is in a low participation neighbourhood you can use the following postcode tool
** To find out if your school meets this criteria please use the following website.