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 The deadline for applications is 23:59 on 14 June 2024.

The scholarships are open to students who are care leavers or estranged from their family, and who are applying for their first year of undergraduate study at ���ϲ����� starting in the academic year 2024/25.  The scholarship covers accommodation and bills for 365 days a year for up to three years of study.  It provides students with year-round, fit for purpose student accommodation that includes support of social integration, proactive well-being engagement and rapid responsiveness to welfare matters. 

Students applying must be:

• Care leavers or students who are estranged from their parents and recognised as such by student finance  
• Aged 25 or under on 1 September of the year of application
• Undertaking first and only course of undergraduate study
• Either holding a firm choice offer from the University
• Entering their first year of their undergraduate degree at the start of the scholarship
• UK home fee status student, i.e. not an international student
• In receipt of, or applying for, student finance/NHS funding reflecting care leaver/care experienced/estranged student status

Study years not supported are:

• Foundation Years
• Years involving study credits toward a Masters whether that be Postgraduate or Integrated with a Bachelors
• Repeat years
• Repeat years arising because of changing courses
• Years in which the student is aged 26 or older on 1 September  

Student Application Process:

  The deadline for applications is 23:59 on 14 June 2024.

All applicants need to either be in possession of a firm offer from ���ϲ�����.  They also need to meet the eligibility criteria outlined above and the terms and conditions of the scholarship.  

Please apply for your Northumbria accommodation as normal.  Do not rely on the Unite Foundation Scholarship for your 2024/25 accommodation provision as sadly they cannot award all eligible applications.

For an informal chat about the scheme before applying, contact Sue Vout or scholarships@northumbria.ac.uk

Last Updated:10/01/2024