City Cares Bursary

This bursary is for Home/UK undergraduates ordinarily resident in England who have experience of being in local authority care, are irreconcilably estranged from their family or have unpaid caring responsibilities.

If you are a new Home/UK undergraduate student starting at City in 2022/23 and can demonstrate you fall into any of the following three categories, you may be eligible for the City Cares Bursary:

• You live or have lived in care and are still receiving support from your local authority
• You are irreconcilably estranged from your parents (as assessed by Student Finance England)
• You have unpaid caring responsibilities.

In all cases, you must also:

• Be resident in England ordinarily
• Have residual household income of £25,000 a year or less as assessed by Student Finance England (SFE) by 31st October 2022. Priority is given to students with the lowest household income
• Be 25 years old or younger on the 1st September 2022.