Discretionary Fund

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Key facts

  • Number of scholarships: Various
  • Value: Various
  • Opens: 28 October 2024
  • Deadline: 30 June 2025
  • Helps with: Living costs, Travel costs
  • Duration: One off award

Summary

Are you struggling to cover your essential living costs? The Discretionary Fund awards are non - repayable top ups to your standard student support such as student loan. If you are a home student or from the rest of UK you might be eligible for support from the fund. 

We are awaiting the funding allocation from the Scottish Government. Once received, the fund will open, which may occur either before or after 16 September 2024

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Eligibility

The Discretionary Fund is intended for students who are in, or may be facing, severe financial difficulty.  EU and international students are not normally eligible to apply. 

The Discretionary fund assessment looks at your income and essential expenditure to see if you have a shortfall between these and if so, can the fund help cover this shortfall. If your shortfall is too large the fund may not be able to help with this because the fund cannot be the main source of income for a student.

Eligibility at a Glance*

  • A registered full or part time Undergraduate or Postgraduate student at the University of Strathclyde
  • Studying a course with a normal credit load of 30 credits or more
  • Applied for and had their application assessed for all statutory funding, including maintenance loans, to which they are entitled (typically SAAS support, the equivalent support from other funding bodies in the rest of the UK.
  • Is UK domiciled and meets residency criteria set out in the Education (Access Funds) (Scotland) Determination 2013, or is eligible to receive maintenance support under legislation applicable in other parts of the UK
  • The fund cannot make awards to assist students with travel costs related to periods of exchange or study abroad
  • The fund cannot make awards to assist with tuition fees

*Full eligibility can be found in the University of Strathclyde Discretionary Fund Assessment Guidance.

Subject eligibility

Accounting & finance, Architecture, Biomedical engineering, Chemical engineering, Chemistry, Civil & environmental engineering, Computer science, Design manufacture & engineering management, Economics, Education, Electronic & electrical engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, History, Human resource management, Law, Marketing, Mathematics & statistics, Mechanical & aerospace engineering, Languages, Naval architecture ocean & marine engineering, Pharmacy & biomedical sciences, Physics, Politics, Psychology, Speech & language therapy, Business, Journalism, Hospitality & tourism, Management, Forensic science, Management science, Social policy, Teaching, Aeronautical engineering, Biochemistry, Biology & biological sciences, Biomedical science, Civil engineering, Data analytics, Environmental engineering, Health, Immunology, International relations, Mechanical engineering, Microbiology, Naval architecture, Ocean engineering, Pharmacology, Product design, Prosthetics & orthotics, Renewable energy, Social work, Software engineering, Sports engineering, Engineering, Science

Levels eligibility

Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught, Postgraduate Research

Study modes eligibility

Full Time, Part Time, Distance

Fee Status

Home (Scottish), England or N. Ireland or Rep. Ireland or Wales

Student type

Current student

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Further information

  • The Discretionary fund assessment looks at your income and essential expenditure to see if you have a shortfall between these and if so, can the fund help cover this shortfall. If your shortfall is too large the fund may not be able to help with this because the fund cannot be the main source of income for a student.
  • The fund cannot make awards to assist students with travel costs related to periods of exchange or study abroad
  • The fund cannot make awards to assist with tuition fees

 

 

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How to apply

  1. Complete the Application for Financial Support form if you wish to apply for financial support. You only need to submit one application (and one set of supporting documents) and our assessing team will assess your circumstances and eligibility across all of the funds we administer (Housing Support Fund, Mature Students Hardship Fund, The Lady Eileen McDonald EU & International Student Fund and Discretionary Fund). 
  2. Please complete the application, ensure you include all income and expenditure.  We cannot assess an incomplete application.  You must provide all the documents needed or your application will be delayed.  Please provide photocopies, originals will not be returned.

Application for Financial Support

University of Strathclyde Discretionary Fund Assessment Guidance

 

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Contact us

Funding and Financial Support Team 

financial-support@strath.ac.uk  (for enquiries only)

 0141 548 2753