Financial Advice
&
Funding Support for Students
The advisers can support and advise you on financial hardship difficulties. We offer support in the following areas: debts, grants, loans, overseas fees, council tax and can provide other channels to help students cope who are in financial distress. We offer students to book appointments for a private and charities based funding database, called ‘FunderFinder’. This is a database that has a collection of external funding organisations. A search is done based on the your hardship criteria and list of matching funding providers is generated at the end of the application. Students are then able to make individual application to each of these organisations separately. All details are supplied for you. You are able to make an appointment for the ‘FunderFinder’ by either calling us or dropping in during our opening times to book appointment for the ‘Funderfinder’ with an advisor.
Students' Union Hardship Funds
Also available to students are several Students’ Union targeted funds intended for the following hardship areas- medical, housing and childcare costs etc.
The funds available are:
(1 application per student per academic year.)
· Students With Disabilities Fund – intended to assist students who incur extra additional costs as a result of disability, maximum award £1500. Before coming to us for assistance on disability rights please make sure that the school’s Disability Office have seen you to determine if you require an ISSA. (link to Disabilities office website)
· Childcare Fund – intended to assist students who incur additional costs as a result of childcare, maximum award £1000.
· Women's Right to Choose Fund- help towards cost of termination or pre-birth costs, maximum award approx. £500.
· Council Tax Fund – open to all students who have a liability for Council Tax, maximum award £250.
· Small Claims Fund – is intended to assist students who are seeking to recover their damages through the small claims process through the county court, maximum award £500.
· Medical Costs Fund- is intended to assist students who incur additional costs as with respect to unexpected medical needs, maximum award £500.
· Re-sits Fund- open to students who are re-sitting exams, or re-taking all or part of an academic year without adequate additional funding, maximum award £1000.
All fund applications must include appropriate evidence pertaining to the fund such as 2 months of bank statements, utility bills, travel costs, childcare costs, evidence of debts, cost of living (medical evidence and documentation if applying to the SU Medical Fund or the SU Students with Disabilities fund, including ISSA where appropriate.) All of the funds, apart from the Students with Disabilities and the Women's Right To Choose Funds are means tested.
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