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Hardship Fund
The Hardship Support Fund provides financial support to help you to access and remain in higher education, and can help alleviate unexpected financial hardship.
The Hardship Fund will open on Monday 19 October for September start Students who are Fully Enrolled, (Provisional enrolled students cannot access this fund until your enrolment is fully confirmed.)
There are two application intakes, one for students who started their course in the September intake, and one for Students who have started their course in the January intake. Please ensure you apply on the correct form, your 2026-27 SFE entitlement letter shows the Month your course started.
When submitting your application please ensure you have read the guidance fully and adhered to all the points, in particular uploading any documents.
Very Important - we need
- The 2026-27 Student Finance notification letter, all the pages, not the summary screens, or application progress screens
- Other statutory support, Childcare Grant / NHS Bursary / NHS Learning Grant / Social Work Bursary / Teacher Training Bursary - Please upload the Entitlement Letters for 2026-27
- If you are in receipt of benefits, we need the complete breakdown of this via Gov.UK showing how your benefits (universal credit) have been calculated to you latest couple of payments.
- 3 months bank statements, if you don't use theUse Open Banking part of the system (it is strongly recommended you use this, as it pulls through everything needed), then you must ensure that the last 3 months full bank statements are loaded
It is your responsibility to upload all the documents, Due to the demand on the fund, all applications are dealt with in strict date order, therefore please ensure you upload everything first time around, if we come to your application and documents are missing this will delay the assessing of you form further.
Online link to the September 2026 application - Will be live on Monday 19 October
Online link to the January 2027 application - (live from January 2027)
Students may be able to source some extra support through various trusts and charities. Please refer to the Student Money and Accommodation Advice team's information sheet: Educational trusts and charities and the links below.