Overview
About this opportunity
Support for Sport and Youth Leadership students who have faced extra challenges in their lives. This could include being the main carer in a family, living with a disability or currently being in receipt of free school meals. Eligibility: Hold a firm offer to study a new full-time course, excluding foundation year and distance learning, in the 2026/27 academic year in BSc (Hons) Sport and Youth Leadership course. Have a household income of £42,875 or less. We’ll check this against your Student Finance application. Please contact us if you will not be applying to Student Finance for a maintenance loan. Be a UK student, English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish, paying the standard full-time fees, and have a UK Student Support Number. Pay for your course yourself, including through a student loan or a payment from your parents. Your course fees must not be paid by a business, charity or other organisation. You will also need to satisfy one of these criteria: Be a First Generation student. From a family where neither your parents nor guardians attended university and got an undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification in the UK or abroad. Have experience of local authority care. Be a main carer for a family member or dependent. Get disability benefits. Get the Education Maintenance Allowance or free school meals. Permanently live in an area of high deprivation and low participation in higher education. Be irreconcilably estranged from your parents or not have communicated with them for at least a year before you intend to start your degree.
Further details
- Study level
- undergraduate
- Subject areas
- Any / Open
- Application method
- online
- Eligibility
- Hold a firm offer to study a new full-time course, excluding foundation year and distance learning, in the 2026/27 academic year in BSc (Hons) Sport and Youth Leadership course. Have a household income of £42,875 or less. We’ll check this against your Student Finance application. Please contact us if you will not be applying to Student Finance for a maintenance loan. Be a UK student, English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish, paying the standard full-time fees, and have a UK Student Support Number. Pay for your course yourself, including through a student loan or a payment from your parents. Your course fees must not be paid by a business, charity or other organisation. You will also need to satisfy one of these criteria: Be a First Generation student. From a family where neither your parents nor guardians attended university and got an undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification in the UK or abroad. Have experience of local authority care. Be a main carer for a family member or dependent. Get disability benefits. Get the Education Maintenance Allowance or free school meals. Permanently live in an area of high deprivation and low participation in higher education. Be irreconcilably estranged from your parents or not have communicated with them for at least a year before you intend to start your degree.