Financial Assistance Funds
Funds are made up of 6 Sub-Funds. Details of each Fund can be found on this page.
The University of Lincoln Financial Assistance Funds are made up of 6 Sub-Funds. Details of each Fund can be found below.
Applications to theTerm Time FundandSummer Fund are assessed in accordance with the guidance produced and approved by the National Union of Students and the National Association of Student Money Advisors. Capped/set figures are used in some areas of the assessment and are agreed each year in advance of the funds opening.
UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FUNDS
Summer Fund 2023/24
It is intended to offer financial support to continuing University of Lincoln undergraduate students who are unable to work over the summer vacation period and who are experiencing financial hardship.
Please note: Final year students are not eligible to apply to the Summer Fund.
Applications may be made via downloadable pdf or online.
Term Time Fund 2023/24
This Fund is now closed for undergraduate students enrolled on courses with an official end date of 31st May 2024. Applications remain open for undergraduate students enrolled on “long courses” and postgraduate students.
For undergraduate and postgraduate students who are eligible for maintenance support from the Student Loans Company. This Fund is to help with living and course-related costs (not tuition fees) for students who are experiencing financial hardship.
You can apply to the fund online by clicking the link below or by using one of the downloadable .pdf forms.
Hesslewood Children’s Trust aims to provide a number of second year undergraduate students from schools in Kingston upon Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, Gainsborough, and Caistor with a financial needs bursary. Students must be under the age of 25 years at the time of receiving the award.
Students applying for this Fund must first make an application to the University of Lincoln Financial Assistance Funds Term Time Fund in order for eligibility to be established. They should also provide evidence that they attended school in one of the areas listed above.
Upon receipt, your application will be assessed for the Term Time Fund and if successful an award will be made at that time. After term 1, your application will then be re-considered for the Hesslewood Children’s Trust.
Awards will be made to those eligible students who are considered to be in the greatest financial need.
Further information can be found here.
Notice - Application forms
We are unable to accept paper applications. Forms can be scanned and sent to studentfundingteam@lincoln.ac.uk. Alternatively, you can apply to the fund online.
Course-related Travelling Grant 2023/24
The Course-related Travelling Grant is to help with travel, within the UK or abroad, for course-related activities, which are unaffordable. The travel could be for a work placement, to attend a conference or to study abroad.
Students must have UK or EU status, be enrolled on an undergraduate or postgraduate course and have the support of their academic tutor to be considered. Applications from overseas status students may also be considered on the recommendation of a Specialist Adviser.
Independent Students' Summer Accommodation Grant 2023/24
To help continuing University of Lincoln students who are studying at undergraduate level, aged under 25 at the start of the academic year, considered independent* according to their Student Finance application assessment and have to pay commercial rent throughout the entire duration of the summer vacation period.
Students in receipt of Student Finance Maintenance Loan funding throughout the entire academic year i.e. 52 weeks, are not eligible to apply.
This is a targeted Fund and eligible students will be contacted towards the end of the Academic Year.
* You receive maximum funding but did not have to supply evidence of household income from a spouse/partner/parent, etc.
Gender Expression Fund 2023/24 - CLOSED
Many people experience feelings of stress and anxiety at the disconnect they feel between their gender identity and appearance. We have created the Gender Expression Fund to provide financial assistance for students to purchase items that will make them more comfortable with their gender presentation and, we hope, improve their wellbeing.
Commuting Travel Grant 2023/24 - CLOSED
This Fund has been created in recognition of the rural nature of Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire. It’s intended as acontributionto the travel costs incurred by eligible undergraduate students who attend University from their permanent home address.
Applicants should be:
- An enrolled University of Lincoln Undergraduate student
- Eligible for the maintenance element of Student Finance*
- Have to pay to travel to attend the University from your permanent home address and live in Lincolnshire or North Lincolnshire (outside the area covered by the standard Megarider bus ticket)
*According to the 2023/24 Student Finance application assessment.
Foyer/Supported Housing Bursary 2023/24
For students who enrol at University having come directly from living in a Foyer or other supported housing* (*where they lived between the ages of 16 to 18). Each year the Foyer Federationinform the University of students who intend to enrol directly from living in a Foyer. These Bursaries are funded through the University of Lincoln Hardship Fund.
Evidence of period in supported housing and any benefits received should be supplied. The total award per year is £1,000 which is paid in 3 termly instalments (subject to attendance checks). Students should apply each year.
You cannot get both the Foyer/Supported Housing Bursary and the Blackburn Bursary.
Welfare benefits
If your course has finished, you are not eligible for these funds but may be able to apply for welfare benefits – if you want to speak to an Adviser, please email advice@lincoln.ac.uk for a telephone appointment.
If you are not sure of your eligibility for these funds, please speak to an Adviser.
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