Applicants must be at a state-maintained secondary school or college in Oxfordshire, one of our Associate College Partnerships, Partner Schools or a Study Higher school/college. For more details, please see Eligible Schools and Colleges below.
Students are responsible for making their own application for the award but must nominate a teacher whom we can contact to obtain a supporting reference.
In order to be eligible for the scholarship, applicants must meet all of the following:
- firmly accept a place on either a full time three or four year degree course or a full time foundation degree course at one of our partner colleges as their first degree (students can apply for the scholarship before they firmly accept, but must meet this condition in order to receive the scholarship)
- agree to the community scholarship terms and conditions
- hold UK citizenship
- have made an online application to Student Finance England (SFE) and be eligible for an offer of funding (the offer does not need to be accepted but the applicant must have consented to share their information with Brookes when applying to SFE and must provide SFE with their bank account details).
In addition, applicants must also demonstrate that they meet at the following criteria:
- overcoming of personal or social difficulties
In addition, you must also meet at least one of the following criteria:
- You are a mature student
- You live in local authority care, or you have lived in care
- You are a young carer (ie. you're under 18 and help to look after a relative with a disability, illness, mental health condition, or drug or alcohol problem)
- You have a disability or specific learning difficulty
- You are of black or minority ethnic origin
- You have been eligible for free school meals in the last 3 years, and/or a sixth form bursary
- You have official refugee status in the UK, or you are an asylum seeker
- You live in a postcode area with low HE progression and/or high socio-economic disadvantage (by providing us with you postcode on your application, we will be able to check this)
- You have been irreconcilably estranged from both of your birth parents
- Your parent(s)/guardian(s) have served in the armed forces at any time within the past six years
Priority will also be given to students who demonstrate that they have taken part in significant engagement in the community (including volunteering), or been a successful role model for other students.