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.

If an applicant is successful in receiving the Scholarship we would expect them to help with one or more of the projects we run to raise awareness about the opportunities there are in Higher Education. This may include, for example; returning to their school/college to encourage others to aspire to seek a place at university, supporting an event on campus or writing a profile about their experience.

To apply for this scholarship please complete the Community Scholarship 2021 Application Form by Monday the 14th of June. Only applications completed in full will be accepted.

If you have any questions, please email communityscholarships@brookes.ac.uk

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Successful scholars will receive their Community Scholarship payments in two instalments in their first year of study, one instalment in November and one in February.

Brookes will pay the Scholarship directly into the bank account for which the student has provided details to Student Finance England. In order for us to be able to award the Scholarship, applicants must 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).

No, this money does not have to be paid back as long as the student completes their course; see the terms and conditions for details.

The following schools and colleges are eligible:

• any state-maintained secondary school or college in Oxfordshire
• our Associate College Partnerships
• our Study Higher schools/colleges
• our partner schools/colleges

Eligible schools/colleges are as follows:

Abingdon and Witney College (Witney)
Abingdon and Witney College (Abingdon)
Activate Learning, Banbury and Bicester College
Activate Learning, City of Oxford College
Activate Learning, Reading College
Andover College
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports And Humanities College
Barnwell School
Barton Peveril Sixth Form College
Bath College
Beechwood School
Bilborough College
Birmingham Metropolitan College
Blessed George Napier Catholic School and Sports College
Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School
Bordesley Green Girls' School & Sixth Form
Bourne End Academy (The Wye Valley School)
Bradon Forest School
Bridgwater and Taunton College
Bristol Brunel (Cabot Learning Federation)
Brockenhurst College
Brooklands College
Buckinghamshire College Group
Burnham Park E-ACT Academy
Cabot learning Federation
Cadbury Sixth Form College
Caludon Castle School
Carterton Community College
Central Foundation Girls' School
Chadwell Heath Academy
Chase High School
Cheney School
Chiltern Hills Academy
Chobham Academy
Christ The King Sixth Form College
Churchfields Academy
City And Islington College
CIty of Bristol College
City Of Westminster College
Coulsdon Sixth Form College
Cranford Community College
Cressex Community School
Denefield School
Dudley College Of Technology
Easthampstead Park Community School
Edmonton County School
Erith School (Now King Henry)
Featherstone High School
Finham Park School
Forest Academy
Forest School
Gable Hall School
Garth Hill College
Gateway Sixth Form College
Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology
Graveney School
Greenford High School
Halesowen College
Hamstead Hall Academy
Handsworth Wood Girls' Academy
Harris Academy South Norwood
Havering Sixth Form College
Heartlands Academy
Highcrest Academy
Holyhead School
Isambard Community School
Itchen College
Jack Hunt School
John Cabot Academy
John Madejski Academy
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
Joseph Leckie Community Technology College
King Edward Vi College Nuneaton
King Edward Vi College Stourbridge
Kingsbury High School
Kingsdown School
Lampton Academy
Leyton Sixth Form College
London Academy Of Excellence
Lord Grey School
Loxford School
Luton Sixth Form College
Luton Sixth Form College
Lydiard Park Academy
Mayfield School
Milton Keynes College
Mulberry School For Girls
Mulberry School For Girls
New City College
New College (Swindon)
New College Swindon
Gosford Hill School
Newham Sixth Form College
Noel-Baker Academy
North Oxfordshire Academy
Northampton Academy
Nottingham Girls' Academy
Nottingham Girls' Academy
Nova Hreod
Nower Hill School
Oaks Park High School
Outwood Academy Newbold
Oxford Spires Academy
Palmer's College
Plumstead Manor School
Preston Manor School
Prospect School
Ranelagh School
Reading Girls' School
Richard Taunton Sixth Form College
Richmond-Upon-Thames College
Robert Clack School
Robert Clack School
Royal Wootton Bassett Academy
Ruskin College
Sandwell Academy
Sandwell College
Seven Kings School
Seven Kings School
Sidney Stringer Academy
Sir George Monoux College
Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School
Sir Herbert Leon Academy
Sir John Cass Foundation And Redcoat Church Of England Secondary School
Sir William Ramsay School
Slough And Eton Church Of England Business And Enterprise College
Solihull College and University Centre
South And City College Birmingham
South And City College Birmingham
St Angela's Ursuline School
St Bartholomew's School
St Bonaventure's RC School
St Brendan's Sixth Form College
St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College
St Dominic's Sixth Form College
St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College
St Gregory the Great Catholic School
St Joseph's Catholic College
St Michael’s Catholic School
St Paul's Catholic School
Stanmore College
Stantonbury Campus
Swanlea School
Swindon Academy
Swindon College
The Aylesbury Vale Academy
The Bicester School
The Brakenhale School
The Bulmershe School
The Commonweal School
The Cottesloe School
The Dorcan Academy
The Grange School
The Heathland School
The Henry Box School
The Mandeville School Specialist Sports College
The Milton Keynes Academy
The Nottingham Emmanuel School
The Oxford Academy
The Petchey Academy
The Radcliffe School
The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College
The Ripley Academy
The Sixth Form College Farnborough
The Sixth Form College, Solihull
The Stourport High School And Sixth Form Centre
Trinity School
Twyford Church Of England High School
UTC Swindon
Uxbridge College
Uxbridge College
Valentines High School
Waddesdon Church Of England School
Wembley High Technology College
Weston College
Wiltshire College
Woodhouse College
Woolwich Polytechnic School
Wyggeston And Queen Elizabeth I College
Wood Green School

Aureus School
Bartholomew School
Burford School
Didcot Girls School
Faringdon Community College
Fitzharrys School
Gillots School
Gosford Hill School
Icknield Community College
John Mason School
King Alfreds
Langtree School
Larkmead School
Lord Williams School
Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge
Matthew Arnold School
St Birinus School
The Cherwell School
The Cooper School
The Henley College
The Marlborough Church of England School
The Warriner School
Wallingford School
Wheatley Park School

 

The following applies to 2021 entrants only:

1. Community Scholarships are only available to applicants who are currently studying at an eligible school or college (see above).
2. Students applying for deferred entry are not eligible for the Community Scholarship.
3. Applicants must firmly accept a place on either a full time degree or a foundation degree at Oxford Brookes University or one of our partner colleges.
4. Applicants for a stand alone top up course are not eligible.
5. Scholarships are only available to students studying for their first degree. Applicants who have already studied at another university will not be eligible.
6. Students are responsible for applying individually for the award.
7. The scholarship will be awarded at a rate of £1,000 in the first year of study only.
8. Nominees must hold UK citizenship.
9. Scholarships will be terminated in cases when students are found to be in breach of the Student Conduct Regulations and have been subject to, and found guilty by, a disciplinary process which in the judgement of the University would warrant withdrawal of the Scholarship.
10. Payment of the Scholarship will cease from the date the student leaves or is withdrawn from their Brookes course.
11. In circumstances when a student changes programme or mode of study to one which falls outside the eligibility criteria, the student will no longer be eligible for the Scholarship.
12. Students must be in attendance on their Brookes course on the instalment dates in November and February to be entitled to both instalments.