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Community Scholarship

 Please note: Applications are now closed.

Key facts
Overview
Eligibility
Application process
Terms and conditions

Key facts

Start dates

September 2024

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Study level

Undergraduate

Award value

£1000

Eligible course awards

BA (Hons), BSc (Hons), MEng, Fd(A), Fd(Sc)

Number of awards

10

Application deadline

23 June 2024

Overview

The Oxford Brookes University Community Scholarship rewards those students who have overcome personal or social difficulties.

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.

Students who are successful in being awarded the Community Scholarship are given a one off payment of £1,000 in their first year of study. This money does not have to be paid back, as long as the student completes their course.

Eligibility

Eligibility criteria

In order to be eligible for the scholarship, applicants must meet all of the following criteria and must:

  • Attend an eligible school or college (see below)
  • 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 or have indefinite leave to remain. 
  • 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 Oxford Brookes when applying to SFE and must provide SFE with their bank account details).
  • Demonstrate through their application that:
    • They have overcome personal or social challenges; or
    • Made a significant contribution to their community.
Applications will be considered by a panel and priority will be given to applicants who meet  at least one of the following criteria:
  • you are a mature student (over 21 years of age at the beginning of your undergraduate studies)
  • you live in local authority care, or you have lived in care,
  • you are a young carer (i.e. 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 your 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.
Students must be attending a state school or college within Oxfordshire, or one of the schools or colleges listed below, to be eligible to apply.

Our Associate Partner Colleges

  • Abingdon and Witney College
  • Activate Learning (City of Oxford College, Reading College, Banbury & Bicester College, Bracknell & Wokingham College, Merrist Wood College, Farnham College, Guildford College)
  • Brooklands College
  • Bridgwater & Taunton College
  • New College Swindon
  • Solihull College & University Centre

Our partner schools and colleges

  • Blessed George Napier School
  • Carterton Community College
  • Chadwell Academy
  • Cheney School
  • Greyfriars Catholic School
  • Halesowen College
  • Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
  • North Oxfordshire Academy (NOA)
  • Oaks Park High school
  • Slough and Eton College
  • St Brendan's Sixth Form College
  • St Charles Sixth Form College
  • St Paul’s Catholic School
  • The Bicester School
  • The Henry Box School
  • UTC Swindon
  • Wheatley Park

This funding is available to students studying on the following courses:

Undergraduate

Application process

To apply for this scholarship please complete the Community Scholarship 2024 Application Form by Sunday 23 June 2024. Only applications completed in full will be accepted.

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

 Please note: Applications are now closed.

Terms and conditions

The following applies to 2024 entrants only:

  • Community Scholarships are only available to applicants who are currently studying at an eligible school or college (see above).
  • Students applying for deferred entry are not eligible for the Community Scholarship.
  • 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.
  • Applicants for a stand alone top up course are not eligible.
  • Scholarships are only available to students studying for their first degree. Applicants who have already studied at another university will not be eligible.
  • Students are responsible for applying individually for the award.
  • The scholarship will be awarded at a rate of £1,000 in the first year of study only.
  • Nominees must hold UK citizenship.
  • 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.
  • Payment of the Scholarship will cease from the date the student leaves or is withdrawn from their Brookes course.
  • 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.
  • Students must be in attendance on their Brookes course on the instalment dates in November and February to be entitled to both instalments.
  • Recipients of the Sanctuary Scholarship are not eligible for any other Brookes Bursaries or Scholarships except the Brookes Engage Scholarship, the Community Scholarship or the Santander Scholarship.