About the fund

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The Here East Scholarship Programme is designed to support students from east London by providing full undergraduate tuition and supporting loan supplements to local students who are hoping to study at world-class universities: Staffordshire University London, Teesside University London, and LMA, based at Here East.

Here East will award a Scholarship to no more than three Scholarship Winners per academic year, and the award for each recipient includes:

• A one-off payment of the tuition fee loan obtained by the relevant Scholarship Winner from Student Finance England at the end of the relevant scholar’s degree.


• Maintenance payments of £2,700 for each academic year of the scholar's course of study. Here East will make this payment directly to the scholar at the start of each academic year.

Eligibility

This Scholarship opportunity is open to all individuals:

• Who currently reside in Hackney, Newham, Waltham Forest, and Tower Hamlet; or


• Who have attended secondary school in Hackney, Newham, Waltham Forest, and Tower Hamlet; and


• Who are eligible for, and applying to, Student Finance (England) for funding. Whilst your application does not need to have been approved for you to apply, it will need to be approved for you to be selected for the scholarship. An income assessment must have been conducted and consent given to share the information with the university; and


• Who have applied to, or are intending to apply to, an undergraduate programme for the academic year 2024/25 at one of the institutions on the Here East campus (Staffordshire University London, Teeside University London, or LMA)

This Scholarship opportunity is not open to:

• Employees or the immediate family of employees of Here East; and


• Applicants who have previously completed any undergraduate study (at any UK university or elsewhere).

Additional terms and considerations

Continued support for the scholars will be subject to the scholarship recipients' continued academic success over the duration of their course of study. The decision as to whether the scholarship recipient is deemed to have made satisfactory progress on their university course of study will be at the sole discretion of Here East and the university. For the duration of the scholarship, the scholarship recipients will be required to submit progress reports when requested, which may include reports/feedback from their academic tutor or university.

Scholarship recipients may also be offered paid internship opportunities during the course of their university degree, but this does not constitute an offer of employment upon graduation, nor is there an obligation on the scholars to accept such an offer. Any Scholarship Winner found to have supplied incorrect or misleading information in their application at any time after the award will be liable to immediately repay any and all Scholarship awards.

Eligibility criteria

This fund is only available to people in the categories listed below. Please do not apply if you are not in one of these.