Laptop Fund

When making your application, please ensure you answer all relevant questions on the application form.

The questions will cover:

Income

Please include all sources of income available to you for the current academic year. It's vital that you complete this section as accurately as possible.

You should enter the amount of overdraft that's available for you to use since the start of the academic year. You should total your overdraft amount available, received income and your expected income to give a total income for the academic year.

Expenditure

Please include your typical monthly expenditure for the academic year. We'll work out your annual expenditure based on your period of attendance.

Where you're living in any other form of shared accommodation, you should include only your personal contribution towards household bills.

We can only include priority debt repayments. This may NOT include loan or credit card repayments unless you have a special agreement (for example Step Change). We may include repeat prescriptions. 

Expenditure which is not considered essential, such as gym membership or excessive visits home, will be discounted.

Students using informal childcare may provide proof of the costs incurred but we cannot guarantee it can be considered.

Further information

This section is an opportunity for you to explain why you're experiencing financial difficulty.

You're advised to explain any unusual or exceptional costs appearing under your expenditure. If you're not undertaking any part-time work, you should also explain why.

Supporting documentation checklist

This section is intended to ensure that you've submitted all relevant supporting documentation with your application. Applications submitted without all the necessary supporting documentation will take longer to process.

Declaration

You need to sign and date your form to confirm that the information you've given is true and accurate. You should make a copy of your application for your own records.

Supporting documentation is required. The documentation required will vary depending on the circumstances of your case and must be supplied by email. Only use attachments; don't link to any documents.

Photos of supporting documentation are acceptable. In certain circumstances, you may be contacted separately and asked to supply relevant original documents.

All students must submit:

• Student Finance financial support notification for current academic year. This must show your student loan, tuition fee loan and any grants (if applicable).
• All bank, building society, savings or ISA account statements for the most recent month (at least). Statements must include all transactions, should include the balance at the start of term and be within five days of the date you sign your application form.
• Internet banking statements must show your accounts' details, name, all transactions and daily balances. Please send these in PDF format rather than spreadsheets. Write on the statements an explanation for all transactions over £100 using the “comment” feature of PDFs. Include accounts which you may no longer be using.
• Proof of accommodation costs, such as tenancy or your mortgage agreement. This should show your name and date, plus the amount and frequency of payments.
• Proof of income. You may not have evidence but you'll need to provide details of expected income from earnings as explained in section two, both amount and frequency. You may annotate bank statements or provide a copy of your payslip if you have one indicative of your income.
• If you're in receipt of Universal Credit then please send us your most recent two entitlement letters in full.
• Please provide details of any other expected income from family, friends or any other sources.

Other evidence that you may send us for consideration

Childcare costs                 

• Send us advance invoices for the current academic period or receipts showing the amount and period covered. Eligible students will be expected to apply for the childcare grant. Self-funding students who aren't eligible for the childcare grant may be expected to have sufficient income to cover these expenses. 

Priority debts

•  Send us your creditor agreed repayment plan, for example, Step Change. We may only consider these priority debt repayments.

Car costs (parents/PGCE only)

• Car insurance amount (detailing extra cover if applicable)
• Car tax amount proof
• Proof of MOT date if during the academic year.

Medicine

• Proof of prescription costs (you should consider an NHS prepayment certificate which may save you money if you have repeat prescriptions).

Other costs you want us to consider

• Please explain your reasons and provide evidence, but we may not be able to include them.