What is the 16-19 Bursary?

The 16-19 Bursary Fund is a scheme to help students facing financial hardship stay in full time education.

If you have been entitled to free school meals, or your household receives income support, you can access financial support with the cost of travel, equipment and trips. The Bursary Fund can also support students whose financial situation has changed, for example in the case of redundancy or ill health. It is not a compulsory fund and money will therefore be awarded on a discretionary basis using the Sixth Form College criteria.

How the tuition fund will be used at Coombeshead Sixth Form College

• Payments could be made to individual curriculum departments to cover particular course costs (e.g. sports kit)
• The purchase of essential equipment for the duration of the course (e.g. text books, which are essential for the student to access the course)
• Travel costs may be considered upon application, such as a contribution towards bus/train fares and fuel. Fuel will not be paid as mileage, receipts must be provided for consideration.
• To contribute to and support additional costs related to study programmes (e.g. towards the cost of excursions, materials, visits to University Open Days). Students will be required to provide receipts and complete a Bursary additional claim form. Reimbursement will be proportional, not in full.
• Attendance is monitored regularly. In order to avoid any freeze on payments, students are expected to attend 95% or higher of their timetable. Lower attendance will jeopardise payments.
• Satisfactory attendance is understood as meaning that no absence is unauthorised. A warning will be given and then a payment withheld in the event of unauthorised absence.

Discretionary bursary is never a guaranteed payment. All applications are considered and jointly approved by the sixth form team.

Application forms are available from the Sixth Form office. Please click here for more information.