Overview
Is this fund for you?
If you are a Home / UK undergraduate in your first year of study, and you are either from a low-income household or your heritage is black or black-mixed, then you are eligible to apply.
What does it provide?
£2,000 a year for three years of undergraduate study. These funds are available through our Student Potential Fund and will also provide you with mentoring, networking, gym membership (1 year) and a guaranteed interview to be a student ambassador.
You can see full terms and conditions here.
How many scholarships are available?
This year there are four scholarships available to be awarded:
- Any undergraduate course
Three scholarships will be awarded to students studying any undergraduate course.
- Humanities undergraduate course
One scholarships will be awarded to a female / female identifying student studying a humanities undergraduate course. This scholarship is founded in memory of Caitlyn Owen.
When and how can I apply?
Applications for all Progression Scholarships have now closed.
Progression scholar
I think scholarships are really good because that extra help really goes a long way. It provides so much support. I think it really helps a student progress in all ways – mentally, emotionally, educationally. It helps them reach their full potential, if they have someone saying ‘I’m routing for you. I’m supporting you’. You don’t just get money, you also get mentoring and the opportunity to be an ambassador. If other students are thinking of applying to the scholarship, I would say just apply and give it a chance. I applied and I didn’t think I was going to get it and then I did.
Jade Adebiyi
Progression Scholarship, Biomedical Sciences BSc(Hons) graduate 2024
In memory of Caitlyn Owen
The Progression Scholarship for a humanities student is offered in memory of Caitlyn (Cat) Heather Owen, who succumbed to meningitis on the 9 December 2022 during her studies.
After a gap year, Caitlyn chose Brighton in which to read for a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Ethics. Developing her activism, she drafted the Socialist Student Society’s manifesto and worked tirelessly for the rights of women and other marginalised groups, becoming an ambassador for Just Like Us, a charity for young LGBTQ+ people. It was here that Caitlyn further developed her artistic side with Madilyn Hatter as her stage name.
Cat didn’t finish her degree, but we hope that this modest Scholarship helps someone else complete theirs and go on to stand up for marginalised people and in particular women in the way Cat would have had she survived.
Rob and Joanne Owen.