Manchester United Foundation Scholarship

The scholarship aims to support students who have faced extra challenges in their lives - such as being the main carer in a family, living with a disability or currently being in receipt of free school meals - with the tools and skills they need to help transform young lives through football.

To apply, you must:

hold a firm offer to study a new full-time BSc (Hons) Sport and Youth Leadership course
have a household income of £42,875 or less. We'll check this against your Student Finance application. Please contact us if you will not be applying to Student Finance for a maintenance loan
be a UK student (English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish) paying fees of £9,250, and have a UK Student Support Number
pay for your course yourself, including through a student loan or a payment from your parents. Your course fees must not be paid by a business, charity or other organisation

You will also need to satisfy one of these criteria:

be a First Generation student (from a family where neither your parent(s) or guardian(s) attended university and got an undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification in the UK or abroad)
have experience of local authority care
be a main carer for a family member or dependent
get disability benefits
get the Education Maintenance Allowance or free school meals
permanently live in an area of high deprivation and low participation in higher education. (You can check your postcode at the OfS postcode search. Priority will be for those in the lowest POLAR4 young participation quintile)
be irreconcilably estranged from your parents or not have communicated with them for at least a year before you intend to start your degree.

You can only apply for this scholarship if we've offered you a place at Manchester Met.