NMITE Care Experienced Bursary

The Care Experienced Bursary is available to students who can provide confirmation of their care-experienced status from their local authority.

Someone who is care experienced will have lived in public care or as a looked-after child at any stage of their life up to the age of 18. Including if you:

• Are recognised by your Local Authority as a 'care leaver' or were in the past
• Were adopted from care or left care with a Special Guardianship Order before the age of 18
• Lived with foster carers or in a residential children's home
• Have been looked after under a supervision order; or
• Have lived with friends or relatives in formal kinship care under a Local Authority but are not currently recognised by your Local Authority as a care leaver in receipt of statutory support.

To be eligible, you must also:  

• have accepted a formal offer on one of NMITE’s undergraduate programmes (either as firm or insurance choice if applying through UCAS)
• enrol on your programme in September 2025
• be aged 25 years or under at the start of the course.  

Please email your expression of eligibility for the Care Experienced Bursary to bursaries@nmite.ac.uk by 5pm on 26th June 2026. Students are required to provide evidence of their care experienced status; this must be in the form of an original letter from your Local Authority outlining your care leaver status, or time living in care.  

The Bursary is worth £1000 per academic year of study (pro-rata), plus £1000 to help with start-up costs to a maximum of £4000 

Awards cannot be claimed retrospectively for previous academic years.  

The Bursary is paid in three instalments each academic year: normally September, January, and May.   

The funding will support one student through up to three years of study 

Students cannot receive more than one Care Leaver, Estranged student, and Refugee Bursary. If you meet the eligibility criteria for more than one of these Bursaries, then it will be at the discretion of the Financial Awards Committee which Bursary you receive.  

Full terms and conditions for each bursary are available at Financial Awards Terms and Conditions