Opportunities Fund

The Opportunities Fund is an award of up to £500 to help students who would otherwise be unable, for financial reasons, to access extracurricular professional development opportunities offered by the University or external organisations, including but not limited to: travel, unpaid internship stipends, conference or course attendance costs, smart clothing, etc.

OPPORTUNITIES FUND ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible, you must meet all the following criteria:

• You are a Home/UK student enrolled on a full-time undergraduate course at the University of Northampton for the 2025-26 academic year and paying tuition fees of £9,535. (This fund is not available to part-time students, International students or those studying a course at a partner institution.)
• You began studying your course with the University of Northampton from September 2025 (students who started their course with UON prior to September 2025 are not eligible to apply for this fund).
• You are studying level 5 (year 2) or level 6 (year 3) of your degree course.
• You also identify as one of our APP target groups experiencing barriers to equality of opportunity:
  • A student from an area of high-socio economic deprivation (IMD Q1/2)
  • GEM student – you may have heard of the term BAME, meaning Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic. We use GEM (Global Ethnic Majority) instead and include students with a mixed GEM heritage.
  • Male student
  • A student with a declared disability
  • A care leaver (previously named Looked After Child)
  • A student who has been assessed as estranged from their family