Financial Support

The Oxford Assistance Fund (OAF) programme aims to assist students who are experiencing financial difficulty. Enrolled and suspended students with Home Fee Status who have a shortfall in their finances will be assessed by the Student Fees and Funding team and considered for a grant of up to £3,000. Applications are accepted from Monday of week 0 of Michaelmas until Friday of week 8 in Trinity Term and are assessed on a rolling basis.

For all other students: Students must be enrolled and experiencing unexpected and unforeseeable financial difficulties due to circumstances which could not have been predicted at the start of their course. Applications are assessed by the University Financial Assistance Committee at its termly meeting with non-repayable grants and/or loans of up to £8,000 available, according to individual circumstances. Successful awardees may be offered a loan in order to maximise use and impact of available funds. Applications including supporting documentation should be submitted by midday on Friday of week 2 of Michaelmas and Hilary term, and midday on Friday of week 1 of Trinity term.

If you would like to apply to the OAF, please contact the Welfare and Student Support Officer Officer at: welfare.officer@queens.ox.ac.uk for further details of how to apply.

The Student Support Bursary (SSB) aims to help UK undergraduates who have a shortfall in their finances or who need help meeting additional exceptional costs

A non-repayable bursary of between £50 and £750 is available. All first degree undergraduates ordinarily resident in the UK (usually students with Home fee status) who are currently enrolled are eligible to apply for the bursary.

Please contact the Welfare and Student Support Officer Officer at: welfare.officer@queens.ox.ac.uk for further details of how to apply.

The Care Experienced and Estranged Student Bursary (CEESB) is a non-repayable bursary of up to £3,500 per year that is available to UK undergraduates, Graduate-Entry Medicine students, and PGCE students to help towards financial shortfalls relating to your circumstances.

Using information available from student records, the University will contact those who are automatically eligible at the start of the academic year and invite them to apply for this funding via the Oxford Financial Assistance online application form.

If you believe you may be eligible to receive this support but have not been contacted by Week 2 of Michaelmas term, please contact the Student Fees and Funding team at bursaries@admin.ox.ac.uk to discuss your situation.

Please contact the Welfare and Student Support Officer Officer at: welfare.officer@queens.ox.ac.uk for further details

Queen’s offers Financial Assistance awards, which are available to all members of the JCR and MCR.

• Application form for postgraduate financial assistance
• Guidance for postgraduate applicants for financial assistance

• Application form for undergraduate financial assistance
• Guidance for undergraduate applicants for financial assistance

The College has received a new donation to establish funding for welfare-related costs for students in financial need. This donation will provide financial assistance to students who are seeking private counselling or a private medical diagnosis at the advice of their GP or other relevant clinician. It will also provide financial assistance to care-experienced and estranged UK undergraduates (and those seeking estranged student status) who require financial assistance to secure private accommodation.

These funds are available only to students who are currently in financial hardship or who would be put into financial hardship by incurring such welfare-related costs. Both enrolled and suspended students are eligible to apply.

Making an application: In addition to providing the relevant supporting evidence indicated below, applicants must submit a standard College Financial Assistance application form, demonstrating that they are either currently in financial hardship or that they would be put into financial hardship by incurring eligible welfare-related costs.

Students planning to make an application should first consult welfare.officer@queens.ox.ac.uk before submitting their application.

Academic support grants are available to assist you with costs associated with your study such as conference attendance, travel, and registration fees. We will typically award a maximum of £390 per year over the course of a degree.

Academic support grant application form

The Laming fund is intended to support costs related to study abroad that are not covered by other existing sources of funding (e.g. assistantship scheme, other paid work, other grants). Consistent with the deed of the Laming fund, linguistic immersion should always be the main goal.

Undergraduate students reading for Modern Languages, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, or Law (with Law Studies in Europe) can apply for support from the Laming fund via the College’s Academic Support Grant form. Since subject tutors must approve Academic Support Grant applications, students should discuss their plans with their tutor before submitting their form.

Students may apply for support from the Laming fund to study at a foreign university or on a dedicated language course; the fund can also cover travel to and participation in other opportunities of linguistic immersion overseas, e.g., a short trip outside the year abroad.

Students can apply for support from the Laming fund both during and before or after the year abroad, up to a maximum of £3000 during the course of their degree.

N.B. The Laming fund is not used to reimburse book purchases, or food costs while living abroad.

The Laming Committee invites applications for a final-year writing-up grant from DPhil students at Queen’s in a subject in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies or the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.

At the point of application, eligible students must
• be matriculated as a DPhil student in The Queen’s College;
• belong to either of the faculties related to ‘living foreign languages’ represented in the College, i.e. the Faculties of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Medieval and Modern Languages;
• have completed their confirmation of status;
• be in the third year of their DPhil.

The successful applicant will receive a final-year writing-up grant from the Laming Scholarship Trust of the value of £5,000, plus travel expenses if required.

All eligible students will be emailed in Trinity Term each year with the relevant application form.

The College’s Book & Equipment Grant scheme awards enrolled students up to 100% of the amount spent on books, electronic learning resources, and academic equipment up to £150, multiplied by the duration of the course in years.

Book Grant applications will be considered on a rolling basis throughout the academic year, but not during the Summer or Christmas vacations. All applications must be submitted within the academic year of purchase. The last applications for the academic year must be submitted by week 0 of the following academic year.

Book Grants may also be used towards the cost of electronic learning resources and academic equipment. All materials purchased must have relevance to your current academic course.

Book grant application form

To celebrate the College’s 650th Anniversary, Old Members of the College set up a Trust Fund to disburse awards to current members in the region of £150–£500 for a variety of cultural and sporting activities.
Applications are open at the start of the calendar year.

The Academic Theme Funding for 2026–27 is Memory

The College selects ‘academic themes’ for each academic year to serve as a shared intellectual focus to which everyone in College is invited to contribute. In addition to academic activities organized by Fellows, student groups and societies may apply to receive up to an additional £1,000 in support of their activities if they adopt the theme for the academic year. The College encourages student groups and societies to consider creative approaches to engage with the theme through their usual programmes of events or through new initiatives or events.

To be considered for the 2026–27 theme of ‘Memory’, please send expressions of interest (1–2 paragraphs, including an estimate of costs) by Friday of Michaelmas Term week 5 to academic.administrator@queens.ox.ac.uk. Expressions of interest will be considered in the week 6 meeting of the Academic Committee.

The College offers a partial reimbursement of course fees for Fast-Track courses at the Language Centre. This applies only to Fast-Track courses, and not to the General or Academic courses. In the case of Fast-Track courses, students are required to pay for the course upfront and present receipts afterwards, and will be reimbursed half the cost upon successful completion of the course. Further information can be found by visiting this link.

The Hawley Fund is intended to provide students with funding to pursue opportunities and experiences that may be directly or indirectly related to the recipient’s future career plans. The donor’s wish is to help students who display initiative and enterprise in going after opportunities that will lead to fulfilling and productive careers/lives. The hope is that recipients will use their award to seek out broadening experiences that may help them make good career decisions. These experiences may or may not be directly related to their field of study.

The Hawley Fund aims to fund one or two students per year at either 100% or 50% of the total expenditure. To apply, please send details of your proposed plans and the relevant costs to the Fellowship and Tutorial Administrator by email: college.office@queens.ox.ac.uk.

The deadline for applications is Wednesday of Week 5 in Trinity Term. Applications received by this date will be considered by the Student Finance Committee and the successful recipients notified by the end of week 7.

Organ Scholarships, each with a value of £300 per year are offered at the time of admission to ensure as far as possible that there are always two such award holders in residence at any one time.

Instrumental awards are offered after admission in the years that no organ award holder is admitted with a value of £300 per year for a Scholarship and £150 per year for an Exhibition.

Normally six Choral Scholarships (value £300 per year) are offered each year either at or after admission. All music awards are tenable for one academic year only. They are renewable subject to satisfactory performance, and, in the case of Choral Scholarships, subject to the rule that there shall be a maximum of 18 Choral Scholars at any time.

Applications for the sports subscription grant are processed once per year, and the deadline for submission is 12 noon on Wednesday of Week 5 in Trinity Term.

This Grant applies to membership subs only, and is not intended to cover the cost of kit or sports equipment.

University sports subscriptions application form

The Walter Pater grants are open to applications from both JCR and MCR members and are awarded by a committee of SCR members. The grants provide funding to foster engagement with the arts at Queen’s; they do not support University arts activities or individual activities. Supported events are normally expected to take place within Queen’s. It is expected that most grants will be not more than £500, but the case can be made for larger amounts up to £1,000.

Applications must be submitted by 12 noon on Wednesday of week 2.

Walter Pater grant application form

Students reading History and Joint Schools, Classics and Joint Schools, Egyptology, and Ancient and Near Eastern Studies may be eligible to receive an Historical Studies Scholarship. Eligibility is tied to eligibility for the Oxford Bursary and Crankstart Scholarship schemes: any eligible student in receipt of an Oxford Bursary or Crankstart Scholarship will automatically receive a Queen’s College Historical Studies Scholarship, which will be credited to their batells in termly instalments.

The amount of the Historical Studies Scholarship depends on annual household income and ranges from £540 to £1,080 per annum. There is no separate application process for the Queen’s College Historical Studies Scholarship. Eligible students will automatically be notified of their entitlement from mid- to late September.

Students in receipt of this grant must be undergraduate students at the College and have started their course in or after October 2019. On the first day of the academic year, they must have been assessed as Home fee status and have a home address both within the UK, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, or the Republic of Ireland and located 125 miles or more from the College (as defined by the long-distance calculator). Students must be resident in Oxford for the term to receive this grant.

Students who meet these criteria will receive a non-repayable grant of £125 per term (£375 per year), intended to cover travel costs to and from Oxford.

This scheme began in October 2019 and has been renewed until the end of the 2029–30 academic year.

An Oxford Travel Supplement is also be available to Crankstart Scholars and Oxford Bursary holders who are studying for their first undergraduate degree. Further details can be found at https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/fees-funding/ug-funding/oxford-support.

If eligible you will be notified of this additional funding shortly after being contacted about your bursary funding from Oxford.

Each year all new UK students at Oxford whose household income is assessed as £32,500 or less by the Student Loans Company (SLC) are selected to receive an annual bursary through the Crankstart Scholarship programme.

As a Crankstart Scholar you will have the opportunity to access tailored internship support from the Oxford Careers Service and to attend a range of formal and informal events for scholars. Scholars are also encouraged to volunteer, either through outreach work or within their local community.

For more information please visit the Crankstart Scholarship pages on the University website or contact the team at crankstartoxford@admin.ox.ac.uk.

The University operates the Oxford Bursaries scheme to offer grants and bursaries to UK students from lower income backgrounds. Bursaries vary depending on your family’s income. For more information, visit the Oxford Support page of the University website.