CareersBU Interview Expenses Fund

Applicants must be UK Home students enrolled in the final year of a full-time undergraduate BU course and meet the following criteria: 

Household income of £25,000 or below (as calculated by Student Finance England/Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland) 

OR 

Household income over £25,000 (as calculated by Student Finance England/Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland) and one or more of the following: 

• Mature students - HESA benchmark 21 or over at start of course 
• Additional learning needs/disability 
• Care leaver 
• You live in an area of disadvantage* 
• Black Asian or Minority Ethnic 
• Female students taking STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) 

* You can check to see if you live in an area of disadvantage by searching for your postcode on this government website. Enter your postcode (i.e. where you applied to university from, not your term-time address), click 'get deprivation data', and download the spreadsheet shown. Check column F (Index of Multiple Deprivation Data). A postcode in IMD deciles 1,2,3, or 4 will mean you're eligible for this funding. 

Please note that if you are not eligible for this funding you may be eligible for other types of BU financial support.

General funding linked to interview expenses. In most cases we expect this to be for travel or clothing expenses. £50 is the award amount so in most cases this will be a contribution rather than covering your full costs. We don’t require you to have a specific job interview lined up – you could just be starting to apply for jobs.

In your application you will need to tell us what you plan to use the funding for and – after being awarded funding – we may ask to see receipts later in the academic year. Alternatively, you can apply for reimbursement for costs you have already incurred – in which case you should upload receipts as part of your application.

You can only apply once. Rather than covering your full expenses, this will in most cases be a contribution towards them. 

Apply via MyCareerHub