Each year The Garage Trust offer a very limited number of education scholarships towards covering the costs of accredited course fees.
CRITERIA
To be eligible to apply for one of our two Barriers to Learning Scholarship you need to:
- Receive Universal Credit or other benefits, and earn wages of less than £338 a month, have earned income of less than £16,009 per year, consider yourself to be in financial hardship and have been unable to obtain financial help from other sources e.g. family
- Have overcome alternative significant barriers to learning e.g., be a young carer, have a disability, be a young parent, have an EHCP plan, be a care leaver, have English as a second language
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION PROCESS
Prior to making a Scholarship Application
Students must first use our online application form to apply for a place on an accredited course. Students are then invited for an interview.
If students are accepted onto their chosen course, they will receive an offer letter which will include an acceptance letter. The student must sign and send back the acceptance letter. Once this process has been completed, the student may apply for a scholarship.
APPLYING FOR A SCHOLARSHIP
Students can apply for a scholarship through our website via an online form (at the bottom of this page). The online form will be received in the Education mailbox.
The online scholarship application form will be cross-referenced by the Education Manager to ensure an offer of a place has already been made to the scholarship applicant and that their acceptance letter has been received.
If this is not the case, the Education Manager will make contact with the applicant, to discuss the application process which must be completed prior to us considering a scholarship request.
If the scholarship applicant has already been successful in the application process and meets the scholarship criteria, then the scholarship application form will be forwarded to the Executive Producer by the Education Manager.
The Executive Producer will invite the applicant to a Scholarship Panel Interview. The Executive Producer is responsible for organising the Scholarship Panel Interview, with the panel consisting of the CEO, the Executive Producer and a Trustee.
The panel meet once a year. The course application process must be completed, and the scholarship application made, before the panel meets.
The Scholarship Panel Interviews will take place in May 2026.
Please note: The panel will want to interview the learner applying for the scholarship, not the parents/guardians. However, parents/guardians are welcome to attend the interview if they wish.
Post Scholarship Panel Interview, the Executive Producer will inform the applicant of the outcome of the interview. If the applicant is unsuccessful, the Executive Producer will signpost towards additional sources of support and will inform the Education Manager of this correspondence. If the applicant is successful, the Executive Producer will additionally inform the Education Manager and the Business Manager of this outcome.