Advice for help to claiming reduced fees at college?

KizzyK_2

I work part time, self employed and I was hoping to be able to study part time at college (not Uni) next year but there’s no way I can afford £800 to do it.
In the back of the college course guide there’s a list of benefits and acceptable proof that would let me claim the reduced fees (to save me typing it all out see here for what I mean)
The only one that I could see applying to me would be the TC602 award notice but as I can’t claim working tax credit i'm not sure how

I've just sent off for my exception from class 2 contributions form. If I had this and showed it to them, would it be acceptable (you have to earn less than £4,345 for the exception)?

If anyone has got any experience of the same thing I would appreciate advice

olgadapolga

Have you asked the college you'd like to study at if they have a hardship fund and if so, whether or not you'd be eligible to apply?

CIS

From my experience, they will only take one of the listed benefits as exemption or else you need to claim a low income remissio.

Have you tried the Open University ?, they give course remission on a tapered basis on incomes up to around £20K, very good tuition as well.
http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/about/p6_1.shtml

The course fee remission on income is standard across all colleges.

Spendless

Is it a particular course you're interested in? I've recently gone back to college and have found a heavily subsidised available to all course. What about taking to the college to see if they have anything similar to what you'd like to do but at a lower cost.