Earn upto £3,500 for 30 minutes work!!! 'Access to Learning Fund'

Lady_K

They wont look at it that way though, you have funds available they only have so much to give they are going to give it to people that dont have any other way I'd imagine

preciousb

Hi can someone help me

am filling in the form to get the funding

basically what has happened is that my student loan use to go into my student account which was with Lloyds TSB. My overdraft on that account was £1500 but i went over my limit to around £2000. They since then have requested the full £2000 back but in £100 monthly installments and i cannot use the account or the card on the account. So i can prove this to the funding board to show them this.

But since then i have put my student loan into my HSBC account. So what statements do i need to show. However my hsbc account is not in a good state with a lot of betting on it. So what i did before was transfered £1400 of my student loan to my partner to help her with her accomodation.

What can i do to help my chances of getting the fund. DO i provide just the statement which shows my student loan going into my HSBC with the tsb statements. Or the full statements of three months for both accounts?

DrFluffy

You need to show all current accounts - statements for 3 months, and all credit card statements going back over one month.

If you don't and get caught out you could face action for fraud and university disciplinary action on top...

scrumymummy

Thanks robhammond as a result of seeing your thread I applied for the ALF last week and today was awarded £1000 to help towards child care & petrol getting to uni.
It means I can continue my course for the rest of this year without having to pay child care fees on credit cards! (well they're maxed anyway so not quite sure how I would have paid next month).
It also means I can stop stressing about money so much and actually concentrate on my research, assignments and exams.
Thanks again
SM

papeman

Just wanted to say thanks to the OP and all the other posters as I heard today that I have been awarded £1450 from my Uni's fund. Ta v much!

competitionscafe

ciano125 wrote:

I applied for this because myself and my girlfriend were in a bit of difficulty (I'm a mature student and we were paying the mortgage on her wage) but because I work one day a week they said I couldnt have anything. So I now have three credit cards and two overdrafts as well as my student loan. Access to Learning fund my !!!!.

I agree with the other poster who said people who didnt need it had applied and got money too, guess it just depends on how convincing a liar you are, I told the truth and got nothing even though I needed it.

Rant over, thanks!
Cian

Same thing happened to me when i was at uni - I really needed it as a mature student and parents living abroad I couldn't go home for summer and so had to pay for rent & food in summer, (and easter & xmas break). I was also honest - I worked part-time term time and full time during summer (but the summer money covered little more than rent & food for summer really, minimum wage factory job).

Anyway, I didn't get it, but I know of other people who were a little dishonest and got it - then went on nice holidays, drinking binges, bought a guitar or a mountain bike....

I think they need to tighten up the controls - seems a bit unfair to me. Although it's hard to prove someone is lying, why should people who work a day or night or 2 a week (because they have to) be penalised?

Sarahsaver

I did a part time Certificate in Psychology at the local uni and I got my course fees paid back to me as well as childcare and transport costs:)

jovichick123

Just filled in the form - handing it in tomorrow! Fingers crossed for positive outcome, creche are threatening to stop my son attending if I can't pay fees in next few weeks... I have about £250 to last til next loan payment in April :eek: very stressed out at the moment!

Thanks to OP for this post, would not have known about it otherwise, Uni don't seem to advertise it much (or if they do, I'm just not very observant!) Will let you know how I go on!

Thanks, Sarah x

~evanesco~

I'm doing my degree via OU, and for the last year I got £1150 towards courses. Since I'm not in a rush to complete it, I used some of my funding to do bridging courses through the summer. I also got £250 for allowances at the beginning of the academic year.

Evans. xox

StefanM

As far I was aware the ALF had to repaid, added on to the student loan payments after your course has finished. Isn't this the case?

I'm a student in receipt of DSA so I had a computer bought for me many years back (they vastly overpaid for a low spec model compared to what was available, despite the advice I gave them). I'm now taking on a part time job to help fund my learning and pay bills. I had to change university from Aberystwyth in Wales due to the severe lack of work availability there, which was making it impossible for me to study there. I was always put off filling in the forms even though I needed the money, just by the volume of crap you have to give them to prove you're in dire straits.

Has the process been simplified at all?