The Kensington Community Bursary Project
assists Kensington residents into Higher Education and provides
them with the opportunity to give something back through voluntary
community work in the Kensington New Deal for Communities area.
The scheme is intended to increase the number of local residents
participating in Higher Education.
The Project pays a bursary of £1250 per annum to Kensington
New Deal for Community residents who enter Higher Education to study
full-time first degrees, in return for 40 hours of voluntary work per annum in the community.
To be eligible applicants must meet the following criteria;
They must be full time students studying a first time degree
at an Institution of Higher Education
They or their families must have been resident in the Kensington
New Deal for Communities area for at least 2 years before entering
Higher Education
They must be prepared to undertake 40 hours per annum voluntary
community work for the benefit of the Kensington NDC area
The scheme has been relaunched for its fifth
year, the academic year 2007/08. To date, bursaries have been offered to over 115 students.
An independent Evaluation Study of the project for in both October 2004 and March 2006 concluded that the Bursary was effectively
targeted, well managed and popular.
