CIPD Trust Bursary Fund

What it gives

partial fee support · full tuition waiver · application support

Partial or full CIPD Level 3 course fees + CIPD student membership fee; no fixed cash figure stated

Who it is for

recognised refugee status · other categories — see terms

Level of study: other programmes

The student finance condition

The student finance condition is not stated

The scheme page does not say whether applicants must be without access to student finance. Ask before applying — the answer decides whether the application is worth making.

How to apply

You need a place first: apply to the programme and wait for an offer. Scholarship applications are only considered from people who already hold one.

Applicant and their CIPD study centre jointly complete the short application form provided by the centre
The study centre submits the completed form to CIPD Trust (submit about one month before your course start date)
Applicant may be invited to an online interview via Microsoft Teams or Zoom
CIPD Trust's panel makes a funding decision, typically communicated 14–30 days after submission (decision is discretionary and final)

How they select

application form · interview · evidence of circumstances

There is an interview here. It is a conversation about your situation and your study plans, not a subject exam: nobody tests the school syllabus or tries to catch you out. You can answer calmly, in your own words.

Dates

Can you apply now · as of 6 September 2026

Rolling admissions

Where the date comes from: “No fixed deadline; rolling applications... year-round»

Deadline

No fixed deadline; rolling applications submitted via the learner's study centre, year-round

When applications open

No fixed deadline; rolling applications submitted via the study centre, roughly one month before the course start date

Ask before you apply

We do not fill in the gaps for the institution. Here is what its own page leaves unclear — these are normal questions, everyone asks them.

Ask the CIPD Trust whether people with recognised refugee status or humanitarian protection may apply, and whether having no access to government Student Finance is a condition of the bursary — the site does not say anywhere.
Is it essential that I have no access to student finance? If I already have refugee status, can I still apply?
What happens to the payments if I am granted refugee status mid-year?
Is the scholarship for one year or for the whole course?

Who to write to: Submitted via your CIPD study centre; no direct bursary-team email published on the page

If this scheme is not for you

See the full list of schemes — it has a filter for your status and for whether student finance is available to you.
Check whether you are entitled to student finance — if it is, a scholarship stops being the only road.
Foundation year and Access to HE — routes for people who only have a school certificate.
Education hub — where to start if you have not chosen a route yet.

About the institution

CIPD Trust is the charitable arm of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), funding CIPD Level 3 qualifications delivered through accredited study centres across the UK rather than through a single university campus. Eligibility on this page is framed around financial hardship and being under-represented in the HR profession; refugees/asylum seekers are not named explicitly, though the page 'encourages applications from candidates who bring diverse perspectives and who are under-represented.'

Source

Every fact on this page we opened and read on the institution's own site, rather than taking it from an aggregator. Checked on: 22 August 2026.

The scheme page on the institution's site →

Bursaries page itself doesn't list immigration-status eligibility (criterion is general financial hardship); other CIPD Trust pages separately mention refugees as a target group. Not a university/HE scheme.