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Financial Support for School Leavers


Dependent on your circumstances, you may be eligible to apply for support if you are enrolling onto a course with North Lindsey College

If you are aged 16 to 18 (age taken as of 31 August 2025), you may be eligible for financial assistance towards the costs of your studies where you can evidence that you have a household income of less than £60,000pa (net income).

Applying online is quick and easy and you do not need to be enrolled to start your application.  Simply follow the ‘Guide to Applying’ and provide the requested evidence.  Please ensure you provide all the evidence requested as failure to do so will delay your application being processed.

When completing your online application, please remember the following.

  • You must have an up-to-date email address recorded on college records, without this, you will not receive your activation email.  Please check with us by emailing info@dncolleges.ac.uk. If you are unsure what email address is held on college records for you.
  • When entering your student ID number, only enter the digits not the ‘DC’ or the ‘DC00’ prefix.

If you have registered for financial assistance previously, you do not need to register again, you just need to login using your previous login details.  If you have forgotten your password for your login, click on the ‘Forgotten password’ link and follow the instructions

Apply Online

To apply for financial assistance online, please visit the following link:

Financial Assistance Application Link

Guide to applying 25-26

If you have any questions/queries regarding the Financial Assistance Application, please email financial.support@northlindsey.ac.uk.

 

 

 

Types of Support Available

Here’s a summary of some of the things you could be eligible for….

Please note: You need to be enrolled to be able to claim your financial assistance award so you will not be able to claim a refund or order any items until your first week at college.

Where students are aged under 20 on the start date of their programme and they require childcare support, this is provided through Care to Learn.

Students are encouraged to apply early for this support to ensure that support is received from the start date of the students study programme (Care to Learn will only pay childcare costs from the start date of a student’s programme where they apply within 28 days of their programme start date).

In addition to the above, applications must be made for each year that the student wishes to claim childcare support for.

Care to Learn is applied for online via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/care-to-learn

Students aged 16-18 (as of 31/08/2025)

If you live between 1 – 3 miles you may be eligible for support through Financial Assistance towards weekly mega-rider tickets

If you live more than 3 miles from college, we can help subsidise your travel.

  • Bus passes for North Lincolnshire residents cost £90 for the academic year or can be paid in three instalments of £30.
  • Bus passes for all other local areas outside of North Lincolnshire cost £400 for the academic year or can be paid in three instalments of £150 for term one and £125 for terms two and three*

*Returning students who were issued a bus pass in 2024/25 who live outside of North Lincolnshire will be charged £150 for the academic year or can be paid in three instalments of £50.

If you live over 3 miles, you can apply for a travel pass using the following links:

Travel Application – North Lincolnshire & other areas (excluding Lincolnshire)

Travel Application – Lincolnshire

These include; Market Rasen-Caistor-Nettleton-South Kelsey-North Kelsey-Howsham-Searby-Bigby-Lincoln-Hemswell Cliff-Hemswell-Gainsborough-Blyton-Laughton-Scotton-Scotter.

Support towards course costs such as equipment or consumables.

These items must be approved by your tutor.

Daily allowance uploaded on to your student card to use at the onsite food outlets.

One off payment towards stationery.

Contribution towards printing uploaded to your student account.

If you are aged between 16-18 on 31/08/2025 and:

  • you’re in or you recently left local authority care
  • you get Income Support or Universal Credit because you’re financially supporting yourself
  • you get Disability Living Allowance (DLA) in your name and either Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Universal Credit
  • you get Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in your name and either ESA or Universal Credit

then you may be eligible for the Vulnerable Bursary (VB) and could receive up to £1,200 over the academic year towards college participation costs.

 Please be aware that meeting these eligibility criteria does not guarantee an award, which depends on your individual financial needs.

If you are a student aged between 16 and 18 when you start your course, the tuition and exam fees are free.