Applications are made through our online form, which will be available here once the 2025/26 Student Support Fund opens for applications on Monday 3 November 2025.
For us to assess your SSF application, you will need to upload bank statements for every account that you hold as part of the application. For example: current accounts, savings accounts, international accounts, etc. You will be asked to upload bank statements which cover the last three months and a statement covering the date on which you started your programme of study, which for most students will be September. It’s really important that this statement includes your start date, so if your monthly statements don’t cover the whole month you may need to upload two. It’s always better to provide us with more information.
To reduce delays in your assessment, it's really important that you annotate your bank statements with what obscure transactions were for and who any money paid into the account was from. You don't need to annotate every transaction but it is particularly important to annotate transactions between your own accounts, transfers from family members and wages.
We have provided an example bank statement demonstrating how you should annotate your statements. If you are unable to add comments to your statements directly, you can use our template for explaining your transactions. Please note that you will need to provide this alongside the statements. Please make it clear which statement the notes relate to. Annotating your bank statements properly will reduce the amount of time it will take to process your application.
Please watch our video guide below for more information: