Widening Participation travel bursary

The travel bursary can be used to cover travel for:

• open days
• interviews
• applicant events
• widening participation activities
• offer holder events.

You are eligible to apply for the travel bursary if you meet the contextual admissions criteria stipulated for your prospective year of entry. 

Please note: We are currently only able to offer the travel bursary to students considering study on undergraduate courses at St George’s.

The process for which to claim a travel bursary is as follows:

1. Book onto the St George’s event/interview.

2. Submit a travel bursary application via this application form.

3. Wait to hear the outcome the travel bursary application. Reimbursement is not guaranteed until the application has been approved.

4. Book required travel tickets/plan the journey in advance of event/interview.

5. Complete the travel bursary claim form which will be emailed with the travel bursary applicational approval, and submit it to wp@sgul.ac.uk.

Travel bursaries will be processed after the event/interview in question; reimbursements may take up to 3 weeks to be received by the bank. In the event that you are unable to purchase tickets upfront, you can contact the Widening Participation team who may be able to purchase these on your behalf. 

Please note: The travel bursary is a finite amount of money. Therefore, once the threshold for reimbursement has been met for allocated events, we will be unable to provide reimbursement. To mitigate for this, we allocate certain amounts of the budget to events and activities across the year to allow us to support as many applicants as possible.

Any type of public transport, standard class travel only.

If you’re travelling by car, petrol costs can also be reimbursed. 

 Please note, travel by taxis is not included in the travel bursary.

We can pay 40p per mile, calculated from your place of residence to St George’s and back using Google Maps.

You don’t need to provide petrol costs or receipts.

The maximum amount you can claim for is £200.

Electronic receipts/booking confirmation emails detailing your journey booking and payment confirmation.

The cost of your travel tickets and details of the journey must be clearly indicated.

Bank or credit card statements are not acceptable forms of proof.

We will aim to get back to you within 5 working days with the outcome of your application.

In the first instance only the attendee’s travel will be paid.

However, if you need care or assistance to get to or at the event, or in other exceptional circumstances, we may be able to cover the travel costs of an additional attendee.

If this applies to you please contact us at wp@sgul.ac.uk.

In most instances, yes.

However, if it will be difficult for you to purchase tickets upfront please contact us at wp@sgul.ac.uk as we may be able to purchase them in advance for you. 

Yes, your travel claim must be submitted within 3 months of purchase – as we will not usually process your claim until after the event, please ensure that you do not book your travel more than 3 months in advance of the event.