Residential Support Fund
The Residential Support Fund (RSF) is a means tested allowance designed to help students access education that is not available within reasonable daily travel of their home.
What is a reasonable daily travelling distance?
This is defined as:
A daily return journey which takes under 2 hours; or
A distance of under 15 miles from your home to the college.
Who can apply for assistance?
- Students aged 16 or over on a full-time YPLA/SFA Learner responsive funded course of further education.
- Home students i.e. you should have been ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK and Islands for three years before your course began.
- You course is not available locally (within reasonable daily travelling distance)
- the course must involve at least 15 hours attendance at college per week and lasts for at least 10 weeks
- you will be living in term-time lodgings that are no further than 15 miles from the campus
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