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

Guidance Notes
Application Form

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