GIVING TO NORTHUMBRIA

Higher Education Without Barriers

Scholarships, outreach programmes and enterprise support give our students the opportunity to explore their higher education ambitions to the limit, while hardship bursaries and well-being services offer a lifeline when challenges arise.

In January 2022, the University launched the Higher Education Without Barriers Fund. Through this Fund, we are providing a range of financial initiatives, mental health and wellbeing services and community-based outreach projects to enable students from all backgrounds to study and succeed at Northumbria.

Since launching, donations to the Higher Education Without Barriers Fund have reached almost £4m, helping to support over 2,500 students across the Northumbria University community.

With your help we can continue to build on this success and make a difference.

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“Receiving the PhD Studentship has been a great opportunity for me. Without it, it would have been very difficult for me financially to undertake a PhD and thanks to this support I have been able to gain new skills and experience in an area I am extremely passionate about”

Student recipient of the Lady Edwina Grosvenor Scholarship

“It was exciting to come back to Northumbria after almost three decades, and to meet with so many talented and entrepreneurially-focused students. Speaking with them about my own career and the lessons I have learnt by founding and building a business was a huge privilege”

Chris K. Jones, Entrepreneur and Northumbria University Graduate

"Receiving scholarship funding from Santander Universities has opened the door to so many opportunities for me. I could not be more thankful"

Debora Schiller, Santander Universities Scholarship Recipient

"I spent four happy years at Northumbria University. Almost 25 years on from my graduation, it has clearly gone from strength-to-strength. The opportunity to meet with and deliver a lecture to students was a great way to give back"

Charlie Hampton, Founding Director & Chief Operating Officer, Pembroke and Rye and Northumbria Graduate

“Funding a PhD studentship is my way of giving back and saying thank you, by helping someone who might not have had the opportunity otherwise. I like to think that through this I am inspiring others”

Lady Edwina Grosvenor, Philanthropist and Northumbria University Graduate