Supporting students in need
Sheffield scholarships and the Student Hardship Fund have an incredible impact on students who have experienced difficult times. Whether they’re from low-income households, have families of their own or are estranged from their parents, thank you for being there when they needed you most.
A life changing impact
We brought together some of our undergraduate scholarship recipients to find out how their scholarship is helping them.
Here’s what they had to say about what their scholarship means to them.
The scholarship has helped me afford the costs of transport and necessary supplies for university. Now I don’t have to work in order to just survive. Before I had to help my mum with day to day expenses and life while juggling a job and school. The scholarship has enabled me to come to university and give myself a chance, without this scholarship I wouldn’t have been able to make the academic achievements that I have."
BSc Psychology, 2022
- Over 900 students are studying at Sheffield with a scholarship
- 354 new scholarships were funded by donors this year
- Applications to our hardship fund are increasing year on year
- Last year your support helped provide 2,208 students with an emergency financial grant
This is a life changing scholarship. It has allowed me to put aside financial worries and focus on succeeding in my degree. I can prioritise my exams at the end of the year and I have the time to start to navigate my CV towards my career interest in obstetrics."
Ayoyemi Adeola Adekanle, Medicine 2022
Your support for scholarships is helping Salma fulfil her ambition to become a doctor serving the people of South Yorkshire.
Just what does a scholarship allow our students to do?
I have found the whole experience of providing the scholarships really positive and I look forward to following the students’ onward progress. Giving the scholarships has, in my view, given me as much as it has given the students."
Scholarship donor
Your donation will make a life-changing difference to a student who would otherwise struggle to afford the cost of university.
I'm indescribably grateful for the opportunity afforded to me by this scholarship. When I heard that I had been selected to receive it, I was unsurprisingly very excited, though not for the money itself, but for the extra time it represented for me to be able to devote to my subject, without needing to stress over how to pay the bills."
Oliver Bray