Education Support Fund
The Education Support Fund is a discretionary source of financial help available to families of all students on roll at Tiffin Girls’.
Set up by the Support Tiffin Girls’ School Company (STGSC), the fund is allocated depending on need, demonstration of educational benefit and funds available. STGSC recognises some families might need financial support during their child’s education from time to time, and it aims to help those who have difficulties in paying for aspects of school life, specifically:
- Trips and visits for a whole year group (examples include the Year 7 Thames Young Mariners trip, Year 7 residential, Year 9 bronze Duke of Edinburgh award, various theatre trips)
- Uniform, shoes or PE kit
- Textbooks or additional items needed for lessons (e.g. calculator or ingredients for cookery classes)
- Exceptional travel expenses to/from school
Requests for financial support outside of these categories are considered at the discretion of the trustees. Payments from the fund are discretionary and the charity has no obligation to make them. Payments are a grant not a loan, and do not need to be repaid. There is limited funding available each academic year. The trustees will consider requests for specific items, trips or visits up to a maximum value of £500 per eligible student per academic year. There is no maximum number of applications that can be made each year and the minimum grant is £10.
Please note STGSC is not able to provide funding for the purchase of laptops or tablet devices. The school provides individual Chromebooks for all Year 7 pupil premium students and makes Chromebooks available on long term loan to sixth form bursary students during Years 12 and 13.
Who is eligible?
The trustees will consider requests for a grant from the Education Support Fund from the following groups of students who are:
- in receipt of free school meals or eligible for Pupil Premium or Service Premium funding
- in receipt of a sixth form bursary
- in families with an annual household income below £30,000
- registered with special educational needs or disabilities
- currently in care or who have previously been in care
- young carers
At the discretion of the trustees, any family who does not fall within these categories but considers themselves to be in financial need. Trustees reserve the right to ask for evidence should this be required.
How to apply to the Education Support Fund
Parents/carers (or students aged 18) should complete and submit the google form that parents can find on MCAS (My Child At School) and students over 18 can find via a link shared with them directly. Applications will be anonymised before being shared with the trustees for consideration. If approved by the trustees, the application will be passed to the finance team for processing. Decisions made by the trustees are final. The trustees may review and amend the arrangements relating to the Education Support Fund at any time. Any such amendments will be communicated to parents and Year 13 students.
Please email the Education Support Fund if you have any queries: [email protected]
