Published: 04 Jun 2025 107 views
The Open University’s Care Experienced Scholarship, in conjunction with The John Lewis Partnership launched for the first time in the 2023/2024?academic year, offering four undergraduate scholarships. In the 2025/26 academic year, we’re offering ten further undergraduate scholarships to care-experienced young people aged 30 and under.
A scholarship covers OU undergraduate credit-bearing qualifications, paying for the full tuition cost of your qualification, up to 120 credits each seasonal academic year and 360 credits in total.
To be eligible, you’ll need to meet all the following criteria:
The Open University will email you by 13 August 2025 to confirm if you’re successful.
You will need to provide evidence of your care experience. This could be a letter from your Local Authority confirming your care leaver status or a letter from a GP, social worker, care experienced support service or other professional person from the local authority in which you were looked after. You’ll also need to provide evidence of your personal income or qualifying benefit.
You’ll need to download the full scholarship terms and conditions and the scholarship application form to apply.
Once completed, please email your application form and supporting evidence to the Student Fees team. You’ll find their contact details on the first page of the application form.
For more details, visit The Open University scholarship webpage.
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