What is The Snowdon
The Snowdon Trust provides financial awards to disabled students to access further and higher education in the UK. Snowdon Trust breakdown barriers to education and employment facing disabled young people and adults, and where we cannot immediately break down the barriers we support, listen to, and increase opportunities for disabled individuals. We campaign for disability inclusion and equitable experiences throughout education and employment.
The Trust was established by the first Earl of Snowdon (1930–2017) in 1981 to provide grants to enable disabled students to access education on an equal footing. During his parliamentary career, Lord Snowdon led a cross-party working group on the integration of disabled people. Among seven key focus areas, the resulting report found that too many bright, capable but disabled individuals were being denied the opportunity to go on to post-school education. Identifying the critical link between post-16 qualifications, employment, and socioeconomic integration, and motivated by his own experience having contracted polio as a child, Snowdon launched the Snowdon Trust grants program to fund additional disability-related study costs that put disabled people at a disadvantage in the funding of their studies.
Benefits & Awards
£30,000 of non-repayable funds to the UK and internationally based disabled students applying for a master’s program at a UK institution.
Eligible criteria:
- Applying for a master’s program at a UK institution
- Hold a Bachelor's degree or equal qualification
- The master’s program commences in the academic year 2022/23
- Physical impairment
- Vision impairment/Blind
- Hearing impairment/Deaf
- Specific Learning Difficulty e.g. Dyslexia, Dyspraxia
- Learning or intellectual disability
- Neurodivergence
- The institution stated is outside the UK
- Any areas of the application are incomplete
- Applications are not written in English or recorded in British Sign Language
- The application is received after the stated deadline
- The person applying has previously received a Snowdon Master’s scholarship
- Language in the application is inappropriate and/or offensive
- The program applied for is not a master’s
- The person applying does not have a disability that falls within the parameters listed above
Deadline
Application
