Community Bursaries

Thanks to generous support from Career Essentials Inc. and David Scrymgeour, St Cross is delighted to be able to award up to nine bursaries, worth £5,000 each, to current St Cross College students. Previous Community Bursary recipients may not re-apply.
 
To be eligible to apply for a St Cross College Community Bursary, you must be a current student at St Cross for the 2025-2026 academic year.
 
Bursaries will be awarded to highly engaged students based on their demonstrated achievements and commitment to supporting their own personal development, leadership skills, and entrepreneurial spirit. Successful applicants will have a track record of excelling in areas such as sport, community engagement, the performing arts, and leadership of university societies or local/national/international organisations. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate current excellence and commitment in one or more of the above areas.
 
In accordance with the donor’s wishes, priority will be given to those applicants working towards becoming leaders in one of the following fields: entrepreneurship, the environment, engineering and science. These awards are not intended to recognise academic achievement.
 
•    Two Bursaries will be awarded to two exceptional student athletes; 
•    Two Bursaries will be awarded to two students studying on a Master’s course at the Saïd Business School;
•    One Bursary will be awarded to a student studying in the area of the environment;
•    One Bursary will be awarded to a student studying in one of the areas of engineering, physical, mathematical, medical or life sciences;
•    One Bursary will be awarded to a student who is normally resident in Africa;
•    Two Bursaries will be awarded to two students studying on a course in any discipline.
 
These are one-off awards and are not renewable in subsequent years of study. Successful applicants will receive a one-off payment of £5,000 to help support them with the costs incurred by participating in and leading extra-curricular activity.
 
To apply for a St Cross College Community Bursary, please submit a copy of your CV and a letter of application (maximum one side of A4 including any weblinks to relevant personal achievements – newspaper articles and photos are also welcome in the form of a single collated file alongside your letter) outlining how you meet one or more of the criteria above with past achievements, current engagement and future plans, and indicating which category/categories you would like to be considered under to the Senior Tutor (Academic Affairs & Programmes) at joanna.ashbourn@stx.ox.ac.uk. Please also ask a named referee to send a reference supporting your application and commenting on your relevant achievements directly to the same email address.

All applications and references must be received by 5pm on Friday 13 February 2026.