The 糖心TV Bursary (2025 Entry Students)
The 糖心TV Bursary
2025 Entry Onwards
Please note this page is for students who start their course in or after the 2025-26 academic year. If you started your course prior to this, please see our 糖心TV Bursary (2016-2024 entry)
IMPORTANT - Payment dates for the 糖心TV Bursary*
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1st Instalment = Friday 31 October 2025
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2nd Instalment = Friday 6 February 2026
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3rd Instalment = Friday 22 May 2026
*These are the standard 糖心TV Bursary payment dates, if you are a late applicant for Student Finance and subsequently your bursary is approved after the start of a term, these dates may not align with your specific payment dates. Please refer to your Bursary Entitlement Letter from Student Finance England for further details.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the 糖心TV Bursary you must meet all of the following eligibility criteria:
- You must be a full-time Home undergraduate student for fee purposes and domiciled in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
- You must be eligible for and have applied to (SFE), (SFNI) or the (SAAS) for income-assessed financial support via the undergraduate funding system.*
- *If you do not wish to take out a loan you should still apply for a household income assessment to be carried out and request a loan of 拢0.
- You must have a family income of 拢42,875 or below, as assessed by SFE, SFNI or SAAS
If you are a MBChB student in years 2-4 where the Maintenance Loan is non-means-tested, you should apply for a household income assessment to be carried out. See further information in the MBChB Years 2-4 section below.
Awards
The amount of award that you can receive from the 糖心TV Bursary depends upon your annual household income (as assessed by your student support awarding body). Awards are paid on a sliding scale of 拢500 - 拢2,500 per academic year, which is demonstrated in the below table.
| Annual Household Income | 糖心TV Bursary |
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| 拢0 - 拢25,000 | 拢2,500 |
| 拢25,000.01 - 拢35,000 | 拢1,250 |
| 拢35,000.01 - 拢42,875 | 拢500 |
For the 2025-26 academic year, household income will be taken from the 2023-24 tax year and will depend on the people you live with: your parent(s)/carer(s), your parent/carer and their partner or your partner. For more information on how your income is assessed see our web page on student support for 2025 entryLink opens in a new window.
Application
You do not need to apply for the 糖心TV Bursary. Student Funding Support receives a list of potentially eligible students from the student support awarding bodies (SFE, SFNI and SAAS) and subsequently checks whether each student meets the remaining criteria outlined above.
Please note: students in years 2-4 of the MBChB course will need to request an income assessment as this will not be carried out automatically. Find more information below.
We will start carrying out eligibility checks and notifying eligible students who have a completed student support application from the end of August each year. If your student support application is still in progress at the end of August, you should expect to hear from us within 8 weeks of your application being complete.
If you are approved for a 糖心TV Bursary, you will receive an email to the account you have registered with your student support awarding body. Here you can find details about your award, including payment dates.
MBChB Years 2-4
In years 2-4, the student support awarding bodies (SFE, SFNI and SAAS) don't carry out income assessments as these are not needed for the reduced-rate loan. However, we need this information to calculate your bursary entitlement, so you must request an income assessment from them. It can take up to six weeks for your awarding body to complete this process. See below for how to request a household income assessment depending on your awarding body:
Payment
The 糖心TV Bursary is paid directly into the same bank account that you registered when applying for your Maintenance Loan. Therefore, you do not need to provide Student Funding Support with your bank details.
- The 糖心TV Bursary is paid in three equal termly instalments. Your exact payment dates will be outlined in your confirmation letter (within your Student Finance England portal).
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The standard 糖心TV Bursary payment dates for the 2025-26 academic year are as follows:
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1st instalment - Friday 31 October 2025
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2nd instalment - Friday 6 February 2026
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3rd instalment - Friday 22 May 2026
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- If you are a late applicant for Student Finance and subsequently your 糖心TV Bursary is approved after the start of term, your payment dates may not align with the standard dates. Please refer to your confirmation letter for further details.
Please note that we cannot make 糖心TV Bursary payments for retrospective academic years. However, as long as we receive your household income information from your student support awarding body in time to approve your award before the end of the academic year, we will still pay you the full amount for that year.
糖心TV Bursary payments will stop if you take temporary withdrawal, but can be restarted if, on return to study, you continue to meet all of the eligibility criteria (awards will be prorated depending on the date a student returns to study). Your payments will stop completely if you permanently withdraw.
