Accumulate Scholarships – changing lives through education

The Accumulate Scholarships are a new initiative for our charity and have been set up to close education barriers and open up learning opportunities.

Everyone should be able to persue their education, study and be able to plan and prepare for a better future. Unfortunately, for the Accumulate participants that life choice is often not available. Funding, bad experiences at school, mental health and lack of family support all stand in the way of them being able to have the same choices as other people of their age, ability and aspirations.

Accumulate has overturned that barrier by fundraising and providing scholarships for Accumulate participants to be able to study on the Access to HE certificate in Art and Design courses at Ravensbourne University London and Morley College for Adult Education. They still need to apply to the course and be accepted, but through the Accumulate scholarship initiative, they get the financial support they need and something, which may have seemed unachievable, is now theirs.

Lisalouise Macgregor with her mother, after being awarded a scholarship to study at Ravensbourne University London. Lisa has now passed the Access course and is now studying on BA Photography.

The Accumulate scholarship changes lives, gives opportunities and helps people to start their creative career. So far Accumulate has funded 24 of it’s participants to be able to study on an Access course through our scholarship scheme and 12 of these have progression onto a degree. They have moved out of the hostel and into independent accommodation, are now regular students, with a sense of purpose and new friends and enjoying all that education has to offer.

If you would like to donate a scholarship and help a young, homeless person improve their lives through education or would like to find out more, then please email info@accumulate.org.uk.