Applications

Applications for the Independent Travel Awards 2024 are now closed.

Travel Bursary Awards are for registered undergraduate students, post graduate taught and post graduate research students at the University of York. Funding is not available for projects that form part of your degree programme.

All awardees will be expected to submit a written report of their project within six weeks of completion.

This funding is not available for:

• Students selected to study abroad as part of their academic degree
• Students selected for any of the tuition fee waived Summer Schools
• Students selected for any of the International Study Centres 
• Participation in hazardous activities will not be funded. Details can be found on the University Travel Insurance webpages. 

Application information

• Travel awards help towards the cost of your programme, but are unlikely to cover all your expenses. A travel award will be in the region of £500 per participant for individual projects.
• You cannot receive funding from more than one of our bursary programmes (ie Travel Awards, International Study Centre bursaries and Summer School tuition fee waiver)
• Applications for projects directly forming part of the student’s academic work will not be accepted. This includes the International Study Centre, Summer Schools through Global Programmes, year abroad on Study Exchange or ISEP, a year in industry or placement year.
• Only individual students may apply. Applications from groups, teams, societies etc will not be accepted.
• Bursaries will be awarded from funds including: Santander, YuFund, the Nancy Richards Fund and the Beaumanoir-Hart Fund.
• With the exception of the Nancy Richards Bursary (which is open to women only), these bursaries are open to men and women, but final-year undergraduate students are excluded. Information on our donors is given in the tab above.
• Copies of the applicants final reports will be sent to the donors of the bursaries and extracts may be used by Global Programmes for marketing and promotional purposes.

For an idea of the type of projects we fund please read through some of the short reports submitted by last years successful recipients 2022 Travel Award reports (PDF , 1,115kb)

Help fund your experience on YuStart

If you need funds to boost overseas travel then consider using YuStart, York’s own crowdfunding platform. The site empowers you to fundraise for innovative projects and ideas and in addition gives you valuable project management and promotional experience.