Ten Brighter Futures Grants worth £1,000 can be won to support you during your studies.

All students can enter including undergraduates, postgraduates, part-time and full-time students. You also do not need to be a Santander customer to enter.

Santander Universities is offering Brighter Futures Grants to support as many students as possible through their educational journey and help ease living costs.

The grants can be used to support your university experience, i.e. on learning resources, or can go towards the cost of accommodation or bills to help you out with living expenses.

How to apply

To be in with a chance of winning, you must register on the Santander Open Academy platform, and apply for the initiative. On the application form, you must select the relevant University name. 

Applications close on Friday 29 March 2024. You’ll be informed on the outcome of your application by Wednesday 17 April 2024.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, you must:

• Be enrolled as a current student in any year of your degree, or be starting your university degree this autumn
• Know your student ID number – you will be required to add it when you apply
• Create an account on the Santander Scholarship Platform (if you haven’t already registered)

Student Testimonials

Here is what some of our previous winners have said about having made the best of this opportunity.

“Applying for the Grant was an opportunity I entered into in the hope of gaining some additional support for my Architecture Part 2 Masters. I am completely thrilled to be winning this grant, and I would like to say a big thank you to Santander Better Futures.

During my course at Westminster I attended a lecture from the School of Architectures Drawing series, the lecture was led by Professional Illustrator, Doug John Smith, who showed his amazing work, a lot of which was produced on procreate for Ipad. Seeing his work really inspired me. I plan to use this grant to buy an ipad, to improve my digital illustrations and aid the final year of my course.”

A.W.

“I’m writing to thank you all at Santander for your generosity in awarding me the Santander Better Futures Grant. I am currently undertaking my Postgraduate RIBA Part 3 Diploma to gain my Architect accreditation, which will be my 6th year of studying. I can’t tell you how much this grant will help towards this. Thank you very much for the support, it is much appreciated.”

J.T.

To find out more about the Brighter Futures Grants, please visit the Santander website.