{"id":4235,"date":"2025-10-29T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/doctoralresearcherdevelopmentprogramme\/?page_id=4235"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:28:46","slug":"living-expenses-and-cost-of-living-funds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/doctoralresearcherdevelopmentprogramme\/living-expenses-and-cost-of-living-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Living Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cost of Living Fund<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The University has reopened its scheme to help students facing additional costs due to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A \u00a3250 one-off grant (a grant does not need to be paid back) will be awarded to students who are struggling to pay their day to day expenses and accommodation costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scheme is open to fully enrolled UK and International undergraduate and postgraduate taught and research students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please read the guidance on the website by following the link below before submitting your application. Incomplete or missing evidence will delay your assessment and may result in your application being rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/current-students\/university-life\/student-finance\/cost-of-living-financial-support-from-the-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VISIT THE UNIVERSITY&#8217;S COST OF LIVING SUPPORT SCHEME PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cost of Living Fund The University has reopened its scheme to help students facing additional costs due to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. A \u00a3250 one-off grant (a grant does not need to be paid back) will be awarded to students&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":870,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/doctoralresearcherdevelopmentprogramme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/doctoralresearcherdevelopmentprogramme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/doctoralresearcherdevelopmentprogramme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/doctoralresearcherdevelopmentprogramme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/doctoralresearcherdevelopmentprogramme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/doctoralresearcherdevelopmentprogramme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4612,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/doctoralresearcherdevelopmentprogramme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4235\/revisions\/4612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/doctoralresearcherdevelopmentprogramme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}