Leverhulme Scholarships
These major scholarships have been made possible by the Leverhulme Trust. Recipients will be incoming students on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses who demonstrate the potential for exceptional talent and also financial need.
Courses: Undergraduate and Postgraduate.
Eligibility: Home/ELQ/Overseas
Number of Awards: 6
Individual Award Value: £10,000 (£5,000 as tuition fee waiver and £5,000 direct to student for living costs)
Duration of Award: 1 year
Award per Year: £10,000
Application details:
Offer holders must be nominated to apply to this award. All eligible offer holders will be automatically considered for nomination when they are made an offer of admission. Nominees are put forth based on the strength of their application to Central, including the interview/audition component.
Please note the Leverhulme Major Scholarships has a separate application process from the main call from the normal Scholarship and Bursary Timeline listed on our main Scholarships page for offer holders.
If you have been nominated to go forward to the second stage of the Scholarship application, you will be emailed on 01 May 2024. Nominees will be sent an email with guidance notes a link to the online application form.
About The Leverhulme Trust
The Leverhulme Trust was established by the Will of William Hesketh Lever, the founder of Lever Brothers. Since 1925 the Trust has provided grants and scholarships for research and education. Today, it is one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK, distributing approximately £80m a year. For more information about the Trust, please visit https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk and follow them on Twitter @LeverhulmeTrust.
Central has received generous grants from the Leverhulme Trust to support its Research activities and also Applied Theatre students. Since the first grant in 2007, Leverhulme funding has enabled Central’s Applied Theatre students to learn through vital work study projects and to undertake key elements of their training via placements outside London.
The grant to Central for the period 2022 to 2025 continues to support opportunities for Applied Theatre students and will also enable Central to award six Major Scholarships and eight Final Year Scholarships.