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At Godolphin, scholarships are awarded to students based on their musical or artistic talent and means-tested bursaries are awarded based on financial need. For both, students must have been successful in the academic entrance assessments.

No, definitely not. They are assessed in the same way as everybody else.

Around ten girls in each year receive fee assistance, the majority with fully-funded places.
Our aim is to offer more means-tested bursaries.

You need to follow these steps:

1. Indicate on the Examination Entry Form (issued after registration) if you wish to be considered for a bursary and send it back to us.
2. A Bursary Application Form will be sent to you within seven days of us receiving your Examination Entry Form.
3. Fill in the Bursary Application Form and send it back to us with all the supporting documentation. It will take approximately two weeks to assemble the documents you need so please allow enough time. The deadlines can be found on our 11+ and 16+ entry pages. Unfortunately we are unable to process application forms which are not returned by the deadline, or are incomplete or lacking full documentary evidence.
4. Within seven days of us receiving your form you should receive acknowledgement that your application has been submitted and will be considered. Please contact the Bursar’s Office if your application has not been acknowledged within seven days of submission.

In cases of particular need we may be able to waive the Registration Fee; please contact the Registrar.

The information on the Bursary Application Form – which will request details of household income and realisable assets – enables us to assess the likely level of support which will be required, subject to available funding. We normally invite parents for a meeting at the school to talk through the application to ensure the information has been correctly interpreted and that the basis of the financial assessment has been fair. The value of the bursary award is not influenced by the academic ability of the girl but by how much fee support is required.

100% bursary awarded to a family on low income, living in rented accommodation.
100% bursary awarded to a single-parent family where the mother works part-time. The family have had to move in with their extended family in order to stay in London.
50% bursary awarded to a family where the father is self-employed, mother works part-time and they have two daughters at the school. They own their own home but have little equity.
30% bursary awarded to a single parent family who was recently made redundant. Living in rented accommodation and has some savings (redundancy payment) which are being used to pay the balance of the fees.

When parents are offered a place at the school they will, at the same time, be advised on the status of their bursary application and whether the school can provide financial assistance. A bursary awarded on entry is, under normal circumstances, guaranteed for the duration of a girl’s education at Godolphin and Latymer, but parents are required to re-apply for assistance each academic year.

Temporary financial assistance may be available when parents (or the fee payer) of girls already in the school suffer unexpected financial hardship. Such awards are made for short-term assistance only; usually for no longer than one academic year. The Governors allocate a budget for hardship bursaries each year and therefore, such awards are subject to the availability of funding and cannot be guaranteed. The conditions of application and award are the same as for Bursaries on entry.