National Student Money Week 2013

National Student Money Week was a great success this year with many of you coming to our specialist money workshops and dropping in for ‘Lunch money’ advice with a Student Adviser. It was great to meet you all.

If you missed out on our talks for European students on funding your next course, don’t worry we are happy to give you advice on this, so please contact a student adviser here.

Are you a parent thinking about doing a BA or FDA and you want to know what money is available to for you and your family, please get in touch with a Student Adviser in your college, don’t miss out on a penny!

SEE did some great talks on the SEED fund, Start-Up Loan and how to fund your business start up. They will be running more in the future have a browse and book-on workshops with SEE 

Planning to do a Postgraduate course in September 2013 don’t know how to fund it and missed our workshop, a Student Adviser can talk you through the options, or you can start your research here 

Please let us know if you have a great idea for next year’s National Student Money Week contact us here

Money 101

The basics

Student funding for 2013-14 What you can get and how to budget it.

Postgraduate money; get in the know about what’s out there and how it works after the Student Finance runs out. Watch our Postgraduate Funding video produced with our friends at Commonplace. Find out how to get ahead of the game to secure funding through grants and scholarships.

You may be eligible to apply for the Access to Learning Fund to help top up your income.

Master the art of student budgeting

Check out the Commonplace website for recipe ideas, budgeting advice and other useful insights from those in the know. Information and advice from current students on Getting By in London. Even better swap, look for and sell stuff for free in Swap Shop.

Get step by step help to budget your cash with this excellent budget planner from Credit Action. Or, if you’re feeling old school, print out this Budget Planner 2013

International students – find out how to open a bank account in the UK

Who can help?

Student Advisers can offer you advice about how to manage your money and plan for the future through one-to-one appointments and events on topics such as the following:

• Student loans and grants
• Benefits
• Living away from home
• Personal finance and money saving ideas
• Other sources of money
• Assistance from the university
• Tax
• Graduate finance
• Are you getting what you need?

For confidential and impartial advice make an appointment