Cashpoint – Student Fest 2021 – University Insiders

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Welcome to the Student Fest 2021 ‘Cashpoint’, with loads of useful top tips on student finance and budgeting at university and college. We’ve linked documents below for you to download and take away to refer back to in the future.

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College Financial Support

Managing your money is an important skill to have as you set off to college. Check out the useful links below for advice on your finances, and take a look at the PDF below which explains the 16-19 bursary scheme for students in England.

Financial support in Further Education from the Money Advice Service

Interactive financial support and advice, such as finding out your ‘money personality’, making it through the month and how to understand your payslip

THE 16-19 BURSARY: CLICK THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON TO VIEW THE FULL DOCUMENT

This is an image of the cover page for 'What is the Bursary?' PDF. There is a downloadable version below. — We have information you can download to take with you! Just hit download! These PDFs have loads of amazing info and go into more depth to give you great impartial guidance.

16-19 Bursary Download

University Financial Support

If you concerned about how you’re going to fund university, don’t worry! There’s lots of support available, including tuition fee loans, maintenance loans and additional sources of income. Check out the PDFs for more information on these. We’ve also got some handy tips on how to budget effectively, so that you can make the most of your money.

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THE TUITION FEE LOAN: CLICK THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON TO VIEW THE FULL DOCUMENT

This is an image of the cover page for 'Tuition Fee Loan guidance' PDF. There is a downloadable version below. — We have information you can download to take with you! Just hit download! These PDFs have loads of amazing info and go into more depth to give you great impartial guidance.

Tuition-Fee-Guidance Download

THE MAINTENANCE LOAN: CLICK THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON TO VIEW THE FULL DOCUMENT

This is an image of the cover page for 'Maintenance Loan guidance' PDF. There is a downloadable version below. — We have information you can download to take with you! Just hit download! These PDFs have loads of amazing info and go into more depth to give you great impartial guidance.

Maintenance-Loan-Guidance Download

Repaying Loans

This is an image of the cover page for 'Loan Repayment' PDF. There is a downloadable version below. — We have information you can download to take with you! Just hit download! These PDFs have loads of amazing info and go into more depth to give you great impartial guidance.

Loan-Repayment-Guidance Download

Budgeting

Budgeting is a great way to make your money last. One of the best ways to save money is to plan ahead with your food shopping. Check out Liv’s videos on the University Insiders channel, to see how she saved money by living off £20 for a week!

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Struggling to decide what to get when you go food shopping? The University Insiders YouTube Channel has lots of videos on making cheap and easy meals!

Don’t forget to click the ‘University Insiders’ icon in the bottom right-hand corner and subscribe to our YouTube channel!

Additional Sources of Income

CLICK THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON TO VIEW THE FULL DOCUMENT

This is an image of the cover page for 'Additional Income' PDF. There is a downloadable version below. — We have information you can download to take with you! Just hit download! These PDFs have loads of amazing info and go into more depth to give you great impartial guidance.

Additional-Income Download

We hope you enjoyed this zone! If you would like us to cover anything else, don’t forget to leave your suggestions below! We’d love to hear your top tips too, you can share them with each other in the comments.

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Since the success of Student Fest in 2020 we have launched another online event all about careers. The ‘Job Board’ zone was extremely helpful to lots of people so we wanted to create more content on this topic! We have essentially turned this zone into it’s very own event! If you’d like to visit ‘Careers Fayre’, another interactive event to explore at your own pace, click the link below! It’s a great place to go when thinking about your steps to your dream career.