Grundy Educational Trust Awards 2025 entry

The Grundy Educational Trust (G.E.T.) was established in 1991 to postgraduate STEM students who need help to fund their maintenance costs. The G.E.T. offer awards to UK citizens or residents looking to take courses which lead to a career in STEM disciplines in industry, commerce or the professions or further education. The G.E.T. aims to support and advance education in STEM subjects by providing postgraduate awards and loans to students for research and higher education at institutions across the UK.

About

Every year the Grundy Educational Trust provide awards of between £1,200 and £4,800 towards the funding of postgraduate degrees in science and technology for postgraduate taught and postgraduate research students. The University of Surrey is one of six nominated institutions whose candidates will be considered for this financial support.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible for this award, you must:

Be a citizen or resident of the United Kingdom.
Have an offer to study a postgraduate MSc or MPhil/PhD STEM programme (sciences, technology, engineering, mathematics) in 2025/26. You can still apply if you have already started your postgraduate studies in a STEM subject.
Have a demonstrable financial need.

How to apply

Students should apply via the following link: University of Surrey Grundy Educational Trust Application 2025/6.

Please save a copy of your full application so that you can refer to it, should you be shortlisted and invited for an interview.

Please make sure you read the Grundy Educational Trust Terms and Conditions (PDF) which also contains the selection process and read the Privacy Policy (PDF).

If any student has any difficulty completing this application because of a disability, please contact the G.E.T. directly via admin@grundyeducationaltrust.org.uk so that they can identify and support with any reasonable adjustments.

If you are shortlisted for this award, you will be contacted by the Grundy Educational Trust directly and invited to attend an interview with the trustees. It is proposed that the Trustees will then interview selected candidates via MS Teams on Friday 27 June 2025.

Please note that applications to the Grundy Educational Trust Scholarship is competitive and not all applications will be successful. Only successful applicants will be contacted. If you have been shortlisted for this award you will be required to complete the following GDPR compliance Data Release Notice (docx).