Your Impact
1st Aug 2024 to 31st July 2025
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Figures include all new funds committed (including Gift Aid) from 01 August 2024 to 31 July 2025.
“The day I received the scholarship was very uplifting. It’s not just the funding that has helped me; it felt like a reset of my perspective on life and made me realise that there is hope.”
Shanzay, Royal Bank of Scotland Access Bursary Scholar
of those who considered dropping out said the Access Bursary helped them to stay*
Receiving an Access Bursary helped students to complete their degrees to a higher level**
said their Access Bursary helped them focus on their studies
said the Access Bursary helped alleviate an immediate financial challenge
* Figures based on sample size of 99 Access Bursary recipients (sent to 256 recipients across all years).
** Based on data from Heriot-Watt’s Scottish campuses in the academic years 2018–2019 to 2021–2022. Among students from the two most deprived quintiles identified in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), 84% of bursary recipients progressed to a higher stage compared to 75% of those without bursaries.
