Winston Churchill Top-Up Bursary Fund

Many students qualify for the maximum £3,500 Cambridge Bursary per year as their annual family income is below £25,000.

The College also awards these students a Winston Churchill Top-Up Bursary because they are in the greatest financial need.

Double the number of Home undergraduate students qualified for a Winston Churchill Top-Up Bursary in 2022 compared with 2021 (from 15 to 29 students).

Churchill is proud of its tradition of having an unusually high number of undergraduates from very financially disadvantaged backgrounds. The top-up bursaries provide relief from the pressure of immediately having to find work in the holidays. In short, the additional sum takes considerable pressure off these students and gives them choices, academic and otherwise, such as unpaid summer internships.