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Residential Bursary Fund guide: 2024 to 2025

Information for institutions with 16 to 18 Residential Bursary Fund allocations for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

Applies to England

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Students, parents and carers should read get funding for college accommodation for information about eligibility and claiming funding.

This guide is for institutions with Residential Bursary Fund (RBF) allocations for the 2024 to 2025 academic year .

The guide sets out the funding rules for RBF and forms part of institutions’ Department for Education (DfE) funding agreements. Institutions must comply with the rules, within the context of the RBF policies they set, to manage the funds and must be able to show they comply with this guide at any audit.

Residential Bursary Fund data collection guidance

Read the guidance to find out how to access and complete the digital form to report the use of your RBF allocation provided by DfE in the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

Updates to this page

Published 27 March 2024
Last updated 1 October 2025 show all updates
  1. We have added guidance for providers on how to complete the digital form to confirm how they used their Residential Bursary Fund allocation for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

  2. First published.

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