Apply to the Stirling Fund

Every year the Stirling Fund supports a variety of projects that enhance employability, embrace diversity and inclusion, and promote global citizenship among staff and students, making Stirling an even better place to live and study.

To be awarded funding, projects must demonstrate that they will enhance the student experience across the wider student community, benefitting current and future generations of students.

The Stirling Fund applications

Applications for the Stirling Fund are currently closed. Please check back in September 2024.

Criteria for projects

To be awarded funding, projects must demonstrate that they will enhance the student experience across the wider student community, benefitting current and future generations of students and making Stirling an even better place to live and study.

The panel will consider supporting initiatives in the following areas:

  • Projects that will benefit Stirling as a whole and the wider community, or which promote the reputation of Stirling to the benefit of all, or that enhance the student experience.
  • The provision of equipment (which benefits multiple students).
  • Student-led extra-curricular academic activities or projects.
  • Club or society projects that will enhance the experience of students.
  • Projects which require an initial outlay, provided that any recurrent costs can be met by the Faculty/Department concerned.

The panel will not consider:

  • Projects that commit the panel to recurrent funding.
  • Applications from individuals for scholarship, tuition fees, bursaries or prizes, or trips abroad that benefit only one student.
  • Items of regular equipment such as general office furnishings, etc.
  • Equipment or initiatives that only benefit one student.
  • Catering, staff and/or capital or building costs.

Conditions of receiving funding

Successful applicants must:

  • Provide a clear and structured breakdown of the budget required.
  • Be on a course in the current academic year to receive funds and to spend the funds before you cease to be a student (student applicants only).
  • Acknowledge the award on social media such as tweeting @StirAlumni #StirlingFund with information and updates about your project, and by promoting the project with the Stirling Fund icons which will be sent to successful recipients.
  • Provide written feedback (a written report with a minimum of three high-quality images and quotations) on the success of the project and how the award has assisted you by the date agreed as part of your acceptance of the award. Please send this to alumni@stir.ac.uk. These reports and any other materials will be used in future publicity of the Stirling Fund and for reporting back to the donors.
  • Ensure that expenditure, or finalised expenditure plans, must take place within 12 months, or the awards panel may decide not to transfer the funds if this has not been agreed in advance. This timeframe is to ensure that we have enough funding available for future applications made to the Fund.

Projects that exceed an amount of £1,000, may be asked to attend a short interview to discuss the project goals.

Help with your application

For guidance we have a couple of examples of successful application forms submitted to the Stirling Fund:

If you need help with your application, email us at alumni@stir.ac.uk.

Contact Advancement