To mark the cinema's 30th anniversary in September 2024 Peckhamplex has established a bursary scheme to help young people from the local area supplement the funding of their university courses helping to cover their incidentals and living costs. The aim is to complement other sources of funding by reducing the amount of time students need to spend in paid employment during term time, to leave more time for study, for extra-curricular activity such as joining societies, sport and socialising, to purchase a laptop, additional books or materials or go on a field trip.

This scheme is intended to support young people in pursuing their career ambitions and their quality of life through higher education. In so doing the scheme will in its small way help to break down barriers to higher education and enable young people to realise their full potential in the world.

Two bursaries are to be awarded in September 2025 of £1000 each per annum, for a period of up to three years.

Applications will be assessed by a committee comprising Peckhamplex Directors (John Reiss, Simone Brown, Marianne Gray, Rakesh Makhecha) and two independent advisors - Maureen Salmon (Associate Dean, University of The Arts London), Freda Matassa (art collections management advisor/ trainer and graduate of Glasgow University).

Funds will be disbursed at the start of each academic term for three years provided the awardee is still doing the university course and attending regularly.

To be eligible to be considered for a Peckhamplex bursary, applicants must demonstrate that they:

• 1) are a UK citizen.
• 2) have lived in Southwark for at least the last 3 years.
• 3) have attended secondary school or sixth form college in Southwark.
• 4) have been offered a place at a UK University to undertake an undergraduate degree course.

Application Process

Applicants must complete and submit the online application with support documentation by the closing date of 30 May 2025.

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Submission of an application is taken to confirm that the applicant accepts the Terms and Conditions of the Scheme.

Eligible applications will be reviewed by the Committee and whittled down to a small number who will be invited to attend an interview.

Offers will be made to the preferred two and the offers will be conditional on the applicant taking up an offered university place.

There will be a contractual document between Peckhamplex and the successful applicants.

The process is intended to be fair, equitable and inclusive. It will however be confidential, and the decision will rest entirely with the Committee and will be final.

Peckhamplex Committee members will offer to provide personal and career guidance to awardees.