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We offer a wide range of scholarships to reward, encourage and help you to fulfil your potential.

Scholarships can be awarded:

  • for outstanding performance ability, demonstrated at audition

  • for particular disciplines, including shortage instruments

  • to remove barriers to access for underrepresented or disadvantaged students

The majority of our scholarship awards are given in the form of a reduction in your tuition fees. We also offer some full tuition awards to especially gifted musicians.

A selection of the scholarships we offer is below. Every student who auditions at Trinity Laban will be considered for them automatically, with no specific application necessary.


Scholarships for Music

Trinity College London Scholarships – Prestigious scholarships for music students supported by Trinity College London, our sister organisation.

Loveday Scholarship – For postgraduate music students

Derek Butler Scholarship – For postgraduate music students

In order to be eligible, you must have undertaken your undergraduate studies in the UK. The Derek Butler Scholarship is not open to students who are progressing from postgraduate studies at another institution

Alfred and Therese Kitchin Scholarship – For undergraduate or postgraduate piano students

Kathleen Roberts Vocal Scholarship – For postgraduate vocal students

Violet Wright Scholarship – For undergraduate or postgraduate violin students

Archer Scholarship – For jazz instrumentalists

Gladys Bratton – For undergraduate or postgraduate music students

Alan Niekirk Scholarship – For postgraduate music students

GREAT Scholarship – For postgraduate music students from India, Malaysia or Turkey


Scholarships for Dance

Student Loans

Undergraduate Student Loans

You may be eligible for a student loan if you are a Home student.

You may also be entitled to apply for a maintenance loan or grant to help cover your living costs.

The government website provides information on eligibility and step-by-step advice on applying. Further details are included for those applying from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland towards the bottom of the page.


Postgraduate Master’s Loans

Postgraduate Master’s Loans are available for those from England starting a Master’s degree to help with course fees and living costs. For further information on the Postgraduate Master’s loans, and for applicants from Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, further details are available from the government website.

US Federal Loans

If you are a US student enrolling on eligible programmes, visit our page on US Student Loans for more information.

External Funding

We’ve also put together information and advice on external funding opportunities to plan your finances.


Bursaries for Summer Schools

Thanks to the generous support of Evangeline Dobson Douglas’s family and Victoria Worsfold Griffiths’s family Trinity Laban is able to offer bursaries to cover the full cost of Dance Summer School and How Movement Works in 2025. 

Evie Dee Inspiring Life Award 

  • Three bursaries covering the full cost of dance Summer School

Victoria Worsfold Griffiths Bursary

  • One bursary covering the full cost of Dance Summer School
  • One bursary covering the full cost of How Movement Works

The bursaries cannot be used for accommodation or travel costs.

Bursary application criteria

Trinity Laban can award the bursaries to dance teachers or practicing artists to attend Dance Summer School.

The successful applicants for the bursary places will, in the opinion of the awarding panel, meet the following criteria:

  • be a practicing artist or working / training as a dance teacher in UK schools, youth or community settings
  • demonstrate an interest in and commitment to contemporary dance practice
  • provide a statement of financial need
  • provide a strong and coherent rationale as to how attendance at the Trinity Laban Dance Summer School would further their professional development.

To Apply

Please email your CV, and a cover letter which addresses how you meet the bursary criteria to dancesummerschool@trinitylaban.ac.uk

Please ensure you include ‘DSS / HMW Bursary 2025’ in the subject line of your email.

Deadline: 12.00pm on Friday 30 May 2025.

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered. All applicants will be notified whether or not they have been awarded a bursary by Monday 16 June 2025.

The decision of the awarding panel is final. Due to the number of applications we receive Trinity Laban is unable to provide individual feedback on bursary applications.

Successful applicants

The successful applicants will be required to provide a short report by 1 September following completion of the intensive, explaining how attendance at Dance Summer School has supported their professional development.

Successful applicants of the bursaries will also attend a lunch with the benefactor of the bursaries during the Summer School course.


External funding

There are a number of external organisations which help support young artists. You apply to these organisations yourself, rather than through Trinity Laban. You can find a full list of organisations, trusts and foundations in our External Funding information.

We also offer a Fulbright Scholarship: the Fulbright Trinity Laban Award in Music & Dance, which gives US citizens the chance to pursue a one-year Master’s degree (or the first year of a longer Master’s or PhD degree program) in London.