Financial Assistance

Trinity Access Programmes gratefully acknowledges the invaluable financial support received for this initiative from the European Social Fund and a range of individual and corporate donors. There are six separate types of financial assistance which TAP students may be eligible for:  

• TAP ESF Student Assistance Fund (ESF/SAF) 
• TAP Student Scholarship Fund - for incoming Junior Fresh students only 
• 1916 Bursary - Only incoming Junior Fresh students will be eligible in 26/27
• University of Sanctuary Scholarship 
• Laidlaw Trailblazers Scholarship 
• Financial supports for Traveller and Roma students

Trinity Access Programme students are those students who are currently enrolled in undergraduate courses and who have entered Trinity through one of the following alternative admissions routes:  

• Foundation Course for Higher Education (Young Adults and Mature Students) 
• University Access Course in Liberal Arts, City of Dublin ETB & Trinity Access - Pearse, Plunket, Liberties and Rathmines Colleges of Further Education 
• Higher Education Access Route (HEAR) 

For further information, please contact tapundergraduates@tcd.ie  

The Student Assistance Fund is managed by the Higher Education Authority on behalf of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (ESF+ 2021-2027)