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 five 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 25/26 
• University of Sanctuary Scholarship 
• Laidlaw Trailblazers Scholarship 

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)