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Make It Happen Fund
What is available: 25 awards of £1,500 each
Who can apply: Alumni from 2024 & 2025 and those due to graduate in 2026
The Make It Happen Fund gives our most recent graduates access to a competitive pot of seed funding to support their career goals, enterprising ambitions, and creative development.
The fund is currently open. The deadline to apply is Friday 24 July at 5pm!
The Make It Happen Fund can be used towards:
- Training and learning
- Trying out new ideas
- Starting creative projects or businesses
- Running events or performances
- Meeting people in your industry
- Working with others
Online Information Session:
Wednesday 10 June, 12:30-13:30 via Teams
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In-person Application Writing Session:
Thursday 25 June, 12:00-14:00 at Clockwise Room 6.03
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Application Deadline:
Friday 24 July at 17:00!
BSL versions of the Funding Guidelines and Assessment Criteria are available here
If you would like to submit an application by video in BSL, please email Stephanie at cedo@rcs.ac.uk
The application form includes questions and a time limit for each video.
To apply you must:
- Have graduated from RCS in 2024, 2025 or due to graduate in 2026
- Live in the UK and be able to provide proof of your visa if required (i.e. if you are on a graduate visa)
You must not:
- Be on a student visa
- Have received the Make It Happen Fund before
Student Ideas Fund
What is available: Up to two £1,000 prizes per month during term time
Who can apply: All current students (undergraduate & postgraduate)
The Student Ideas Fund supports RCS students to develop new ideas outside of their coursework. It helps you:
- Explore creative ideas
- Make or test your own work
- Develop career or business ideas
- Take early steps toward a creative enterprise or project
Ideas can be big or small, artistic, social, community-based, or career-focused. The important thing is that you are learning something new, trying something different, or developing skills and your portfolio.
CEDOxConverge Ideas Fund
What is available: Up to 5 awards of £1,000 each
Who can apply: All current students (undergraduate & postgraduate)
The CEDOxConverge Ideas Fund is a one-off funding opportunity for RCS students to explore an early creative idea with the potential to grow into a future creative company or charity.
Designed for experimentation, the fund supports first steps such as testing ideas, prototyping creative work, running pop-up events, or sharing work-in-progress. You don’t need business experience, a registered company, or a fully formed proposal — just curiosity, willingness to learn, and an idea you want to explore.
Up to five awards of £1,000 are available, alongside wraparound mentoring and support from the Creative Enterprise Development Office (CEDO) and the Converge team, including guidance on next steps and future funding.
Open to current RCS undergraduate and postgraduate students leading a project or a company/charity that is pre-registration or in its first six months of trading.
This fund is now closed for 2026.
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