Widening Participation Impact Pot Application Form

Title of Proposed Project:

One day festival of Geography for Year Nine students at the University of Leicester

Name of Project Leader: Dr Margaret Byron

Email Address of Project Leader:

Telephone Number of Project Leader: 0116 252 2821

Please return your completed application form to Will Cooling

at by 10am on Monday 17th November

When completing this application form please note that when deciding whether to fund your project, the Widening Participation Impact Pot Management Group will also consider the extent to which:

  1. The project will raise the profile of the University of Leicester amongst underrepresented groups
  2. The project will be an efficient use of resources

Additionally all projects funded by the Widening Participation Impact Pot will be centrally evaluated.As will be specified by the Widening Participation Impact Pot Management Group after funding has been awarded, project leaders will be required to provide access and information to facilitate this evaluation.

Please outline the aims and objectives of your project. Please note that these must meet at least one of the following criteria:

  1. Encourage progression to higher education from underrepresented groups
  2. Improve student retention and academic performance amongst students from underrepresented groups
  3. Improve progression amongst students from underrepresented groups to graduate employment or postgraduate education
  4. Inform the University of Leicester’s approach to widening participation through research

Please outline which demographic group(s) your project is aimed at and how you will ensure it effectively targets them. Please note that these must include at least one of the following groups:

  1. Living in a low participation neighbourhood (POLAR3 Quintiles 1 & 2)
  2. Coming from a lower socio-economic household (NS-SEC 4-8)
  3. Being the first in the family to come from higher education
  4. Self-defining as disabled
  5. Being a mature learner
  6. Those who have experienced educational disadvantage due to self-defining as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Trans
  7. Belonging to an underrepresented ethnic minority
  8. Belonging to an underrepresented gender

Please outline how your project will have a positive impact on the educational opportunities of people from the underrepresented group(s) you have targeted

Please describe the full project team (please specify if participation is linked to funding from the Widening Participation Impact Pot)

Please outline the staff members and/or volunteers that have agreed to participate on this project and any funding you have already secured from sources other than the Widening Participation Impact Po

Please outline the staff members and/or volunteers that have agreed to participate on this project and any funding you have already secured from sources other than the Widening Participation Impact Pot

Please outline the funding from the Widening Participation Impact Pot you are requesting and explain how this will be used to resource your project

If you have any questions about the Widening Participation Impact Pot or need any assistance with your application please contact Will Cooling () or Professor Emma Smith ().