In order to make sure that learning opportunities are accessible to those who need it most, workshops and courses are provided free of charge for those who can evidence they fall into one of the priority areas:

• Carers
• Care leavers
• Learners with a learning difficulty and or disability
• Mental health service users and adults with mild to moderate mental health problems
• Learners engaged through the Troubled Families programme
• Learners who are homeless, in sheltered living, or in danger of becoming homeless
• Learners who have a low income (earn less than £25,000 per annum), or are in receipt of one of the following state benefits:
  • Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) including those who receiving National Insurance credits only
  • Employment and support Allowance (ESA)
  • Universal Credit, and their take-home pay as recorded on their Universal Credit statement (disregarding Universal Credit payments and other benefits) is less than £494 a month where the learner is sole adult in their benefit claim, or £782 a month where the learner has a joint benefit claim with their partner.
• Learners with Refugee status
• An Asylum Seeker in receipt of the equivalent of an income-based state benefit
• Released on temporary licence, studying outside a prison environment, and not funded by the Ministry of Justice
• The unwaged dependent of an Asylum Seeker
• Learners yet to achieve their first full Level 2 qualification
• Learners yet to achieve a Level 2 in English and/or maths and/or IT
• An individual who is Economically Inactive because they are unable to claim income related state benefits