{"id":5657,"date":"2019-09-30T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2020-01-14T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T10:11:52","slug":"the-work-experience-fund-2019-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/the-work-experience-fund-2019-20\/","title":{"rendered":"The Work Experience Fund 2019\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Careers and Enterprise <\/strong>are pleased to announce that the <strong>Work Experience Fund for 2019\/20 is now available<\/strong>, and information, application form, T&amp;Cs and FAQs are live on our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"webpages.  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/students\/current-students\/careers-and-volunteering\/careers-and-jobs\/Work-Experience-Fund.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">webpages.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/students\/current-students\/careers-and-volunteering\/careers-and-jobs\/Work-Experience-Fund.aspx\">Apply to the Work Experience Fund now by clicking here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you looking for work experience, but finding it financially difficult to take up the opportunity you really want or looking to test out a business idea? <strong>You may be eligible to benefit from the Work Experience Fund!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your work experience is in an <strong>unpaid<\/strong> or <strong>low paid<\/strong> role, or has additional costs associated with taking up the opportunity, which would make it difficult for you to take the opportunity without financial assistance, we have <strong>two bursaries available<\/strong> to help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Travel Bursary<\/strong> &#8211; for assistance with travel costs (individual applications only).<\/li><li><strong>Career Start Bursary<\/strong> \u2013 for all other costs associated with the work experience including: <ul><li>potential money to test a business idea<\/li><li>costs for buying suitable work wear<\/li><li>ad hoc child care<\/li><li>specialist software <\/li><li>money to attend a conference etc.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Full details of what the bursaries can be used for can be found in the WEF Terms &amp; Conditions and FAQs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <strong>As this is a limited fund, applicants will be considered on a first come, first served basis, so we advise any students who may be considering work-related experience this academic year to get those applications in ASAP, in order to apply for the fund. The fund will close on 31st July 2019 at 5pm UK Time.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If you require any help with your application, you can visit&nbsp;The Careers and Enterprise Hub<strong> in Augustine House, open Monday-Friday, 10-12pm and 2-4pm<\/strong>, or <strong>book an appointment<\/strong> with a Careers Consultant via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/careersandenterprise\">The Careers and Enterprise Online Hub.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information and to apply, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/students\/current-students\/careers-and-volunteering\/careers-and-jobs\/Work-Experience-Fund.aspx\">Work Experience web page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:48% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2019\/09\/4-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2019\/09\/4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2019\/09\/4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2019\/09\/4-680x907.jpg 680w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2019\/09\/4.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>We can help you apply to the Work Experience Fund.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Simply come to the Careers and Enterprise Hub drop in at Augustine House (10-12pm 2-4pm on weekdays).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You can also email us at wef@canterbury.ac.uk<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Careers and Enterprise are pleased to announce that the Work Experience Fund for 2019\/20 is now available, and information, application form, T&amp;Cs and FAQs are live on our webpages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98421,"featured_media":5681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,10,5],"tags":[213,210,209,166,206],"class_list":["post-5657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-students","category-jobs","category-news","tag-experience","tag-jobs","tag-student-opportunities","tag-work-experience","tag-work-experience-fund"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Andrew Lombart","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2019\/09\/WORK-2.png","postExcerpt":"Careers and Enterprise are pleased to announce that the Work Experience Fund for 2019\/20 is now available, and information, application form, T&amp;Cs and FAQs are live on our webpages.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6174,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions\/6174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}