Stephenson Harwood Scholarships
Stephenson Harwood
Apply NowWant real support to study law? Apply for Stephenson Harwood Scholarships - get up to £15,000 a year, a mentor, insight days, work experience and a guaranteed assessment-centre place. Build skills, boost your uni and career prospects. Apply by 30 January 2026.
Stephenson Harwood offers scholarships to support students who plan to study law at a UK university. The programme will provide up to five students with A315,000 per year for each year of a three-year undergraduate law degree to help cover university fees and contribute to living expenses.
Scholarship recipients will also be paired with a mentor from the firm, invited to insight days and employment workshops, provided with work experience and guaranteed a place at an assessment centre for a training contract.
The scholarship is designed to address practical and social barriers to entering the legal profession. Applicants must be able to demonstrate academic potential, must have attended a state-funded, non-fee-paying school or college from age 11, and must meet at least one of the listed widening-access criteria (for example, prior receipt of free school meals, being first in family to attend university, having been in local authority care, being a young carer, or having arrived in the UK as a refugee/asylum seeker).
Applicants should be attending a state school or college with below-average A-Level/Higher point scores or low progression rates to higher education.
Applications for the scholarships open on 6 October 2025 and close at 10:00 on 30 January 2026. Prospective applicants should apply via the firms online application portal (link on the scholarships page) and can contact future.talent@stephensonharwood.com with questions.
06 Oct 2025
30 Jan 2026
01 Sept 2026
2026 intake
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- Must successfully apply for a law degree to commence in September/October 2026 (you do not need to have secured your place prior to your application for the scholarship).
- Be able to demonstrate that you have the academic potential to succeed at university.
- Be attending, and have attended from aged 11, a state-funded, non-fee-paying school/college.
- Must meet at least one of the following: be in receipt of (or previously received / been eligible for) free school meals, pupil premium, education maintenance allowance and/or 16 to 19 bursary; have grown up in a household where no parent or guardian attended university; have been in local authority care for a period of 3 months or longer; be a current or former full-time or part-time carer; or have come to the UK as a refugee or asylum seeker.
- Attending a state school or college with below average A-Level or Higher point score and/or low rate of progression to higher education.
£15,000 per year
Up to £15,000 per year for each of up to five students, paid toward fees and to contribute to living expenses for a three-year undergraduate law degree. Recipients also receive a mentor from the firm, invitations to insight days and employment workshops, work experience and a guaranteed place at an assessment centre for a training contract.
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