The Financial Contingency Fund
Do you need financial help with learning Welsh?
Support is available through the Financial Contingency Fund.
To be eligible, you need to:
attend a 50+ hours Learn Welsh course with one of the Providers of the National Centre for Learning Welsh,
be 16 years of age or older on 31 August 2026,
be a settled, legal, UK resident for at least 3 years; or meet the conditions of residence in the Post-16 Funding Framework Guide (details in the policy on the website),
confirm that it would be difficult to access your studies without support from the Fund due to financial considerations being a barrier.