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Deadline
9 December 2025 (16:00 GMT)
Scholarship Amount
- Approved airfare from your home country to the UK and return at the end of your award
- Tuition fees
- Stipend (living allowance) at the rate of £1,452 per month
- Thesis grant towards the cost of preparing a dissertation, where applicable
- Warm clothing allowance and visa reimbursement, where applicable Study travel grant towards the costs of study-related travel within the UK or overseas
No additional allowances are available for spouses or other dependants
Number of Scholarships
8 scholarships are available under this scheme
Eligible Countries
Study Level
Postgraduate Taught one-year courses starting in September 2026
Eligible Courses
The scholarships are open to students applying for the following taught masters programmes to begin their studies in September 2026:
- MSc Conservation and Land Management
- MSc Agroforestry and Food Security
- MSc Environment and Business Management
- MSc Public Health and Health Promotion
Eligibility
To apply for these scholarships, you must:
- Be a Commonwealth citizen, refugee, or British protected person
- Be permanently resident in Kenya or Uganda
- Be available to start your academic studies in the UK by the start of the UK academic year in September 2026
- By August 2026, hold a first degree of at least upper second class (2:1) honours standard
- Not have studied or worked for one (academic) year or more in a developed country
- Be unable, either yourself or through your family, to pay to study in the UK
How to Apply
Please contact the Windle Trust to express your interest in the scholarship and your suitability as a nominee: postgraduate@windle.org.uk
Do not apply directly to 18ËêÑÇÖÞÎçÒ¹¸£Àû.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to make an application to 18ËêÑÇÖÞÎçÒ¹¸£Àû.
The application system will open for candidates on the 12 November 2025. Deadline to apply is 9 December 2025.
Universities will inform candidates of the results by July 2026.
For further details on the scheme please see the