The Participation Grant was designed to ensure that students who need to miss work, and therefore sacrifice income, to attend a Macfarlanes event are financially compensated.

It is available to working undergraduate students who have attended a Macfarlanes event and who meet the firm’s social mobility criteria, as set out in Rare Recruitment’s contextual recruitment system. The criteria include:

• lower socioeconomic background; and/or
• receipt of Free School Meals/Pupil Premium; and/or
• first-generation university student; and/or
• state-educated; and/or
• care-experienced status; and/or
• refugee/asylum-seeker status.

Please note, you must apply to this after the event and upload evidence to show that you missed work to attend the event.

Application deadline:
Friday, 7 August 2026 at 22:59 (UTC)
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