Commonwealth Professional Fellowships 2025/2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 22, 2025

Applications for the Commonwealth Professional Fellowships 2025/2026 are actually open. The Commonwealth Professional Fellowships are for mid-profession professionals from low- and center-revenue international locations to spend a time period at a UK host organisation working of their sector for a programme {of professional} growth.

The goal of the Commonwealth Professional Fellowships is to offer professionals with the OPPORTUNITY to boost information and expertise of their given sector, and to have catalytic results on their workplaces.

These fellowships are supplied below six growth themes:

• Science and expertise for growth
• Strengthening well being programs and capability
• Promoting innovation and entrepreneurship
• Strengthening international peace, safety and governance
• Strengthening resilience and response to crises
• Access, inclusion and alternative

Benefits

Each Fellowship supplies: 

• Approved return airfare from the Fellow’s home nation to the UK.  
• Reimbursement of the usual visa application charge.  
• Stipend (dwelling allowance) payable month-to-month (or professional rata) during the award on the charge of £2,104 per thirty days, or £2,612 per thirty days for these at organisations within the London metropolitan space (charges quoted at 2024/25 ranges).  
• If a Fellow declares a incapacity, a full evaluation of wants and eligibility for extra monetary help will likely be supplied by the CSC. See the CSC incapacity help assertion for extra info.  
• Arrival allowance of as much as £1,183.20 (charges quoted at 2024/25 ranges), together with a component for heat clothes.  
• A most of £2,000 per Fellow might be agreed by host organisations for brief programs/conferences in addition to journey to go to different UK organisations the place this kinds an integral part of the programme. Host organisations ought to keep in mind the restrictions set out in our steering on claimable prices.  

Eligibility

Prospective fellows should:

• Be a citizen of or have been granted refugee standing by an eligible Commonwealth nation, or be a British Protected Person.
• Be completely resident in an eligible Commonwealth nation.
• Have at the very least 5 years’ full-time, or equal part-time, related work expertise, in a occupation associated to the topic of the fellowship programme, by the proposed begin of the fellowship – voluntary work expertise is not going to be counted in the direction of this minimal.
• Be in employment on the time of application at an organisation that they’ll return to upon completion of the fellowship.
• Provide at the very least two references, one among which have to be from their present employer. Any functions for which references are usually not acquired by the reference deadline will likely be thought-about ineligible.
• Not have undertaken a Commonwealth Professional Fellowship throughout the final 5 years (on the time of taking on the award).
• Not be in search of to undertake a tutorial programme of analysis or study. Academics are eligible to apply for the scheme, however solely to undertake programmes of educational administration, not analysis or programs related to their analysis topic.
• Be obtainable to undertake their fellowship from the prescribed begin date.

Application

The type will shut at 4pm BST Friday 22 August. 

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Commonwealth Professional Fellowships.