Janet is a 30 year old single parent with two children. She is studying Access to Science at Liverpool Community College.

"My ultimate goal is to be a secondary school teacher and when I’ve completed this course I intend to go to university to do a mathematics degree and then on to a one year PGCE course. I am experiencing difficulties with the financial aspects of my course. For example, I find travel costs, books, calculator, stationery and writing materials, difficult to fund due to other pressing demands on my already low income. I am not qualified in any profession and I am currently unemployed. I have no wish to remain this way.

For me this course offers a realistic hope of employment and a better life for me and my children. Unfortunately I fear that without further financial support through the Horizons programme, I will be unable to continue on to this course and will therefore have no hope of achieving the goals that I have set for myself."

Janet was awarded a grant of £200