Please read this page before completing the registration form to ensure that you are eligibile to register for ACES.
You are eligible if:
- attend S4, S5 or S6 at a state secondary school in Edinburgh, the Lothians, the Scottish Borders, Falkirk, Stirling or Clackmannanshire, and are interested in studying art, design or architecture
- AND you fulfil one or more of the eligibility criteria listed below
- live in a postcode area within the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation lowest 20% (SIMD20/Quintile 1/) or 40% (SIMD40/Quintile 2)*
- care experienced
- estranged
- young carer**
- refugee or asylum seeker
- entitled to Free School Meals
If you are unsure if you are eligible, please contact us directly on 07766 511980 or aces@ed.ac.uk to discuss this.
Once we have processed your registration and confirmed your eligiblity, we will send you a welcome email with further information about ACES. Please note that it can take up to 7 days for us to process your registration.
More information about some of our criteria
*Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation lowest 20% (SIMD20/Quintile 1/) or 40% (SIMD40/Quintile 2)
You can find your postcode category at http://simd.scot
Type your postcode into the ‘area finder’ box on the left, click ‘GO’, then hover over the bottom of the yellow marker that appears on the map.
If the ‘current data zone’ box on the right of the screen states ‘Quintile 1’ or ‘Quintile 2’ then you are eligible to register with the project.
If you are unsure of this or would like further clarification, please contact us and we can check for you!
**Young Carer
By this, we mean a young person who cares, unpaid, for a friend or family member who due to illness, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction cannot cope without their support.