Adult education and skills funding allocations
Source: gov.uk (2025-07-16)

Information on how we allocate adult skills funding, loan facilities and bursaries, apprenticeships carry-in and non-levy extensions to providers.

Adult education and skills funding allocations

We use this page to explain how we allocate funding for:

adult skills fund (ASF)

advanced learner loans facilities and bursaries

apprenticeships carry-in and apprenticeship non-levy extensions

We will provide updates as we move through the funding allocation cycle and issue all allocations through manage your education and skills funding (https://skillsfunding.service.gov.uk).

How we calculate allocations

We explain how we calculate your funding allocations in our technical guidance when we start to issue the allocations. We calculate allocations annually using nationally consistent methodologies, taking into account the current policy position and affordability.

The general principles we typically follow when setting allocations are to:

reflect historic (lagged) delivery and current allocations to ensure that future allocations are in line with what providers can realistically earn

ensure that we treat all providers fairly and equitably

protect public funds and meet principles of public law

enable providers to respond to government priorities

Information for academic year 2025 to 2026

Our funding allocation guidance (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-and-skills-funding-allocations-guidance) will help you to understand how we’ve calculated your funding and what data sources we have used.

We will publish calculators to help you understand your allocation value.

Allocation timeline

We will publish updates to the timeline as we deliver funding allocations. The latest news column on the timeline shows updates.

Business cases for significant data errors

When to submit a business case

You should only submit a business case if you:

have made significant data errors that have affected your funding allocation

had a contract value for the 2024 to 2025 funding year but did not use it and therefore you have not received a 2025 to 2026 allocation

When not to submit a case

We do not accept requests for growth or cases that are not related to data errors.

How to submit a case

Submit your business case using our digital form (https://digital-forms.education.gov.uk/Ng3iHwoe-Y/submit-a-business-case) after reading our form guidance (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/19-funding-allocations-guidance-2025-to-2026).

Thresholds for business cases

We apply standard minimum thresholds to decide whether we will consider a case.

For cases where you had contract value for the 2024 to 2025 funding year but did not receive a 2025 to 2026 allocation:
- we will email you to confirm the maximum you can request is £25,000 or your current contract value, whichever is lower
For cases where you have made significant data errors that have affected your funding allocation:
- the minimum overall impact must be more than 5% of allocation
Response timelines

We aim to communicate the outcomes in June 2025 through Document exchange.

Contact us

If you have questions after reading our guidance, or if there’s anything else you need help with, you can find more support in our customer help centre (https://customerhelp.education.gov.uk/hc/en-gb).

Published allocations

You can view institutional level funding allocation data for the last 7 years. You can view older, archived funding allocations (https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search/result/?q=funding+allocations+to+training+providers&site=) on the National Archives website.

2024 to 2025 funding allocations to training providers (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2024-to-2025)

2023 to 2024 funding allocations to training providers (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2023-to-2024)

2022 to 2023 funding allocations to training providers (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2022-to-2023)

2021 to 2022 funding allocations to training providers (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2021-to-2022)

2020 to 2021 funding allocations to training providers (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2020-to-2021)

2019 to 2020 funding allocations to training providers (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2019-to-2020)

2018 to 2019 funding allocations to training providers (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2018-to-2019)