Recurrent funding

Funding for 2025-26

For the academic year 2025-26, the overall non-capital grant we are distributing is £1,311 million. Of this, we are distributing £1,287 million to providers through our recurrent funding streams.

Recurrent funding allocations are made to providers that are in the 'approved (fee cap)' category of the OfS Register. Initial 2025-26 allocations of funding for 335 providers that had registered in that category were released on 24 July 2025.

For details of capital funding for 2025-26, please see our capital funding pages.

Other documents

We informed each provider we fund of their share of the allocated funding via a covering letter, which set out their total grant.

Our funding streams

Of the £1,287 million of recurrent funding distributed for 2025-26, we distributed:

• £957 million in funding for high-cost courses, provided to help support the extra costs associated with teaching particular subjects.
• £273 million in funding for student access and success, provided to support student access and success for particular student groups. This included Uni Connect (£20 million for 2025-26).
• £57 million in funding for specialist providers, provided to support certain specialist institutions with world-leading teaching. For further details, please see our funding for specialist providers pages.

Algorithmic transparency

Algorithmic transparency information is published by the government Cabinet Office. It describes how we calculate OfS funding allocations for higher education providers in England and is reproduced here.