Double your impact for LSE students from Africa
For a limited time, your support for the African Scholarship Fund can unlock matched funding, helping more talented students from across Africa take up their place at LSE.
Make an eligible one-off gift and it can be matched pound for pound up to £1,000. Or make an eligible multi-year pledge and unlock up to £2,000 in matched funding per donor in each year of the pledge.
Choose how you would like to make your impact
Thanks to a £1 million commitment from LSE alumnus Firoz Lalji, your support for the African Scholarship Fund can go even further. Choose a one-off gift or make a multi-year pledge to provide longer-term support.
How your gift will be matched
Make a one-off gift:
| Give £50 | + £50 | = £100 |
| Give £500 | + £500 matched | = £1,000 |
| Give £1,000 | + £1,000 matched | = £2,000 |
Make a multi-year pledge:
| Pledge £1,250 a year | + £1,250 matched each year | = £2,500 a year |
| Pledge £1,500 a year | + £1,500 matched each year | = £3,000 a year |
| Pledge £2,000 a year | + £2,000 matched each year | = £4,000 a year |
Contact Sarah Cook, our Director of Leadership Philanthropy, about your multi-year pledge, at: S.J.Cook@lse.ac.uk
This scholarship did not just bring me to LSE; it allowed me to feel safe, welcomed, and hopeful again. The generosity of the donors who made my scholarship possible lifted me from a moment of displacement and uncertainty and placed me on a path where I can imagine becoming part of Sudan’s future.
Talent should determine who studies at LSE
Across Africa, talented students are ready to bring new ideas and perspectives to LSE. For many, however, the financial cost of studying in London places that opportunity beyond reach.
In the 2025/26 academic year, LSE was able to offer scholarships to 23 students from Africa. Students from the continent represented 1.6 per cent of the School’s student community, despite Africa accounting for around 20 per cent of the world’s population.
Scholarships help address that gap, giving exceptional students the opportunity to study at LSE and use their education to make a difference beyond the School.
Scholarship opportunities for African students are so important because Africans have so much to offer. We have some of the smartest, most intelligent people on that continent, but we do not have the opportunities to showcase what we have.
Help create opportunities for 100 African scholars each year
LSE’s ambition is to provide scholarships for 100 students from across Africa each year through philanthropy.
This builds on a long relationship between LSE and the continent. More than 3,500 alumni live across Africa, while LSE’s teaching, research and partnerships continue to bring African perspectives into debates that shape the world.
Your support can help more talented students from across Africa access an LSE education and take what they learn into the world.
Open the door for another talented student
A place at LSE can shape the direction of a student’s life. With matched funding, your generosity can help more talented students from across Africa take up that opportunity.