Cost of Living Advice

Merging legacy City and St George's resources

As we bring together resources for Clerkenwell & Moorgate (legacy City) and Tooting (legacy St George’s) students, some content may be specific to one campus and not the other. For the most relevant information, try using specific keywords or exploring content related to your department. If you need help, our support teams are available to guide you.

Clerkenwell & Moorgate students can use Support@City

Tooting students can contact studentlifecentre@sgul.ac.uk.

For Clerkenwell and Moorgate students

To reduce the impact of the Cost of Living crisis the University has launched a dedicated Hub detailing all the support available to students.

Visit the Cost of Living Hub

If you would like to speak to anyone about how the cost of living crisis is impacting you, please do reach out the University's Student Advisors via Support@City, for confidential conversations and to help you find the right support.

For Tooting Campus Students

Welcome to the Cost of Living Hub

We know that this may be a worrying time for our students and their families. We're here to help.

As well as the information on these pages, students are always welcome to come speak to the Student Life Centre (Hunter Wing, Level 0) if they would like to discuss any matters in person.

Here you can find all the latest information, support and guidance available to City St George’s students affected by the rising cost of living.

Due to extensive upgrade and refurbishment work taking place, some the below spaces in Hunter Wing are currently out of use, including our Students’ Union and bar. Please check your emails for details and  look out for further updates via student communications, as we will be in touch as soon as these spaces become available.

Eating

Food discounts, free food and cheap meals to cook at home

Support from City St George's
  • Get a 20% discount on hot meals when you show your Student ID Card at Ingredients (Lanesborough Wing, Level 1).
  • If you are ever in immediate difficulty, please contact the Student Life Centre.
Cheap meals to make yourself
Places to eat or buy food

See details of places where you can eat on our campus.

As well as this there are several other local and online vendors, including:

You can pick up fresh fruit, vegetables, fish and meat at Tooting Market, which is open 7 days a week. Vendors include:

Community help

Keeping warm

You can use our warm spaces on Tooting campus if it’s cold at home. There is a seating area in the Pret kiosk (Hunter Wing, Level 2), you do not have to have buy something from Pret to use this space, and the Students' Union bar (Hunter Wing, Level 2 open until 11pm) are all available. The Library is also open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Learn more about warm spaces (study spaces) and shower facilities onsite.

Other support

Energy Bills

Make sure are you receiving the Energy Bills Support Scheme discount.

Energy suppliers often provide hardship funds. There’s a handy summary on the Money Saving Expert website.

The Green Age

See tips on how to keep warm in a student house.

Transport

Tube and rail discounts, cheaper and sustainable travel options

You can also visit the Student Life Centre to discuss your options and find support.

Rail and road travel

Transport for London provide an 18+ Student Oyster photocard which offers discounted travel.

The 16 to 25 Railcard from The Train Line gives you a third off train tickets.

Low cost coach deals can be found on National Express and MegaBus.

Air travel

Use sites like Skyscanner, Jack's Flight Club or Kayak to compare the cost of flights before booking. These are especially good if you can be flexible with your dates.

Bike schemes

The Try Before You Bike scheme from Wandsworth Borough Council allows you to rent new or nearly-new bikes. If you like to bike you can buy it at a discounted price through a flexible payment plan. If you don't like it, it will be collected for free.

Holidays

Luckytrip offers low budget holiday options if you are able to be flexible with your dates.

Sustainable, flight-free travel can be arranged via WhatsApp with Byway.

Other ways to save money

You can also collect your copy of the Student Money Matters magazine from the Student Life Centre.

Local support

Student discounts

Free and discounted products

Help and advice

Support for parents

Talking to your family about money

Find advice from the MoneySavingExpert.

Part-time work

One of the advantages of being in London is that there are plenty of part-time work opportunities available. Students can find work in the many bars, cafes and shops nearby. If you have other specialist skills, there is a wide variety of temporary and part time jobs you could apply for.

Unitemps is the recruitment solution that brings you internships, part time and temporary jobs on and off-campus. Based next to the Careers Centre in Drysdale building, the Unitemps team are here to help you find a job that suits you – all you need to do is register using your passport and national insurance number first. You'll be automatically signed up for job alerts that will go straight to your email.

Our courses require intensive full-time study and many incorporate placements. Please take this into account when you are calculating how many hours you will be able to work during term time. If you are studying Medicine, remember that the holiday periods are reduced during the clinical years of the course.