Southend Clearing Open Day

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There is plenty of city centre parking in public car parks. The closest car park is located underneath University Square student accommodation which accessed via College Way and is payable by phone only.

Blue badge holders with Southend on Sea issued blue badges can park for free. Badge holders with badges issued by other authorities will need to pay the appropriate car park charges, however on street parking bays remain available and free of charge to all badge holders.

There are frequent trains from London to Southend which is served by two different rail lines, with journey times of 45 minutes to one hour:

• Southend Victoria (0.3 miles from our campus) to London Liverpool Street - operated by Abellio Greater Anglia
• Southend Central (0.2 miles from our campus) to London Fenchurch Street - operated by c2c

Both London Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street have underground and bus connections available for connections with Stansted, Gatwick and Heathrow Airport.

• National Express operate services to Southend bus station from all over the UK.
• As the campus is located in the city centre, most local buses stop nearby. Buses are run by Arrivabus and tickets can be bought online or via their app. Take advantage of their Student Saver tickets, available to anyone in full-time education.
• There are also a number of local services based in Southend. Below are some of those available:
  • 333444 Taxis
  • Southend Airport taxi transfer, call 07427 095060
  • Steve's Radio Cars, call 01702 559519

We've partnered with Greater Anglia to provide our prospective students with a free train ticket to attend our Clearing Open Day. You can claim one Greater Anglia off-peak day return ticket on the date of the Clearing Open Day from your nearest Greater Anglia home station to Southend.

Applications for the train ticket must be made at least 5 working days before the date of the Clearing Open Day. You will be able to add on accompanying tickets for any guests you're bringing with you. These tickets will be charged at the correct and current journey price.

To find out more information and apply for your ticket, visit the Greater Anglia website. You'll need a discount code for the free ticket so keep an eye out for this in your Clearing Open Day booking confirmation email or email us for the code. 

We appreciate that travelling to university events can be expensive and with rising costs, we want to ensure that as many of our prospective students as possible are able to visit us. We are therefore offering a bursary of up to £75 to reimburse your travel costs to visit us.

Take a look at the terms and conditions (.pdf) and travel bursary form (.pdf). You can fill in the form and bring it with you on the day, or we will have some available for you to fill out when you arrive.