GFCA Fees and payment options
If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you are seriously considering applying for our advanced training at GFCA - or maybe you have already auditioned successfully, we have offered you a place, and you are researching how the finances might work.
Our advanced 20-month training remains cheaper overall than comparable courses in UCAS institutions that take up to 3 years to complete, and are much less focussed and intensive than ours
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So if you are trying to sort out the best option, it's worth noting that even though our fees have risen 2% for 2025 entry - after being frozen since the pandemic - we remain MUCH lower than UK UCAS-listed courses. To live and study in the UK for a year with GFCA is estimated to cost £21,000 compared with £29,500 (UCAS) - and for USA conservatoire training £70,500 per year!
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* If you have completed training with GFCA either in Paris or London, you are entitled to come to us for an Advanced 'Top-up/Summation' Term to boost your industry profile and deepen your range - ask for full details. ALSO if you have equivalent training at an establishment either in the UK or Internationally, you are eligible to apply so please get in touch..
We recognise that it’s a big decision to make.
Here is more information to help you plan; and we are also available to discuss the options open to you.
ADVANCED PROGRAMME - FEES FOR AUTUMN 2025 ENTRY at 16/04/2025:
Deposit - to secure your place on the course - £800
This becomes due 3 weeks after your successful audition and acceptance of a place
Termly fee - £3,100 [terms 1 - 5]
Each term’s fee becomes due 3 weeks before the start of the term
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The total fees for the first year (= deposit, and terms 1 - 3) - £10,100
The total fees for the second year (= terms 4 - 5) - £6,200
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Monthly instalment plans can be arranged, to make it easier to budget.
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You can begin paying for your course in advance, depending on the date of your audition, which will lower the monthly payments.
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Talk with us about the options, and we can create a personal payment plan with you.
* 'TOP-UP/SUMMATION' ADVANCED TERM - FEE FOR 19 MAY 2025 ENTRY::
Deposit - to secure your place on the course - £800
TOTAL fee including deposit - £2,600
The fee becomes due 2 weeks before the start of the course.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Both International and UK applicants pay exactly the same fees
Our intensive training is arranged in 3 linked Units, each of 6 months or less.
There is a 2-month break between each unit, allowing for travel or outside projects to be undertaken.
There is a mid-unit break of 3 or 4 weeks within units 1 & 2
Our Scholarship scheme
GFCA offers an annual scholarship, providing one actor or actor/director with a subsidised place on the 20-month Advanced Intensive Acting or Acting/Directing Diploma programme, providing the opportunity to train with our experienced team of leading acting coaches. If chosen, you will be awarded a scholarship for 50% of the standard course tuition-fee; and the option to spread the rest of the fees in monthly instalments. SEE SECTION BELOW, FOR HOW TO APPLY.
GFCA is an independent not-for-profit organisation, and we do not have access to government subsidies. However we continue to explore new ways to reach out to and support talented individuals so they can access our training, irrespective of their financial or social background.
Scholarship - how to apply
Each year, scholarship applications open at 9 am on 1 January, and close on 16 July at midnight.
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If you have applied before the deadline but haven't yet had your audition, you are welcome to submit a video-audition by the deadline, along with an email in support of your application.
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If you have already auditioned for us either live or online, you only need to send us a confirmation email by the deadline, including your reasons for wishing to be considered.
Once we receive your additional email with the reasons for applying for the award, we may then ask you for some supporting documents, before deciding on the short-list. We may invite applicants to an extra audition, online or at the centre in London with Giles Foreman and other core tutors. The final decision is normally announced by 1 August..
For further information, please email us.
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VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
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Self-tape 2 varied monologues, each no more than 2 minutes long.
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Upload video files onto Wetransfer or another free downloading site, or onto YouTube / Vimeo (videos should be unlisted, or set to private).
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Email the link with the subject line ‘GFCA Scholarship Submission from: ’.
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We don't need great video production quality, but please check that the quality is good enough for us to be able to hear and see you!
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Those shortlisted will be given at least 2 weeks confirmation if an audition-date is required.
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A decision is normally reached on the scholarship no later than 1 August, with the successful candidate enrolling for the cohort starting training in late September.
Reflections on receiving the Scholarship
Richard Listor was the recipient of the first GFCA scholarship - he said:
“Being offered the Giles Foreman scholarship was massive. Before, I had all but written off the idea of intensive actor-training as something entirely inaccessible to me. Now I’ve had the opportunity to train with fantastic teachers, to get equipped and get prepared for life as a professional actor.”
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Giles Foreman says:
“The scholarship scheme has been very successful, and it is our aim to offer opportunities each year in order to reach out to young actors, irrespective of their personal circumstance or location. We are a self-funded institution, but we’re very aware that incredibly talented actors could slip through the net due to limited personal means.
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We hope that the scholarship scheme can enable an individual from any background to apply.”
