Cancellations
Cancellations will be accepted up to six weeks before the course takes place, but your deposit will be returned less a £50 administration fee. If a place is cancelled after this time, the full deposit of £150 becomes non-refundable. However, we will do our best to find someone else to take your place and if we succeed, the balance of your fee will be returned. If we fail, we reserve the right to retain the full fee. On rare occasions we may need to cancel a course; in this case we will return all fees paid but cannot pay travel or other costs. Please note that we do not provide cancellation insurance and advise those booking places to take out their own.
Changes to the Programme
The Arvon Foundation reserves the right to make changes to the advertised programme. Due to planning the Arvon programme in advance, some changes will occur to some courses. We always endeavour to replace tutors with someone equally experienced.
Loss
The Arvon Foundation cannot accept responsibility for any loss, damage or expense sustained by students as a result of an event or circumstance whether arising from natural cause, human agency, or beyond its control otherwise.
Conduct
The nature of the Arvon course relies on a level of tolerance and understanding of others and their creative work and we ask that you are thoughtful and respectful of the other students. The Arvon Foundation reserves the right to refuse a place and to exclude from a course any student who, in the opinion of the Centre Directors, behaves in an abusive or disruptive manner or engages in any discriminatory conduct. No refund will be given if exclusion is made for these reasons .
Grants
The maximum grant you may apply for is £300. However, if a grant has been awarded in the past, further applications must be for a lower amount of financial support. Any individual is eligible for up to three grants but no more than one in any given year. All grant applications must follow the guidelines. It is a requirement of the grant that a written report is completed after the course.
