We are aware that some applicants to our HSCVF national scheme are experiencing difficulties with the online application portal.  This is a newly developed online application form, having brought a two stage process into a one stage process for the first time this year, and inevitably there have been some teething problems. We are currently working through fixing these technical bugs, and thank you for bearing with us.
 
We understand that this may have resulted in applicants spending additional time uploading and saving information.  As a result, we have decided to extend the application deadline to Thursday 14 November 2013 at 5pm.  
 
We always strongly recommend that applicants work offline and enter the information once they are happy with final version and this continues to be our advice.
 
Best wishes
 
The HSCVF team