The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.
You might also find reference data on area cost uplifts and disadvantage uplift factors to use with funding calculations useful.
We use this data in the funding system to support publicly funded education and skills in England. This covers the adult skills fund, both in devolved and non-devolved areas.
The guidance document accompanying the data file explains how we use this data and what you can do with it to aid your enrolment of learners, and creation of individualised learner record data.
The complete ASF postcode dataset is too large for you to open conventionally in spreadsheet software. You can load this file into a database or BI software to query the whole dataset.
To allow you to view the data in a spreadsheet, we have split the complete ASF postcode dataset into several spreadsheet readable csv files.
This file contains just the postcodes from the complete ASF postcode file that fall within devolved authority areas.
This file contains all postcodes from the complete ASF postcode file that begin with the letters A to K, including all Department for Education (DfE) funded, devolved authority funded and non-funded British (Welsh and Scottish) postcodes.
This file contains all postcodes from the complete ASF postcode file that begin with the letters L to R, including all DfE funded, devolved authority funded and non-funded British (Welsh and Scottish) postcodes.
This file contains all postcodes from the complete ASF postcode file that begin with the letters S to Z, including all DfE funded, devolved authority funded and non-funded British (Welsh and Scottish) postcodes.
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The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.
You might also find reference data on area cost uplifts and disadvantage uplift factors to use with funding calculations useful.
We use this data in the funding system to support publicly funded education and skills in England. This covers the adult skills fund, both in devolved and non-devolved areas.
The guidance document accompanying the data file explains how we use this data and what you can do with it to aid your enrolment of learners, and creation of individualised learner record data.
The complete ASF postcode dataset is too large for you to open conventionally in spreadsheet software. You can load this file into a database or BI software to query the whole dataset.
To allow you to view the data in a spreadsheet, we have split the complete ASF postcode dataset into several spreadsheet readable csv files.
This file contains just the postcodes from the complete ASF postcode file that fall within devolved authority areas.
This file contains all postcodes from the complete ASF postcode file that begin with the letters A to K, including all Department for Education (DfE) funded, devolved authority funded and non-funded British (Welsh and Scottish) postcodes.
This file contains all postcodes from the complete ASF postcode file that begin with the letters L to R, including all DfE funded, devolved authority funded and non-funded British (Welsh and Scottish) postcodes.
This file contains all postcodes from the complete ASF postcode file that begin with the letters S to Z, including all DfE funded, devolved authority funded and non-funded British (Welsh and Scottish) postcodes.