Save some of that bucket of salt for PPRuNe. BA is recruiting low hour pilots this year. Just read further up this very thread for the number they need. However, you won't be done this year and even if you were, there's no guarantee you'd be in the very small percentage they take. Most wannabes don't get a choice where their first job is. Read PPRuNe for a few weeks and you'll quickly see that there are hundreds of CPL/IR holders that would take just about anything offered right now.
WWW's advice to research for a year is good, no salt needed for that one. Though I would say to him there's no need to check the Notams 18 months in advance, so the analogy breaks down a bit. Go ahead and apply to CTC and FTE now, but use the year long queue to do more research. Also bear in mind what the GBP to Euro exchange rate is doing to the cost for UK residents to train at FTE.