Mark,
I'm not sure if it will help, but HeliCentre at Leicester were promoting their ZFH programme at Heli UK a couple of weeks back. They have a number of scholarships available, and are launching a degree course too. They have a career seminar next month (19 Jul)
Helicentre Aviation : Helicopter Pilot Career Seminars why not try and get to it? Well worth getting all possible PoVs before shelling out all that capital.
Best of luck!