To strengthen our combined impact, and taking an integrated approach, we committed to unite our assets and expertise to actively engage with and address urgent and deep-rooted issues. This includes the financial support that is offered to our communities across King’s Impact Priorities.

Our goal is to consolidate, integrate and elevate impact investment throughout education, research and service, facilitating the development of multi-disciplinary, cross-sector project teams, and enabling large-scale impact delivery in collaboration with external communities and partners.

One King’s Impact Fund

One King’s Impact Fund invests in supporting new initiatives and scaling existing projects across research, education and service that align with King's Impact Priorities.

One King’s Impact Fund has a total value of £1,000,000. It supports project proposals between £25,000 and £50,000, increasing to £100,000 for high value proposals with clear scalable impact.

Identified by our community, King's Impact Priorities aim to deliver positive change and value at local, national, and global levels. They are:

• A thriving and sustainable planet
• Whole-life health for mind and body
• Advancing equality and social mobility
• Peace and justice in a turbulent world
• Technology for good

Round One

In September 2024, we announced the nine projects received support in Round One of the Fund, with an overall investment of approximately £450,000. Find out more about the projects supported here.

Round Two - now open for applications!

The call for project proposals for Round Two of the One King's Impact Fund is now open.

The application deadline is 10am on Monday 3 March 2025.  

What type of projects are funded?

One King’s Impact Fund focuses on:

• Seeding new initiatives and projects in early/developmental stages aimed at creating positive change and value for people, planet and society.
• Encouraging applications from all types of projects that break disciplinary silos and integrate various types of activities. Projects need to demonstrate they have considered areas of and pathways to impact across research, education and service.
• Supporting projects that identify and organise a community around the issue to be tackled, where academic and professional services staff, students, alumni and external communities and partners work together to jointly identify a challenge as well as co-design and co-deliver the project.
• Pump-priming initiatives with high impact potential for sustainable and scalable impact – i.e. proposals with potential for further development and funding (e.g. research grants, philanthropic funding, matched funding from partners, adoption by external organisations, and other sources of continuity beyond King’s.).
• Projects that deliver impact locally, nationally and globally. King’s position at the heart of London offers a unique opportunity to develop local (to King’s) solutions with potential for scaling up nationally and globally. 

Key dates

• 3 March 2025: Application Deadline
• March - April 2025: Shortlisting 
• May 2025: Awards publicly announced
• June-July 2025: Funding disbursed
• July – August 2025: Projects commence

Drop-in sessions

To support you with your application, a series of drop-in sessions are available. FAQ sessions are informal, drop-in spaces for asking questions (you don't need to stay for the whole time, and can pop in anytime), whilst the Information sessions will include a short presentation at the beginning about One King's Impact and the Fund. 

Upcoming dates:

• Wednesday 4th December 15.05-15.45: FAQ session
• Tuesday 7th January 11.05-11.45: FAQ session
• Thursday 30th January 12.05-12.55: Information session
• Monday 10th February 14.05-14.55: Information session

To attend, sign up here. You do not need to attend more than one event. 

Apply now

Click here to submit your application. Before you do, explore our extensive guidance and support hub below, which includes a full version of the form you'll complete online.