To strengthen our combined impact we are committed to unite our assets and expertise to actively engage with and address urgent and deep-rooted challenges. 

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.

About the One King's Impact Fund

The 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.

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, justice and security in a turbulent world
• Technology for good

Now open for applications

The One King’s Impact Fund is open for applications until 1 April 2026. 

Open to staff and students across King’s, the fund supports proposals between £25,000 and £50,000 to run activities from September 2026 to September 2027.

Project teams must include and demonstrate genuine contribution from at least two members of King’s academic and professional services staff and at least one external stakeholder, including other universities, organisations or community groups/representatives.

Please carefully read our guidance document for the full criteria and apply using our online form. 

To support applicants in developing strong proposals, information sessions are also available throughout February and March, covering the fund, eligibility criteria and application process. 

Funded projects

Since launching in 2024, the Fund has supported 17 projects across two funding rounds, with a total investment of almost £1 million.

Discover the projects we've supported here.

What type of projects have we funded so far?

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.