We believe that we do more, and do it better, when working together.

We value partnerships that take a collaborative approach to achieving shared goals. They extend our reach, increase our impact, and help us find creative solutions to problems.

These partners extend our reach and support the ways we work:

King’s College London partnership since 2019

Citizens UK is a charity that organises communities to act together for power, social justice and the common good. Community organising is based on the principle that when people work together, they have the power to change their neighbourhoods and the country for the better. This methodology creates change by building relationships and developing leaders. King’s collaborates with local and national professional organisers to engage our communities. We listen to what issues need addressing and develop leaders from those communities.

We are the first widening participation department to use community organising techniques. This led to Parent Power and Empoderando Familias and strengthens our working relationships across King’s.

Find out more:

• If you have any questions about King's partnership with Citizens UK, please contact Michael Bennett. 
• For further information about Citizens UK, visit the Citizens UK website.

King's Widening Participation Partner since 2011

IntoUniversity is a nationwide educational charity that works with schools to support aspirations and attainment amongst underrepresented young people. From each of its local centres across the UK, IntoUniversity provides learning and homework support, plus a mentoring scheme.

We deliver widening participation activity to IntoUniversity primary and secondary school pupils. We host events that give hundreds of pupils the opportunity to visit our campus each year.

King’s staff and students’ mentor IntoUniversity’s young people to support their educational and career pathways. Since 2018, we have funded the IntoUniversity Kennington centre, supporting over 8,000 pupils and achieving a 67% higher education progression rate compared to the 42% local average’

To date, over 780 IntoUniversity students have enrolled at King’s. In 2021-22 we introduced a UCAS process so that IntoUniversity students receive additional consideration when applying.

Find out more:

• For more information about how King's works with IntoUniversity, please visit our King's IntoUniversity webpage.
• If you're King's staff or student, you can find out about one-off volunteering and mentoring opportunities with IntoUniversity on our King's Volunteering webpage.
• For further information about IntoUniversity, visit the IntoUniversity website.

King's Widening Participation Partner since 2020

The Armitage Foundation is a charity that aims to increase the number of medical students from underrepresented backgrounds. Current medical students from widening participation backgrounds run after-school programmes designed to show that medical school is achievable.

We partner with The Armitage Foundation to deliver their year 8-9 Juniors and year 10-11 Seniors programmes in two London schools. 

Find out more:

• For further information about how King's works with The Armitage Foundation, visit our King's The Armitage Foundation webpage.
• Discover more about The Armitage Foundation by visiting The Armitage Foundation website.

King's Widening Participation Partner since 2012

The Brilliant Club is an access charity that delivers programmes with schools and universities across the UK to increase the number of underrepresented pupils progressing to highly selective universities and succeeding once they get there.

We support The Scholars Programme which places researchers in state schools to deliver university-style tutorials. We host launch and graduation trips, so thousands of pupils can visit our campus each year. King’s also supports The Brilliant Club's Researchers in Schools scheme. This recruits and places PhD graduates as trainee teachers committed to closing the attainment gap and promoting university access.

Find out more:

• Find out more about The Brilliant Club on our King's The Brilliant Club webpage
• For information about King’s Researchers in Schools, visit our Teaching opportunities webpage. 
• Read our blog post written by a King’s Brilliant Club PhD tutor about their experience with teaching.

King's Widening Participation Partner since 2018

The Elephant Group is a headteacher-led charity committed to improving fair access to top universities through collaboration between school leaders, universities, and other partners. Their aim is for the top third of non-selective state school pupils to access top third universities. Over the last three years 60% of their London cohort achieved this.

We partner with The Elephant Group to deliver their access programme to year 12-13 pupils. We host events on our campus, deliver academic tasters and information and guidance sessions, and share our knowledge with school leaders. Hundreds of students from The Elephant Group have visited our campus and we have welcomed over 30 onto our degree programmes.

Find out more:

• For information about how King's works with The Elephant Group, visit our King's The Elephant Group webpage.

What Works Partner since 2019

What Works was commissioned to set up a ‘What Works’ centre for higher education in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University, The Behavioural Insights Team and with funding from the Office for Students. This new centre called the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (or TASO for short) has now spun out from King’s becoming independent after a year-long establishment phase.

Since April 1st 2021 TASO was set up as an independent hub for higher education professions to access research, toolkits and evaluation guidance to help improve equality in education.

TASO is a key partner with the What Works department working to collate and disseminate evidence on the most effective approaches to widening participation and student success.

Find out more:

• Visit the TASO webpage for further information.

These partners help us deliver our core social mobility and widening participation programmes:

King's Widening Participation partner since 2020

Team Up is a tutoring provider that reduces the attainment gap in schools. Through tuition, it helps disadvantaged pupils in years 5-11 with maths and English. Tutors are current university students.

We partner with Team Up to deliver academic tutoring on our Scholars+ GCSE programme. Scholars+ data from the first pilot year shows pupils made an average progress of 0.9 of a grade for maths, and 1.3 of a grade for English.

Find out more:

• For further information about our King's Scholars+ programme, visit our Scholars+ webpage.
• Discover more about Team Up by visiting the Team Up website.

Supporters of Outreach for Medicine since 2009

The Worshipful Company of Barbers is one of the 110 City of London livery companies descended from medieval trade guilds. Established in 1308, it is one of the oldest of these trade associations. Charitable activities underpin the ethos of the Company and reflect, in large part, its medical origins.

Funding from The Barbers has allowed the King’s Outreach for Medicine team to develop expertise in medical and dental outreach. Their funding enables Outreach for Medicine to support thousands more underrepresented young people each year, extending our reach beyond London and to prospective students in years 10-11.

Thanks to their support we have created a pipeline of underrepresented students accessing the King’s Extended Medical Degree Programme, which is also supported by The Barbers.

Find out more:

• Discover more about The Workshipful Company of Barbers on their website.