
SPF guidance
Application guidance and selection criteria 2025-2026.
The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) is a prize-fund of £73,000 to enhance sustainability on campus and locally via staff- and student-led projects. It was funded by a 20p ‘levy’ placed on single-use disposable coffee cups sold at King’s College London catering outlets.
Students, staff, KCLSU staff, academics, and alumni are invited to submit an application for up to £5,000.
Projects should align with or more of the categories below. Other suggested categories are also welcome.
The Sustainability Projects Fund is open to students or colleagues in any role and aims to advance sustainability on campus, in residences and/or in the local community.
If your idea is centrally concerned with education or research, King’s Climate & Sustainability invites you to consider applying to two further funds:
These funds are mutually compatible, so you can apply for more than one at a time.
Please read the documents on this page carefully.

Application guidance and selection criteria 2025-2026.

Slides for further information about the Sustainability Projects Fund.

Previous successful applications to the Sustainability Projects Fund.
This project from the Department of Twin Research seeks to develop a small communal garden on their balcony. The garden will use food waste from the Department to grow food and flowers suitable for pollinators, important for biodiversity, improving waste management, and creating a healthy community space.

This project from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities’ Student Experience Team aims to install a community fridge, which will be stocked with leftover food from events, to minimise waste and aid with the cost of living for students.

This project from the Department of Psychology aims to provide financial support for staff members to enable them to use sustainable transport methods for conferences in Europe.

The Innovation Hub will purchase an iWash Slide Washer, allowing them to reuse slides up to 50 times to reduce waste and emissions from the supply chain.

This project seeks to develop and enhance the King's Community Garden, including a range of measures to increase and monitor wildlife in the garden and the use of the space as a ‘living lab’ to develop education and research relating to biodiversity.
This project, from the School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine & Sciences, will subsidise business travel by rail where it is more expensive than flying.

This project by a postgraduate student on the MSc in Environmental Science for Sustainability aims to measure air quality in London by assembling low-cost mobile monitoring units and attaching them to bicycles. It will be the first incentive-based, community lead mobile air-quality monitoring network in the world, as well as integrating more kings students in topical research/data collection related to climate change to empower students with feelings of hope and action, knowing they are part of a solution.


Empowering our students to shape a more sustainable future.

Mobilising King’s research and expertise to respond to the climate crisis.

Building sustainability into King’s actions and operations.

Learn more about how you can join in with King's sustainability activities.