Living with us

Our Resilife Programme

The ResiLife Programme is set up to help build communities. Residents can engage and interact with one another to build friendships and share interests. The ResiLife Programme provides an environment to enhance the student experience and increase students physical and mental wellbeing.

In light of the recent climate, the ResiLife Programme has transferred online. Events such as Tea Talk Podcasts, Guided Meditations, Kitchen Hacks, and entertainment evening are available weekly for King's residents and take place via online channels. Ensuring students don’t feel alone during this challenging time, the ResiLife Programme provides an online community for residents to reach out. Check out our online platforms to stay up-to-date with our weekly events.

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Our mindful sessions offer a fun, vibrant environment to engage with your community.

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Our Tea Talks sessions give support to students and give opportunity to our residents to share their experience.

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Kitchen hacks are fun, engaging sessions to help students improve their cooking skills.

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These events range from Karaoke nights to talent shows, this is your one stop for a fun-packed entertainment evening.

Creating Communities

Follow your residence on social media to meet your community and keep up to date with what’s going on in your new home:

If you're a prospective resident, keep informed about your application journey on Twitter and Facebook.

Share your story on Instagram with #kingsresilife.

Make sure you regularly check the ResiLife blog which will be updated with ResiLife tips and tricks and events throughout the academic year.

Keep up to date with King's ResiLife on our ResiLife Facebook page here.

Each week residents will have the opportunity to come together in three different forums in their halls. Through Tuesday Teatox, Thursday Art Nights and Saturday/Sunday Socials, there will be an opportunity for students to get together, relax, and enjoy each others company.

Monthly programmes are organised by the Community Facilitators to provide additional events throughout the month to celebrate global events and provide other opportunities to create a diverse community.

Residence Events Committee Meetings (REC), hosted by the Community Facilitators, is an open building meeting for any and all community members to attend coordinating, planning, advertising and execution of the event.

Join the kitchen talks hosted by the Community Facilitators in your flat monthly, this is a great opportunity to connect, find out what is going on in your residence and King’s in general or just to have a chat with someone.

Feedback is collected by your Community Facilitators weekly to ensure residents have a voice to shape the events in their community.

Community Facilitators act as role models and peers and help to develop communities for students to live and learn in. Being an CF is an exciting and life changing opportunity – you will make friends for life, build an incredible network, enjoy the status of the position as well as gaining experience and receiving training that is highly valued by employers.

Residences Welfare Leads are post-graduate students or full-time employees at King’s College London that choose to volunteer with King’s Residences to deliver on student wellbeing initiatives. The opportunity covers are range of areas from student welfare and conduct, to building a safe and nurturing environment for all residents.

Welfare Support

King's Residences provide an in-house welfare team at every residence. The Residences Welfare Leads are specially-trained staff or postgraduate students that live alongside you in residences and are on hand to support you while you're with us. Your Welfare Leads can be contacted directly, or at regular drop-in sessions, for advice, guidance, or even just a chat.

Support is also available via Student Services and your personal tutor. In addition, KCLSU are here to help you navigate these support services whenever you need.

You can contact your Residence Welfare Leads at:

Champion Hill Welfare: welfare.ch@kcl.ac.uk

Orchard Isle & Iris Brook Welfare: welfare.olib@kcl.ac.uk

Great Dover Street Apartments Welfare: welfare.gdsa@kcl.ac.uk

Stamford Street Apartments Welfare: welfare.ssa@kcl.ac.uk

Julian Markham Welfare: welfare.jm@kcl.ac.uk

Moonraker Point Welfare: welfare.mrp@kcl.ac.uk

Angel Lane Welfare: welfare.al@kcl.ac.uk

Vauxhall Welfare: welfare.vaux@kcl.ac.uk

Atlas Welfare: Welfare.atlas@kcl.ac.uk

King's Residences Welfare Policy

Further information on our policies can be found here.

Download Welfare Policies Document (0.34 MB PDF)
Download Our Discipline Policy Document (0.50 MB PDF)

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Testimonial

"Just wanted to thank you for all you have done during the past year, and even more so during these trying months. The Monday guided meditations have been a particular bright light and one of the few chances we all seem to get to power down and de-stress. Thank you!"
– Michael, PhD Defence Studies (Atlas)

Contents insurance

Your contents. Covered.

By partnering with Endsleigh, the No.1 student insurance provider, we’ve arranged free contents insurance for all our students staying with us. It is important all students confirm their cover to ensure you understand what is and isn’t covered. Plus you’ll also be entered into a prize draw specifically for King’s College London students, courtesy of Endsleigh!

We understand students have a limited budget so Endsleigh have launched brand new, unique student insurance options. They have been designed to cover the risks that you may encounter whilst living in student accommodation and away from home.

HH1197, if you live at Great Dover Street, Stamford Street, Wolfson House, or Champion Hill

HH1072, if you live at Angel Lane, Julian Markham or Moonraker Point.

HH1095, if you live at Atlas

HH1161, if you live at Tower Bridge or Vauxhall

FRESH2020, if you live at OLIB, you insurance company provider is Cover4insurance

To confirm your cover, please visit the KCL Endsleigh website

Beactive: Your free social activity programme

The BeActive Halls programme gives all King’s College London halls’ residents unlimited access to a weekly activity programme of 50+ sessions a week. Students can Play, Rejuvenate, Dance, Sweat, Learn, Explore and Experience for FREE. With 5-a-side football to yoga, salsa to circus skills, boxfit to crazy golf, there is something for everyone

The aim is simple: to offer fun, inclusive, weekly social activity that is quite literally on your doorstep. Beactive operates all over London including on campus and within residences. Students living in halls of residence have unlimited access to the BeActive programme including all of the standard sessions aswell as exclusive BeActive Halls sessions that take place within residences.

How do I get involved?

You will get an email at the end of September that tells you how to activate your membership and sign up to activities. Once you’ve activated your membership you can start booking by clicking here.

Please note: Students opting to live in University of London halls of residence will not be eligible for BeActive Halls but you can buy a membership for just £25 to attend all BeActive Standard sessions all year round.

King’s Gyms in Residences

King’s Sport Health and Fitness aim to provide all students studying at King’s with the opportunity to exercise no matter where they are living.

We therefore now have gyms located near to, or in the following halls:

· Stamford Street Apartments

· Great Dover Street Apartments

Our campus gym facilities will include the Strand, London Bridge and Waterloo gyms for the 2020/21 academic year.

What other King’s gyms do I have access to?

All students living in Great Dover Street Apartments and Champion Hill will have peak access to their gym located in the hall and off-peak access to our campus gyms (which can be upgraded to peak access for £40).

Students living in Stamford Street Apartments will receive free peak memberships for Waterloo and off peak access to The Strand and Waterloo (for 40 weeks of the year only, which again can be upgraded for £40)

How do I get access?

To activate membership and access to gyms, students must complete the online form sent via email by Resident Hall Managers. Students are granted access by activation of their student ID at the residence apartment front desk. Students in SSA should receive an email direct from King’s Sport to access the Waterloo Gym in the first week of October with students at Great Dover Street and Champion Hill receiving their off-peak access at this time as well.

King's Sports Feature

King's Move: Earn rewards for moving

King’s Move enables you to earn points every time you move by connecting with fitness tracking apps and wearable tech. You can exchange collected points for rewards on campus, whether this is a hot drink with King’s Food, Kings attire or even a personal training session at one of King’s Sport’s 3 gyms. You can also join challenges to keep yourself motivated, compete with yourself and others.