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 had a total value of £1,000,000 for Rounds One and Two. It supported project proposals between £25,000 and £50,000, increasing to £100,000 for high value proposals with clear scalable impact.

Round Three of the One King's Impact fund will support project proposals between  £25,000 and £50,000. 

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

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

In July 2025, we awarded a further £500,000 across nine projects. Find out more about the projects here. 

Round Three

Round 3 of the One King's Impact Fund will be open for applications between 11 December 2025 - 1 April 2026. Scroll down to find out more and apply. 

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.