The King’s Foundation launches 35th anniversary Impact Report
The King’s Foundation has launched it’s latest Impact Report, entitled 35 Years of Impact, detailing our mission to promote harmony with nature and build sustainable communities through education programmes, thought leadership, and practical expertise. The Impact Report will be formally launched on Thursday 12 June at The King’s Foundation Awards 2025 at St James’s Palace in London. The full report is now available here.
The report covers our involvement in architecture, urbanism, heritage, regeneration, sustainable communities, natural environment, food, farming, health and wellbeing, and traditional arts and crafts. It shows that we have positively affected hundreds of thousands of lives through various programmes, including training more than 40,000 students at The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, and over 90,000 people through education and health and wellbeing programmes at Dumfries House, our headquarters in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
The document also quantifies our work over the past year (2024/2025) in promoting sustainable practices, preserving traditional skills, and improving the quality of life for communities worldwide. In 2024/25, some 410,000 people visited the our sites at Dumfries House, The Castle and Gardens of Mey in Caithness, Highgrove Gardens in Gloucestershire, and The Garrison Chapel in Chelsea, West London.
“This year, we celebrate 35 years of changemaking as we mark the anniversary of our first summer school through the Institute for Architecture in 1990 – an educational model that remains a core part of the Foundation’s programmes today. At that first summer school, we brought together an exciting group of young architects who were united in the aim of building a world where its people could live in harmony with nature. From that pioneering first education programme, we have become a global charity effecting positive change on hundreds of thousands of people across the world.”
Kristina Murrin, CEO of The King’s Foundation
