Editing King's College London (section)

=== Students' union ===
[[File:reggiethelion.jpg|thumb|A papier-mâché version of [[King's College London Students' Union#Mascot|Reggie the Lion]], the mascot of [[King's College London Students' Union|KCLSU]], outside the Great Hall in King's Strand Campus]]
{{Main|King's College London Students' Union}}
[[File:King's College London Students' Union (KCLSU) Logo.png|thumb|Logo of the King's College London Students' Union (KCLSU)]]
King's College, London Union Society was founded in 1873.<ref name="kclsudates">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/dates.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202042509/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/dates.aspx |archive-date=2 February 2013|title=Dates|at=1850–1899 |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London|quote=1873 – The first students' Union Society is instituted at King's}}</ref> In 1905, this was reorganised, providing common rooms, student clubs and entertainment, with a further reorganisation in 1908 seeing it take over the athletics club (established in 1884) and other social activities, and becoming a [[Student unionism in the United Kingdom|students' union]].<ref name="KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: Union of Students">{{cite web |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/k-o/10ki80-1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415052230/http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/k-o/10ki80-1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: Union of Students |date=March 2001 |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London Archives}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025235415/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/news-archive/2008/dec/KCLSU-celebrates-100th-anniversary.aspx|archive-date=25 October 2015|date=4 December 2008|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/news-archive/2008/dec/KCLSU-celebrates-100th-anniversary.aspx|title=KCLSU celebrates 100th anniversary|publisher=King's College London}}</ref>

As [[King's College London Students' Union]] (KCLSU), it now provides a wide range of activities and services, including over 50 intramural sports clubs,<ref name="KCLSU Sports Clubs">{{cite web |url=http://www.kclsu.org/page.asp?section=1196&sectionTitle=Clubs |title=Clubs |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=[[KCLSU]]}}</ref> over 300 activity groups,<ref name="ActivityGroups">{{Cite web |title=Activity Groups |url=https://www.kclsu.org/groups/activities/ |access-date=2024-07-11 |publisher=King's College London Student Union |language=en-GB}}</ref> and bars and cafes (the Shack and the Vault in Bush House on the Strand Campus, and Guy's Café and Guy's Bar on Guy's Campus).<ref name=Shack/><ref name=Vault/><ref name="Guys Bar" /><ref name="Guys Cafe" />

Reggie the Lion is the official mascot of the students' union. In total there are four Reggies in existence. The original can be found on display in the undercroft of the Union's Bush House base at the Strand Campus. A [[papier-mâché]] Reggie lives outside the Great Hall at the Strand Campus. The third Reggie, given as a gift by alumnus Willie Kwan, guards the entrance of Willies Common Room in Somerset House East Wing.<ref>{{cite web |title=A new space for undergraduates |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers/news/Archive/2011/SomersetHouseCommonRoom.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=27 December 2015}}</ref> A small [[sterling silver]] incarnation is displayed during graduation ceremonies, which was presented to King's by former Halliburton Professor of Physiology, Robert John Stewart McDowall, in 1959.<ref>{{cite web |title=Graduation ceremonies |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/grad/ceremonies/afterceremony/KGRADBarbicanGradProgJul2015FORWEB.pdf |publisher=King's College London|access-date=14 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092902/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/grad/ceremonies/afterceremony/KGRADBarbicanGradProgJul2015FORWEB.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref>