Purple supports The King's Fund with guest WiFi at its London events venue

Manchester, LANCS, Nov. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Purple, the global guest, staff and multi-tenant WiFi and analytics platform, has been selected by The King’s Fund to provide guest WiFi at its central London conference and events venue, using Purple Capture, under a one-year agreement.

Purple supports The King's Fund with guest WiFi at its London events venue

Founded in 1897, The King’s Fund is one of the UK’s longest-established health charities, working to improve health and care in England through research, policy analysis, leadership development and a programme of events that brings health and social care professionals together. It is independent of government and the health service, funded through its own endowment and commercial activities rather than public money.

The charity’s venue at 11-13 Cavendish Square in central London includes 20 event spaces, among them a 282-seat lecture theatre, hosting a busy annual programme of conferences, seminars and leadership events. The same building also operates as a Health Campus, letting office space across several floors to other health sector organisations on minimum three-year terms, alongside The King’s Fund’s own staff, so the venue serves several different audiences under one roof on any given day.

The charity has continued to invest in its wider technology estate in recent years, including recruiting a dedicated IT infrastructure role to oversee corporate and venue network provision, reflecting a broader move across the conference and events sector toward treating reliable connectivity as core infrastructure rather than a background utility.

The King’s Fund launched a refreshed brand and a new 2025-2030 corporate strategy in June 2025, built around four priorities including a commitment to innovate for the future of health and care. A venue that welcomes hundreds of external delegates a year, across a building shared with multiple tenant organisations, is exactly the kind of setting where a simple, well-managed guest WiFi experience matters more than it might elsewhere.

The events programme itself has continued to invest in technology more broadly, including a 2026 partnership with CrowdComms to modernise its event app and delegate experience. Guest WiFi sits alongside that kind of investment as a basic expectation for delegates attending a modern policy conference, rather than a nice-to-have bolted on afterwards.

Commercial activities, including venue hire and the Health Campus office lettings, make up a meaningful share of The King’s Fund’s income alongside its charitable activities, helping fund the research, policy analysis and leadership development at the centre of its work. A venue that runs smoothly, including something as simple as guest WiFi, supports that commercial side as much as it does the charity’s own events.

The King’s Fund is widely regarded as one of the most influential health policy organisations in England, regularly cited in national coverage of NHS funding, social care reform and health inequalities. Its annual conference and leadership programmes draw health and social care professionals from across the country, many of them visiting Cavendish Square for the first time and expecting the basics, including a working internet connection, to simply be there.

Digital inclusion and the role of technology in health and care are themes The King’s Fund explores in its own policy work, including a new capability programme for health and care leaders on digital and AI leadership. Making sure its own venue offers something as basic as reliable guest WiFi is a small but fitting detail against that backdrop.

Purple Capture gives visitors to those events a simple, secure way to get online, while giving the venue team a clearer understanding of how their event spaces are used. For a venue welcoming hundreds of delegates across its annual conference programme, a straightforward connection experience is a small but meaningful part of how that visit goes.

As a certified B Corp, Purple is committed to doing business that does some good along the way, so working with a charity dedicated to better health and care is exactly the kind of partnership it is proud to support.

Steve Kirkbride, Senior Sales Director EMEA at Purple, said:

“As a certified B Corp, we care about doing business that does some good along the way, so working with a charity dedicated to better health and care is exactly the kind of partnership we’re proud of. I’m delighted to welcome The King’s Fund on board with Purple Capture.”

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