US – Opening Doors appeal

We’re opening our doors on a brand new building in 2026 because we want more international students to have a home from home at ISH.

Why your support matters

With our new building, we’ll accommodate up to 611 students each year across Great Portland Street and Kennington. Your donation will help ISH: 

• Expand the number of accommodation scholarships we offer from 35 in 2025 to 100 – £16,700 could fund an ISH accommodation scholarship for one year.
• Extend our Great Portland Street cultural exchange programme into the new Kennington campus; did you know we already provide subsidies for residents’ Travel Club adventures totalling £99,000 a year?
• Expand the welfare and mental health support that is a safety net for young people living far from home and their families.

Every gift will help ISH continue to make a life-changing impact on new residents.

Thanks to our amazing alumni community and generous major donors and trusts, our Opening Doors Appeal has raised £192,189 so far. We are blown away and delighted to offer you the opportunity to have your name on the walls of our new building too.

Select from the chance to:

• Sponsor a brick in a commemorative wall in Kennington
• Feature in a specially commissioned photomosaic of our founder, Mary Trevelyan.

Join these donors whose names are already celebrating the expansion of International Students House in London

How to donate 

Make a tax-deductible donation: Click the button below to donate through Friends of International Students House (London) [FISHL], our 501(c)(3) sister organisation. Your donation is tax-deductible, and you’ll receive a receipt for your tax return with further information on the next steps if you select one of our rewards.