Founded as the '''Prince of Wales's Hospital Fund for London
in 1897, the fund changed its name in 1902 to King Edward's Hospital Fund''' after the accession to the
throne of King
Edward VII. In 1907,
Parliament incorporated the fund as the King's Fund.
George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen worked closely with the future
George V in building the charity's
endowment fund. Lord Mount Stephen was the charity's most important benefactor, having made gifts to the amount of £1,315,000. The fund was originally set up to contribute to London's
voluntary hospitals and did so, which it later started to inspect and expand. In the early 1930s the fund built a miniature scale model of a hospital to publicise the work of voluntary hospitals and educate the public on their importance. The model with its attention to all the details of the decor, equipment and workings of a hospital toured the country. The decor included 13,000 miniature
wall tiles made by W.B Simpson and Sons. which decorated the kitchen and children's ward and included
nursery rhymes among the subjects. == Think tank ==