 A "quiet contemplation room" also allows prayer for staff and students of all faiths.UCL is a constituent college of the federal University of London, of which it was one of the two founding members in 1836 (the other being King's College London).UCL is a founding member of the Russell Group, an association of 24 British research universities established in 1994, and of the G5 lobbying group, which it established in early 2004 with the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, Imperial College London and the London School of Economics.