NATIONAL KIDNEY FEDERATION

Registered charity 1106735 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC049431 (OSCR)

Promotes throughout the United Kingdom the best renal medical practice and treatment, the health of persons suffering from kidney disease or renal failure and supports the related needs of those relatives or friends who care for kidney patients.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM THE BEST RENAL MEDICAL PRACTICE AND TREATMENT, THE HEALTH OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM KIDNEY DISEASE OR RENAL FAILURE, (HEREIN CALLED 'KIDNEY PATIENT') AND TO SUPPORT THE RELATED NEEDS OF THOSE RELATIVES OR FRIENDS WHO CARE FOR KIDNEY PATIENTS.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bassetlaw, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £100,725 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total net assets of £2,346,955. The trustees maintain a stated reserves policy target of retaining unrestricted reserves equivalent to 12 months of expenditure, which they calculate as £750,000. The actual unrestricted reserves held were £1,824,464, which is above the stated policy target.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — National Kidney Federation (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~28.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/06/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLEEN SEPEDE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caryl Anne Mary Bryant
• Edmund Kenneh Klotey Clottey
• Geoffrey Robert Blair Downes
• John Roberts
• Jose Rico-Diaz
• Michael John Sinfield · trustee of 2 other charities
• Patricia Gooden
• Rosalind Ann Aird · trustee of 1 other charity
• Soumia Bouacida
• TARSEM LAL PAUL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zoe Maryann Buchanan

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE KIDNEY FUND.

• THE KIDNEY FUND income £297k
• THE BRITISH KIDNEY PATIENT ASSOCIATION income £5.0m
• Kidney Wales Charity income £319k
• TYNESIDE KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION income £60k
• NORTHERN COUNTIES KIDNEY RESEARCH FUND income £325k
• ADDENBROOKE'S KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £113k

Side by side with its peers

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