KIDNEY RESEARCH NORTHWEST

Registered charity 1144798 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KIDNEY FIRST, MERSEY KIDNEY FIRST

Principal objects of the charity are to undertake, promote, develop and encourage research into diseases of the kidney and urinary tract and research into the treatment of such diseases.

Objects

The charity's objects ("Objects") are specifically restricted to the following: (1) to undertake, promote, develop and encourage research into diseases of the kidney and urinary tract and research into the treatment of such diseases; (2) to undertake, promote and develop treatment of persons suffering from diseases of the kidney and urinary tract; (3) to undertake, promote and develop methods enabling those who are or have been under treatment for chronic renal disease to be medically rehabilitated; (4) and in the furtherance of these objectives and ancillary thereto, the charity may also: (a) Enable those suffering from renal diseases to follow their gainful employment and to continue their normal activities; (b) Provide activities through which patients suffering from renal diseases may find opportunity for social contact and responsibility; (c) Support patients through the distribution of information; (d) Provide support to patients suffering from renal diseases with the provision of equipment and facilities at local hospital renal units or at home at the discretion of the trustees; (e) Work to remove the fears associated with renal diseases; (f) Promote all or any of the objectives for the benefit of the community which are now or hereinafter may be deemed by law to be charitable.

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

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Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £98,713 for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by total income of £125,809 and expenditure of £71,156. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amounted to £608,339, which meets the stated target of equaling one year's total expenditure. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 19/05/2023, 19 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Kidney Research Northwest (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ABDUL HAMMADchair
• Dr Asheesh Sharma
• Graham John Kemp
• Matthew Lynch

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester · Halton · Knowsley · Liverpool City · Wirral

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• KIDNEY RESEARCH UK income £14.5m
• NORTHERN COUNTIES KIDNEY RESEARCH FUND income £325k
• THE KIDNEY FUND income £297k
• Kidney Wales Charity income £319k
• NATIONAL KIDNEY FEDERATION income £707k
• TRAFFORD RENAL RESEARCH TRUST income £95k

Side by side with its peers

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