Popham Kidney Support

Registered charity 1160114 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PAUL POPHAM FUND, PAUL POPHAM FUND, RENAL SUPPORT WALES

To provide all Kidney Patients in Wales with a better quality of life. Putting Patients First, helping them believe in themselves to achieve a better quality of life for them and their families. Providing support services that share information, advice and emotional support through our Peer Mentor Services and supporting projects that improve facilities, patients welfare and wellbeing

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF RENAL PATIENTS IN WALES BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, SUPPORT SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN HEALTH CARE BY THE PROVISIONS OF LECTURES, FORA AND BY THE PUBLICATION OF NEWS LETTERS DEVOTED TO HEALTH CARE.

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

Latest income
£250k
Latest spending
£238k
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £12,432 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted fund balances of £87,242. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting.

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 4 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Popham Kidney Support (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£250k£238k
04/04/2024£198k£207k
04/05/2023£158k£185k
04/04/2022£195k£146k
04/04/2021£169k£109k

Common questions

Is Popham Kidney Support financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £12,432 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted fund balances of £87,242. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds Popham Kidney Support?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Popham Kidney Support as a grant recipient include SWANSEA C V S, THE AUSTIN BAILEY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
SWANSEA C V SFY2022£5kThird Sector ICF Capital Grant Scheme
THE AUSTIN BAILEY FOUNDATIONFY2022£1k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund12/03/2026£20kDeveloping Peer Support in Primary Care
The National Lottery Community Fund30/10/2024£20kPopham Kidney Cafes
Postcode Lottery28/06/2024£25kUnrestricted Funding
Postcode Lottery03/04/2023£25kProject Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund06/12/2022£489kPeer Support Service for people with kidney disease in Wales.
The National Lottery Community Fund18/04/2019£99kDeveloping the Paul Popham Befriending & Counselling Services
The National Lottery Community Fund12/04/2019£10kKidney Patients Education Services
The National Lottery Community Fund27/08/2015£5kVolunteer Recruitment Campaign

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Popham Kidney Support£250k—0unclear—no doubt
THE BRITISH KIDNEY PATIENT ASSOCIATION FY2025£5.0m——unclear—no doubt
Kidney Wales Charity FY2025£319k—0unclear—no doubt
PATIENT WELFARE SOCIETY (PWS) FY2025£169k—0unclear—no doubt
THE POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE CHARITY FY2025£348k—0above29.0%no doubt
Kidneys for Life FY2025£218k——below—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.