GIVE A KIDNEY

Registered charity 1195852 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Give a Kidney's vision is "No waiting for a transplant for want of a kidney". We aim to achieve this by: raising awareness of living kidney donation, supporting living donors on their journey and advocating for living donation and for improvements to the living donation process. We have a particular focus on non-directed (altruistic) donation, that is giving your spare kidney to a stranger.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:1) RAISING AWARENESS OF LIVING KIDNEY DONATION IN THE UK, WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON NON-DIRECTED ALTRUISTIC DONATION2) PROVIDING INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO POTENTIAL AND ACTUAL LIVING KIDNEY DONORS THROUGH AND BEYOND THEIR LIVING DONATION JOURNEY3) ADVOCATING FOR LIVING DONATION AND FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE LIVING DONATION PROCESS

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

£110k

Latest spending

£178k

Registered

2021

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a significant excess of expenditure over receipts for the period, primarily due to restricted funding received in 2023 being spent in 2024. Despite this, the trustees confirmed that both restricted and unrestricted reserves remained positive at the end of the year.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 6 to 12 months of budgeted unrestricted expenditure (held: £41k)

“Give a Kidney’s reserve policy is to hold reserves of the level of 6 months of budgeted unrestricted expenditure of the coming financial year as a minimum and 12 months of budgeted unrestricted expenditure of the coming financial year as a maximum. This was £10,268 as of 31 December 2024.” — page 9

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
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Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Give a Kidney CIO (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Robert Dangoor Foundation — “With our friends at Kidney Research UK, we have established the Robert Dangoor Partnership for Living Kidney Donation.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

Received assets from another charity (21/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Robert Wigginschair · trustee of 1 other charity
Caroline Basarab-Horwath
Christopher Luck
Dr Adnan Sharif · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr PAUL VAN DEN BOSCH · trustee of 1 other charity
Edward David William Hibbert
Kiran Gupta
Mark Antony Kershaw
Paul Gibbs

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£110k	£178k
31/12/2023	£185k	£40k
31/12/2022	£43k	£19k

Common questions

Is GIVE A KIDNEY financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a significant excess of expenditure over receipts for the period, primarily due to restricted funding received in 2023 being spent in 2024. Despite this, the trustees confirmed that both restricted and unrestricted reserves remained positive at the end of the year. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE CATHERINE COOKSON CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£26k
PILKINGTON CHARITIES FUND	2	£13k
THE JAMES WEIR FOUNDATION	2	£8k
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£5k
THE FRANK LITCHFIELD GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£5k
DORIS FIELD CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£2k
THE A AND R WOOLF CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£2k
THE STONEYGATE TRUST	1	£1.9m

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Kidneys for Life.

Kidneys for Life income £218k
KIDNEY RESEARCH UK income £14.5m
THE BRITISH KIDNEY PATIENT ASSOCIATION income £5.0m
NATIONAL KIDNEY FEDERATION income £707k
Kidney Wales Charity income £319k
KIDNEY RESEARCH YORKSHIRE income £181k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
GIVE A KIDNEY	£110k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Kidneys for Life FY2025	£218k	—	—	below	—	no doubt
KIDNEY RESEARCH UK FY2025	£14.5m	£130,001 - £140,000	—	within	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH KIDNEY PATIENT ASSOCIATION FY2025	£5.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
NATIONAL KIDNEY FEDERATION FY2025	£707k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Kidney Wales Charity FY2025	£319k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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