THE BRITISH KIDNEY PATIENT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 270288 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B K P A, KIDNEY CARE UK, THE SILVER LINING APPEAL OF THE BRITISH KIDNEY PATIENT ASSOCIATION · also registered in Scotland as SC048198 (OSCR)

To improve quality of life for those affected by kidney disease by: giving financial support to kidney patients in need; making grants to renal units to improve care by funding staff posts, capital works and equipment/projects; providing advice, information, support and services; campaigning to inform policy and practice at all levels; and supporting multi-professional, patient-centred research.

Objects

(A) TO EDUCATE AND INFORM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ALL FORMS OF KIDNEY AND ASSOCIATED DISORDERS.(B) TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM KIDNEY AND RENAL DISEASES OR ASSOCIATED DISORDERS ("KIDNEY PATIENTS") INCLUDING PROVIDING THEM WITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.(C) TO MAKE GRANTS TO HOSPITALS FOR NEW BUILDINGS AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKS FOR KIDNEY UNITS, FOR FACILITIES FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION, DIALYSIS AND ANY OTHER RENAL TREATMENT, AND TO MEET THE COST OF EMPLOYING PERSONNEL TO PROVIDE RENAL SERVICES.(D) TO FUND RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF KIDNEY PATIENTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Hampshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £5,040,719, while total expenditure was £6,686,172, resulting in a net negative movement of funds of £1,028,070. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £434,709, which represents about one month of expenditure, with the Trustees acknowledging this is below their aspirational designated fund target of £30,000,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amar Sheenu Radia
• Angela May Griffiths
• Dr GRAHAM WILLIAM LIPKIN
• Grainne Walsh
• John Henry Brown
• Lewis Everard Temple
• Madeleine Warren
• Michael Barukh Zelouf · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Henry Lant
• Sally Anne Hulton
• Sarah Hillary
• Shivani Sharma
• William Richard Caldwell

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

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

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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
• NATIONAL KIDNEY FEDERATION income £707k
• ADDENBROOKE'S KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £113k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR SURGERY OF THE KNEE income £150k
• Popham Kidney Support income £250k

Side by side with its peers

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