EXETER AND DISTRICT KIDNEY PATIENTS' ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 276981 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EDKPA

Provide welfare for kidney patients being treated via Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital whether they are recently diagnosed, being treated for renal failure, on dialysis or after being transplanted.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM DISEASE OR ILLNESS AFFECTING THE KIDNEYS: ESPECIALLY FOR PATIENTS RECEIVING TREATMENT AT THE EXETER KIDNEY UNIT AND ITS SATELLITES.

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

Registered contact address: Torbay, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£36k
Latest spending
£50k
Registered
1979
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an excess of payments over receipts of £14,243 for the year ended 28 February 2025. Total assets less current liabilities stood at £489,302, with unrestricted cash reserves of £76,299. The trustees expressed confidence in their financial ability to continue work for the foreseeable future, noting that reserves are in excess of immediate needs despite reliance on unpredictable legacies.

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.

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 28/02/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 29/02/2024

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for acting as trustee
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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 29/02/2024 (received 05/02/2025, 38 days after the 29/12/2024 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Somerset

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
28/02/2025£36k£50k
29/02/2024£13k£44k
05/04/2023£23k£24k
05/04/2022£20k£45k
05/04/2021£58k£32k

Common questions

Is EXETER AND DISTRICT KIDNEY PATIENTS' ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an excess of payments over receipts of £14,243 for the year ended 28 February 2025. Total assets less current liabilities stood at £489,302, with unrestricted cash reserves of £76,299. The trustees expressed confidence in their financial ability to continue work for the foreseeable future, noting that reserves are in excess of immediate needs despite reliance on unpredictable legacies. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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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
EXETER AND DISTRICT KIDNEY PATIENTS' ASSOCIATION£36k—0unclear—no doubt
THE BRITISH KIDNEY PATIENT ASSOCIATION FY2025£5.0m——unclear—no doubt
COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION FY2025£29k——above—no doubt
EXETER DISABILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE FY2025£65k——unclear—no doubt
TYNESIDE KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION FY2025£60k—0above—no doubt
ADDENBROOKE'S KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED FY2026£113k—0unclear—no doubt

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