TRAFFORD RENAL RESEARCH TRUST

Registered charity 276992 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST SUSSEX KIDNEY RESEARCH AND RENAL SERVICES TRUST

Provides grants for research into kindey diseases, for the care of kidney patients & for education about kidney diseases.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ILLNESS OR DISORDER OF THE KIDNEY OR ANY LIKE ORGAN OF THE BODY AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL OR OTHER EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES BY THE TRAINING OF PERSONS WHO WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE BENEFICIARIES AND BY FINANCING OF RESEARCH INTO DISEASE DISORDERS AND AILMENTS OF THE KIDNEYS AND LIKE ORGANS OF THE BODY AND DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS THEREOF.

Area of benefit: EAST SUSSEX

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£95k

Latest spending

£6k

Registered

1979

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity held unrestricted reserves of £89,176 at the end of the financial year, derived from donations and interest income. Expenditure was limited to £5,736 for bank charges and medical meeting costs, resulting in a net increase in cash funds. The trustees consider the trust to be a going concern, noting that expenditure is matched with income.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

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 31/12/2025

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 11/12/2024, 41 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 11/12/2024, 407 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

DOCTOR JOHN CHRISTOPHER KINGSWOODchair
DOCTOR EDWARD KINGDON
Dr Sarah Helen Alexandra Lawman
Dr Victoria Jane Ingham

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£95k	£6k
31/12/2024	£0	£0
31/12/2023	£0	£0
31/12/2022	£0	£0
31/12/2021	£750	£0

Common questions

Is TRAFFORD RENAL RESEARCH TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity held unrestricted reserves of £89,176 at the end of the financial year, derived from donations and interest income. Expenditure was limited to £5,736 for bank charges and medical meeting costs, resulting in a net increase in cash funds. The trustees consider the trust to be a going concern, noting that expenditure is matched with income. Its FY2025 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 STONEYGATE TRUST	1	£2.6m
THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£345k
THE CAPRICORN FOUNDATION	1	£275k
THE CATHERINE COOKSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£75k
THE KIDNEY FUND	1	£40k
THE JOSEPH AND LILIAN SULLY FOUNDATION	1	£25k
THE LESLIE SMITH FOUNDATION	1	£20k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED	1	£20k

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
THE KENNEDY TRUST FOR RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH income £11.3m
THE RAINFORD TRUST income £313k
NORTHERN COUNTIES KIDNEY RESEARCH FUND income £325k
THE THROMBOSIS RESEARCH TRUST income £181k
THE SYDNEY BRENNER CHARITABLE TRUST income £277k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
TRAFFORD RENAL RESEARCH TRUST	£95k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
KIDNEY RESEARCH UK FY2025	£14.5m	£130,001 - £140,000	—	within	—	no doubt
THE KENNEDY TRUST FOR RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH FY2025	£11.3m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE RAINFORD TRUST FY2024	£313k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
NORTHERN COUNTIES KIDNEY RESEARCH FUND FY2025	£325k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE THROMBOSIS RESEARCH TRUST FY2025	£181k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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