KIDNEY RESEARCH UK — grant history

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Latest income

£14.5m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£2.0m

Accounts grants total

£11.2m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

THE BRITISH ATHEROSCLEROSIS SOCIETY “Kidney Research UK grants available”
THE POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE CHARITY “PKD Charity (PKDC) and Kidney Research UK have launched a joint partnership to progress research in polycystic kidney di”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Disability (1 grantee)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Bristol Royal Hospital for Children	—	£229k
down	University College London	£1.5m	£712k
up	Imperial College London	£239k	£536k
up	University of Birmingham	£85k	£496k
down	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	£211k	£40k
not listed	University of Cambridge	£919k	—
not listed	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	£252k	—
not listed	King's College London	£200k	—
not listed	Royal Free Hospital and UCL Medical School	£114k	—
not listed	UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health	£100k	—
not listed	Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust	£90k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
University College London	FY2025	£712k	Grant to Professor John Cunningham
Imperial College London	FY2025	£536k	Grant to Professor Liz Lightstone
University of Birmingham	FY2025	£496k	Grant to Professor Caroline Savage
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children	FY2025	£229k	Grant to Professor Moin Saleem
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	FY2025	£40k	Grant to Professor Claire Sharpe
University College London	FY2024	£1.5m	Research grant awarded to institute with related trustee (Prof John Cunningham)
University of Cambridge	FY2024	£919k	Research grant awarded to institute with related trustee (Prof John Cunningham)
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	FY2024	£252k	Research grant awarded to institute with related trustee (Prof John Cunningham)
Imperial College London	FY2024	£239k	Research grant awarded to institute with related trustee (Prof Liz Lightstone)
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	FY2024	£211k	Research grant awarded to institute with related trustee (Prof Claire Sharpe)
King's College London	FY2024	£200k	Research grant awarded to institute with related trustee (Prof John Cunningham)
Royal Free Hospital and UCL Medical School	FY2024	£114k	Research grant awarded to institute with related trustee (Prof John Cunningham)
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health	FY2024	£100k	Research grant awarded to institute with related trustee (Prof John Cunningham)
Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust	FY2024	£90k	Research grant awarded to institute with related trustee (Prof John Cunningham)
University of Birmingham	FY2024	£85k	Research grant awarded to institute with related trustee (Prof Caroline Savage)
The Stoneygate Trust	FY2022	£2.5m	Stoneygate and Kidney Research UK Alport Research Hub
Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust	FY2022	£435k	Research grant to Dr Charles Tomson
Imperial College London	FY2022	£210k	Research grant to Prof Liz Lightstone
University College London, Royal Free Hospital and UCL Medical School	FY2022	£206k	Research grant to Dr Jill Norman
University of Cambridge	FY2022	£57k	Research grant to John Cunningham
Edinburgh University	FY2022	£46k	Research grant to Prof Jeremy Hughes

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 2013185 vs reference 11191000 (82.0% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.