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The British Kidney Patient Association

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £5.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.kidneycareuk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The British Kidney Patient Association
Registered
1975

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.0m£6.7m
  • 2024£4.1m£6.7m
  • 2023£3.1m£5.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.0m£4.4m
  • 2021£2.0m£4.1m
Charitable 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.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

13 trustees on the board

5.2y median 5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

13
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 13General Charitable Purposes 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 16Finance 2Professional services 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 116.3 in 2020

91 from 33 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
270288
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/09/1975AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/04/1977AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/04/1978AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/05/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/10/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/05/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 01/06/2011NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 07 MAR 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 DEC 2018
Companies House
Company number 01228114 · Active
Contact on the register
01420541424 · info@kidneycareuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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