Kidney Research Yorkshire

Analysis

Kidney Research Yorkshire is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Brighouse. It was registered in October 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05205363). It says it sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending September 2025, Kidney Research Yorkshire reported income of £181k and spending of £528k, spending 292% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £191k to £181k (-5.2%), an average of -1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2024, when income rose by 167%. Over the whole period it spent 147% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Kidney Research Yorkshire sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Emotion Dysregulation in Autism (£181k), Agency for Culture and Change Management (£181k) and Ocular Melanoma UK (£181k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.