The British Kidney Patient Association

Analysis

The British Kidney Patient Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Alton. It was registered in November 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 01228114). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The British Kidney Patient Association reported income of £5.0m and spending of £6.7m, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £2.0m to £5.0m (+150%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 159% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The British Kidney Patient Association sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cardiac Risk in the Young (£5.0m), Lumos Foundation (£5.0m) and Women for Women International (UK) (£5.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 53%, charitable activities 33%, investments 13% and trading 1.1%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £401k. Charitable activities took 81% of spending and raising funds 16%. Grants to other organisations totalled £166k. Reserves of £435k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 112 people.

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.