Kidney Patients Holiday Fund (Northern Counties)

Analysis

Kidney Patients Holiday Fund (Northern Counties) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in High Heaton. It was registered in April 1977, 49 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 trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending January 2026, Kidney Patients Holiday Fund (Northern Counties) reported income of £13k and spending of £4,751, leaving 63% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2022 to January 2026, income grew from £2,780 to £13k (+361%), an average of +46% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2023, when income rose by 278%. Over the whole period it spent 56% 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 Patients Holiday Fund (Northern Counties) sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Dorking Community Hospital (Supporting Local Health Care) (£13k), Thinking Autism CIO (£13k) and Lifeline Romania with Chesterfords Aid (£13k).