How your donations help

Kidney Care UK receives no statutory funding. We need to fundraise to be able to support patients and realise our vision and mission: to ensure no one faces kidney disease alone and to improve the quality of life for everyone affected by the condition.

How your donations help

Kidney Care UK receives no statutory funding. We need to fundraise to be able to support patients and realise our vision and mission: to ensure no one faces kidney disease alone and to improve the quality of life for everyone affected by the condition.

https://kidneycareuk.org/about-us/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/how-your-donations-help/

Fundraising income is only way we can support and sustain the growing demand for our services from patients and healthcare professionals alike.

It is your generosity that allows us to continue our vital work to improve life for kidney patients and their families.

You, our supporters, are at the heart of everything we do we want giving to us to be a positive and rewarding experience. We have built our fundraising approach around this very principle.

Your support allows us to support more of the 7 million people who are affected by CKD. If you would like to donate, find out how to support us online, on the phone or by post.

How your donations help

Thanks to our wonderful supporters in 2025, we had a record year of fundraising that enabled us to make a greater direct impact on our beneficiaries than ever before. Just some of the highlights included:

  • Our total fundraised income for 2025 was over £4.3 million, a 30% increase from 2024!
  • £132,750 was donated to Kidney Care UK in memory of a loved one.
  • In 2025, we received £400,791 from gifts in Wills, a testament to the generosity of those who want their kindness to live on for future generations.
  • Our largest legacy in 2025 was worth over £150,000, a truly life-changing amount.
  • We launched the Kidney Care UK Lottery in July 2025 and in just six months we sold over 20,000 lottery tickets to 427 people.
  • Our wonderful community supporters contributed £275,086 – another record-breaking total for the charity. Supporters from across the UK took part in their own fundraising activities, including trekking between Tube stations wearing weighted vests, hosting bake sales, knitting and organising tribute nights, coffee mornings and cake sales
  • TCS London Marathon 2025 was a record-breaker for our 130 runners but also for us, with our largest team to date and the biggest-ever single fundraising day in our history. In total across all of our combined challenge events, a remarkable £762,435 was raised to help fund our work helping kidney patients and those affected by the condition across the UK.
  • In 2025 all of our existing corporate partners renewed their support of Kidney Care UK and through their generosity we were able to raise £2.25m, a 86% increase compared to 2024.
  • We secured £305,828 through Trusts and Foundations.

Our approach to fundraising

By registering with the Fundraising Regulator, Kidney Care UK has made a public promise to ensure all our fundraising activity is legal, open, honest and respectful.

Read our full Fundraising promise

We are active members of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising and are engaged with the Fundraising Preference Service.

  • We commit to communicating appropriately and sensitively when engaging with our supporters and the public.
  • We promise to make it easy for supporters to tell us how they would like us to contact them.
  • We keep our supporters' personal details safe, secure and confidential and will never sell or swap any details with any third party.

To ensure we manage our fundraising approach and keep it under review, we record any complaints and any failures to comply with the standards we have set and follow.

We continue to grow in confidence in delivering our fundraising as we have set out to do.