The time for change is now. Step up.
It’s simple. £3 million towards better treatments. Three years to achieve it. Not tomorrow. Not next year. It starts now.
Why we need your help.
Kidney disease treatments are tough.
Imagine needing to go to hospital three times a week for four-hour dialysis sessions. Your life depends on it. Or being told your transplant has failed a week after the operation. A transplant you’ve waited years for. We don’t want patients to still be going through this in 20 years’ time. The change needs to start now.
850 million people worldwide have kidney disease.
In the UK, 20 people develop kidney failure every day and need dialysis or a transplant to stay alive.
It’s not a disease that affects a small number of people. Kidney disease has become a public health emergency in the UK and is costing the UK economy £7 billion a year, costs which could rise to £13.9 billion in just ten years.
Kidney disease is a really big deal. But it’s not taken seriously enough. Not enough research is happening. And it’s not happening fast enough. This is where you come in. Your donation today will make a huge difference to patients’ lives.

“As soon as they put the neck line in I knew I wasn’t going back to work. My boss said there was no way I could get insurance to be on a roof.”
Lee Farrington, 46
What we can do together.
- We want transplants to last longer. Patients don’t need the worry of wondering if or when theirs will fail. They should be for life.
- We want to reduce the burden of treatment and improve patients’ quality of life. Treatments are incredibly disruptive and can make people feel very unwell. But this can be improved through research into better medical solutions.
- We want everyone to have equal access to treatments and care. 32% of people on the waiting list for a kidney transplant are from minority ethnic backgrounds. This isn’t good enough.
How your donation can transform treatments
Your donations will go to crucial research into new and better treatments for kidney disease.
As part of the ADMIRE study ‘Assessing Donor kidneys and Monitoring Transplant REcipients’, Dr Maria Kaisar and her team at the University of Oxford will analyse blood samples from donors to develop a mathematical model to predict how well a donor kidney will function after transplant.
The Oxford team, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Nottingham and University College London, will also develop MRI scanning methods to assess donor organs before and after transplant. This study could help doctors accurately assess kidneys, transplant only the best and identify suitable kidneys from donors previously deemed too high risk.