Kidney Care UK - 2018 Impact Report
As the UK’s leading kidney patient support charity, we are here to help and provide a much needed safety net for kidney patients and their families. Whilst we can’t cover all the work accomplished in 2018 in one publication, it is incredibly heartwarming to hear directly from those who have benefitted from our emotional, financial and practical support services or who are supporting the charity through fundraising efforts.
As the UK’s leading kidney patient support charity, we are here to help and provide a much needed safety net for kidney patients and their families. Whilst we can’t cover all the work accomplished in 2018 in one publication, it is incredibly heartwarming to hear directly from those who have benefitted from our emotional, financial and practical support services or who are supporting the charity through fundraising efforts.
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Overview: How we helped<br />
Overview: How we helped<br />
Making a difference<br />
Improving lives every day<br />
We spent over<br />
£2.4<br />
million<br />
Supporting more than<br />
100<br />
patients<br />
Our website helped<br />
every week<br />
A diagnosis of kidney disease can have a devastating impact on both<br />
patients and their loved ones, affecting health, emotional wellbeing,<br />
work, finances, relationships and lifestyle.<br />
148,645<br />
people<br />
We assisted<br />
As the leading kidney patient support charity in the <strong>UK</strong> we work hard to improve the lives<br />
of kidney patients so that they can live their lives to the full. Over the past year we have:<br />
• Provided personal advice and guidance to more patients,<br />
ensuring they have access to high quality information and<br />
representation than ever before<br />
1,533<br />
individual patients<br />
with support grants<br />
• Continued to offer free renal counselling support and reached<br />
more patients in areas where the provision is lacking<br />
• Delivered a responsive and flexible grants programme to<br />
support individual patients in financial difficulty<br />
• Helped struggling patients and their loved ones to have a<br />
much-needed holiday or respite break<br />
• Responded to local needs by funding innovative projects<br />
and patient-centred service improvements as well as seed<br />
funding critical support roles<br />
• Built strong partnerships and worked in collaboration with<br />
others to deliver sustainable improvements in care services<br />
• Engaged with policy and decision makers at local, regional<br />
and national level to ensure patient views are represented<br />
and reflected in policies that affect them<br />
We provided<br />
2,766<br />
patients with counselling<br />
advice and advocacy<br />
An amazing<br />
2,044<br />
individuals supported<br />
us with acts of giving<br />
We invested<br />
£741,282<br />
on care and service improvements,<br />
research and equipment<br />
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