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Funraising Tours is organising the Transplant Tour, a 500-mile cycle ride from Edinburgh to Oxford, to raise funds for Give a Kidney.

In this webinar we will be going right back to the basics of living kidney donation. Our panel, made up of Give a Kidney Trustees, will be answering all those questions you wanted to ask but were afraid to!

We are excited to announce that our first webinar of 2023 will be on the fascinating subject of ethical issues in transplantation. The FREE webinar will take place on Tuesday 24 January at 7.15pm.

On the last day of #organdonationweek Giles, a retired GP, ran the challenging 26 miles of the London Marathon and raised an amazing £841.14 for Give a Kidney. Funds like these help our small charity continue with activities such as our free webinars.

Give a Kidney Trustee, Chris has the honour of being the first Batonbearer at the Queen’s Baton Relay on Friday (22 Jul). Birmingham is staging the 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay – an epic journey across the Commonwealth, with The Queen’s Baton visiting all 72 nations and territories.

We’re pleased to announce our next webinar in the Winter Webinars 2021/22 series which is a fascinating insight into the application of robotics in surgery.

We are delighted to welcome three new members to our Trustees and an additional new Steering Committee member.

From 20 May 2020, the law around deceased organ donation in England has changed. As in Wales, all adults in England are now considered to have agreed to be an organ donor when they die unless they have recorded a decision not to donate or are in one of the excluded groups. This is commonly […]

This September non-directed kidney donor, Ray Duffy, I and his good friends Glenn (of Glenn Gordon Mountaineering) and Neil Busby (of Climb Caledonia Ireland) climbed the iconic Scottish sea stack, The Old Man of Hoy.  At night. The climb was special for Glenn as in January 2018 he had a bad climbing accident and was […]

Just before Christmas 2018, we were delighted to help facilitate some press coverage for a non-directed donor meeting her recipient for the first time.   Enormous thanks to Teresa Dobson (donor), Joe Salvatore (recipient of Teresa’s kidney) and Joe’s daughter Carmel Dalby who donated onwards as part of a chain, for allowing us to be there […]

Here’s a heart-warming ITV piece about a rather special man, Nicholas Crace, who donated a kidney to a stranger at 82, celebrating his 90th birthday with fellow kidney donors. Congratulations Nicholas – you have inspired many other donors through your story. Watch it here

Interesting and informed piece from The Guardian about the impact of the UK Kidney Sharing Scheme and the impact of non-directed kidney donors as ‘gamechangers’. Read more here Re

The BOUnD study is inviting all potential kidney donors in the UK to share their experience of the donation process. If you have considered being a donor and have made contact with a transplant professional or a transplant centre, the study team would like to hear from you – whether or not your donation is […]

We are enormously saddened to share news of the passing of our great friend and colleague Dr Chris Burns-Cox on 29 June, 2018. Chris was one of the founding members of Give a Kidney and has remained a driving force and a trustee of the charity throughout its existence. His incomparable passion, enthusiasm and his […]

Give a Kidney and Kidney Care UK are to join forces to present a special Living Donation Information event at the Verulamium Museum in St Albans on Wednesday 18 July at 7pm. We are encouraging local residents to attend to find out ore about how lives can be transformed by donating a kidney as a […]

Merseyside Kidney Donor celebrates World Kidney Day with incredible Organ Donor Register achievement LISTEN TO PAUL ON BBC RADIO MERSEYSIDE (about 42 minutes into the programme) here. Paul Dixon, a Merseyside man who donated one of his kidneys to a stranger on his 65th birthday, is celebrating World Kidney Day (8 March) and the fifth […]

New statistics from NHSBT show that at end of December 2017, 634 people in the UK had donated a kidney as a non-directed altruistic donor (86 in 2017 alone).  More than 120 of these donors facilitated chains, enabling 2 or 3 transplants to take place which may not otherwise have been possible. Congratulations and thank […]

Kay Mason is determined not to be labelled as extraordinary but the 73-year-old grandmother from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, acknowledges she is marking a rather unusual anniversary this year. This summer Kay is celebrating the 10th anniversary of donating one of her kidneys to a complete stranger. Kay was the very first person in the […]

Billericay’s Stock Brook Manor Golf Club Seniors last year raised more than £4000 for Give a Kidney. As is tradition, each year, the Captain selects a charity for the club to fundraise for throughout the year. 2016 captain, Shoky Visram (65) selected this charity after receiving a kidney from his daughter in 2013. He explains: […]

Is it fair to find your own kidney donor on the internet? UK patients who need new organs are using social media to advertise their plight and appeal directly for a Good Samaritan who’s willing to share their spare kidney with a stranger.  Listen here.

We’re pleased and delighted to have supported NHS Blood and Transplant in the creation of suite of new information films around living donation – many thanks to all the members who took part and shared their experiences. We hope these will support people who might be considering donating a kidney to someone they love or […]

The end-of-year statistics from NHSBT show that in 2016, 85 non-directed donors helped to create 126 kidney transplants (59 people donated directly to someone on the waiting list and 26 into long or short altruistic donor chains.) The figures are slightly down on 2015, where there were more donors, however, the numbers of transplants triggered […]

Kidney donors, Tracey Joliffe and Clare Bolitho along with recipients of donated organs talk to Victoria Derbyshire about the importance of organ donation and share their stories. It begins at about 52 minutes, with a further slot at around 1hr 45 minutes into the piece. Thanks to all who participated. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b088sfzc/victoria-derbyshire-17012017

Listen online BBC World Service’s The Why Factor on organ donation featuring Give a Kidney founder Nicholas Evans and non-directed donor Peter Pope. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04bygvr  

The total of number of non-directed kidney donors in the UK is now 517. Well done and congratulations to all involved.  

21 September, 2016 Today, with NHS Blood and Transplant, we’re officially announcing the 500th non-directed donation in the UK has taken place. From us to all of the 500 and to the medical teams who make non-directed donation possible we say THANK YOU and we wish the 500 recipients and their donors on-going good health. […]