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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. […]

Fauré Requiem Concert – London, 16 November   We’re delighted to announce that we’re partnering with the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London for a Give a Kidney fundraiser. A special Fauré Requiem Concert will be given by Worcester College, Oxford on the evening of Wednesday 16th November at the Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy, London. […]

12 September, 2016 Celia Kent recently celebrated 101 donations – 100 of blood and one kidney! Celia began donating blood in 1963 and made her 100th donation at the West End Donor Centre last week. She donated a kidney to someone on the national transplant waiting list in 2015. Celia, who is 72 and from […]

7 September, 2016 Retired Social Worker, Kate Douglas, from St Andrews in Scotland became a non-directed donor at the age of 74. She was recently celebrated as Scot of the Week by No. 1 Magazine. You can read more about her here.

5 September, 2016   The Liverpool Echo talks to Paul Dixon, a non-directed donor who has gone on to sign up 6000 people to the organ donor register.  Find out more about Paul’s story and how he’s managed it here.  

We’re delighted to announce that we are partnering with the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London with a special Fauré Requiem Concert, being held on the evening of Wednesday 16 November at the Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy, London. It will mark a very special date for the charity – and half the ticket income will […]

An informal information evening for people interested in becoming a live donor is being hosted by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHSGGC) at Glasgow City Chambers on Monday, 5 September. Marc Clancy, consultant transplant surgeon, will host a panel of experts made up of donors, recipients, surgeons, nephrologists, and transplant co-ordinators. They will discuss the […]

14 July, 2016 Tonight’s ITV’s Real Stories with Ranvir Singh features the story of Julie Hughes and David Evans. Julie donated a kidney anonymously back in 2014. ITV was there to capture the special moment she met the man who received it for the first time!  It airs at 7.30pm across the ITV network. Big thanks […]

Another 9 non-directed (altruistic) kidney donations took place in the UK during March 2016 – making a total of 83 people people who donated in this way in the last financial year. Although, disappointingly, this is a slightly lower number of donors than came forward in the previous two years, the great news is that […]

One of the medical professionals closely involved in Give a Kidney has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Steering Committee member, Dr Adnan Sharif, a kidney consultant from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham has been nominated for the prestigious prize alongside colleagues from an international organisation set up to fight unethical organ transplants […]

19 April, 2016 Great piece in the Daily Mail about Blood Donor and non-directed kidney donor, Rodger Webster who may have saved up to 1500 people through his generous donations. Read it here

Would you like to help raise awareness of non-directed altruistic kidney donation and support Give a Kidney? Give a Kidney Ambassadors are people who are willing to work with the charity to increase public awareness of non-directed living kidney donation. This might be by engaging with the media, giving a presentation to a local group, […]

Do you own a vehicle that you want to sell or get rid of? Then please think about donating it to us through Giveacar! Giveacar raises money for UK charities by scrapping and selling old vehicles. They provide a nationwide FREE service which: Arranges the collection of the vehicle from your home for FREE; and […]

Is donating blood and organs a Christian duty? What do you think? Read the article here. 

74 year-old Jean Short talks to the Daily Mail about why she donated a kidney. Read it here Image:  Richard Cannon

Give a Kidney member John Fletcher was recently featured in the Independent talking about how donating a kidney has prompted him to launch an organ donation drive in Scotland. We hope to work closely with John and his colleagues going forwards. Read the piece here.

Siblings Kevin and Stefan Burke both decided to donate a kidney to a stranger. They tell their story in the Daily Mirror.

Pippa Bailey, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol and Honorary Renal Registrar, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, together with other colleagues has published a new report. The report looks into the attitudes of kidney recipients towards non-directed altruistic donation.  The findings are published in the link below: […]

The Northern Echo talks to a Doctor who donated her kidney to a stranger. Read it here.

Chairman of Give a Kidney, Chris Burns-Cox, recently met with Mike Benton, the man who received his kidney, for a catch up. Channel 5 News was there to report:  

The Telegraph talks to Joanna Ewing about why she decided to donate one of her healthy kidneys to someone she didn’t know. Read it here PHOTO:Andrew Fox (The Telegraph)

Calling themselves ‘The Squeezed Oranges’, a group of eight pensioners all of whom have donated a kidney in the last three years, they were guests at a lunch party given by one of them at the Walberton home of Cherry Williams, 68, who gave her kidney in 2014. Also attending were Judi McGetrick, 68, and […]