Prepared for National Kidney Federation by Adrian Taylor, 2026-10-05. If you work there and would rather this page came down, say so and it comes down.

National Kidney Federation: what the records show, and what we could do together

Adrian Taylor runs Charity in a Box, after twenty years working in charities and public services. About Adrian.

1. What you say, and where we read it

We read your website (National Kidney Federation) and your public channels.

Your channels: youtube (read); x (closed to readers, not read); linkedin (closed to readers, not read); facebook (closed to readers, not read); instagram (closed to readers, not read).

2. Kidney patients, from outside

29 charities are in the field by name or membership. 405 other charities say in their own latest report that they serve the same people.

Kidney patients29 charities

Health272

Education/training187

General charitable purposes173

Disability117

Poverty relief99

Economic/community developme…52

Overseas aid49

Arts, culture, heritage, sci…48

Other purposes48

Environment38

Hospice care10

Veterans9

Legal help5

the fieldother charities naming its people, by register purposeof those, in another field on this site

Your members against the rest of the field

Measure	Members	Rest of the field
Fragile (share)	18%	22%
Government-dependent (share)	0%	0%
Reserves, months (median)	–	13
Income change over returns, % (median)	113	49
Report names the people (share)	100%	100%

Areas with little or no presence of your network, those with the most residents on low incomes first: Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham, Barking and Dagenham, Blackpool, Enfield, Blackburn with Darwen, Brent, Luton, Oldham.

The full page for your field is here.

Researchers who studied how charities support people with dementia across the United Kingdom concluded:

“National and local data sources could help charities and commissioners begin to identify inequalities of provision.”
Mayrhofer, Goodman, Lafortune, Smeeton, Littlechild, Shora and Bunn, Voluntary Sector Review, first published 2021. Read the paper.

This page is that view for your field.

3. Sample campaign

Three posts in your voice from the figures above, each with its picture, ready to use. Every figure is from public information and no charity is named.

405 other charities serve kidney patients's people

Bluesky / X: 405 charities outside kidney patients say in their own reports that they serve the same people, against 29 in the field. Who they are, by what they do: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/national-kidney-federation.html

LinkedIn: 405 charities outside kidney patients say in their own reports that they serve the same people, against 29 in the field. Who they are, by what they do: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/national-kidney-federation.html

Built from public information; no charity is named.

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Bluesky / X: 18% of the network's members show under three months' reserves or three years of deficits, against 22% of the rest of the field. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/national-kidney-federation.html

LinkedIn: 18% of the network's members show under three months' reserves or three years of deficits, against 22% of the rest of the field. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/national-kidney-federation.html

Built from public information; no charity is named.

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Bluesky / X: 75 of England's 152 county and unitary areas have little or no presence of the network for the people counted there; Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham first. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/national-kidney-federation.html

LinkedIn: 75 of England's 152 county and unitary areas have little or no presence of the network for the people counted there; Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham first. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/national-kidney-federation.html

Built from public information; no charity is named.

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4. What working together looks like

	What you get	What it costs
The field report	What your field can't see from inside it: the page on our site, in full, refreshed each quarter.	£1,500, £4,000 or £9,000 a year, by your income band, never negotiated
The members' licence	Each of your members gets its own view: where it stands beside the rest of the field, what is thin in its area, who else is at work there.	included in the year
A campaign from the findings	Posts and pictures in your voice from your field's own figures, for your channels.	£250 a month

The first month: a twenty-minute call, your page in full within a week, and the first campaign posts the week after. Prices are set by income band from the public register and are the same for everyone in the band.

5. How to say yes

Reply to the email with a day that suits, call or text Adrian on the number in the email (it is on the Contact page too), or write to adrian@charityinabox.uk.

What this can and cannot say. These are counts over groups of charities and places from their own returns and reports and from national statistics. They do not rank any charity, name any, or say why. A thin field is one where the known network is thin for the people counted here, not one where nobody is helped.

Built from public information: the Charity Commission for England and Wales register and the annual reports charities file with it (OGL v3.0); Census 2021 (ONS); the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); the Claimant Count (ONS). Privacy.