Common questions about The British Kidney Patient Association's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The British Kidney Patient Association a good charity? +
The British Kidney Patient Association scores 70 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 83% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The British Kidney Patient Association a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The British Kidney Patient Association as a registered charity (charity number 270288). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=270288&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The British Kidney Patient Association's charity number? +
The British Kidney Patient Association's charity number is 270288. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The British Kidney Patient Association's charity rating? +
The British Kidney Patient Association scores 70 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The British Kidney Patient Association have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The British Kidney Patient Association. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The British Kidney Patient Association? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 83% of The British Kidney Patient Association's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The British Kidney Patient Association's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 17% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 20% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The British Kidney Patient Association. The British Kidney Patient Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The British Kidney Patient Association receive? +
The British Kidney Patient Association reported £4.1m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The British Kidney Patient Association's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-08-06). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The British Kidney Patient Association based? +
The British Kidney Patient Association's registered contact address is in Guildford (GU34 1EF). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is The British Kidney Patient Association's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The British Kidney Patient Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does The British Kidney Patient Association's money come from? +
The British Kidney Patient Association reported £5m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2.6m (53%), other income £2.2m (45%), charitable activities £1.7m (33%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £401k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The British Kidney Patient Association? +
The register records The British Kidney Patient Association as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are The British Kidney Patient Association's trustees paid? +
The British Kidney Patient Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The British Kidney Patient Association previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for The British Kidney Patient Association: B K P a; The Silver Lining Appeal of the British Kidney Patient Association.
When was The British Kidney Patient Association registered as a charity? +
The British Kidney Patient Association was entered on the register on 4 November 1975. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 01228114).
How does CharityCompare score The British Kidney Patient Association? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The British Kidney Patient Association's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The British Kidney Patient Association's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.