Trustees’ Annual Report for the period
From 29.9.24 To 28.9.25 2025
Charity name: Kernow Kidney Patient Association
Charity registration number:1205096
Objectives and Activities
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| SORP reference | ||
| Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document |
Para 1.17 | This charity has been formed by kidney patents in Cornwall for the beneft of kidney patents and their carers in Cornwall. The charity objectves are: (A) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG KIDNEY PATIENTS AND THEIR CARERS OR FAMILIES ACROSS CORNWALL BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE AND INFORMATION IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT (B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING KIDNEY DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENTS, INCLUDING THE IMPORTANCE OF ORGAN DONATION. |
| Summary of the main actvites in relaton to those purposes for the public beneft, in partcular, the actvites, projects or services identfed in the accounts. |
Para 1.17 and 1.19 |
This annual report is dedicated to Mr Mike Savage, the Chair of Kernow Kidney Patent Associaton, who helped to establish the charity and who worked trelessly to support it. Sadly, he passed away during the year at a huge loss to his family, friends and the charity itself. All remaining trustees are determined to ensure the charity contnues to grow and develop and to build on the work of Mike. He and his family are in our thoughts. Trustees have worked hard this year to consolidate the charity during its second year of operaton. Trustees are very grateful for support from the patents, their families and the wider community, partcularly groups such as Showtme Academy, St Stythians Male Voice Choir and The Tiger Tales who have all helped the associaton to fundraise and to raise the profle of the charity in the community. In additon, trustees are grateful for the support from the renal team at Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust who contnue to support the associaton and help disseminate informaton from the charity to patents. Key operatonal actvites have focused on |
| reviewing policies and procedures during our second year of operaton and on developing the profle of the charity, partcularly within the hospital and with patents. This has led to an increase in requests for informaton and also an increase in donatons from the families of patents. Sadly, this has included gifs following bereavements and trustees would like to express our sincere sympathy to the families of those involved. Fundraising has been developing throughout the year and the charity remains secure for the next fnancial year. Trustees have developed a restricted fund that contains ringfenced funds in order to contribute to larger scale refurbishment work for patent comfort within the renal unit. The charity recognises that patents who have repeat visits over many hours need to be more comfortable and ideally, we wish to contribute to refurbishment work to help secure this. Of partcular patent interest is the purchasing of televisions and more comfortable seatng for the use of patents. Work remains ongoing to discuss details of this with the hospital. Trustees are anxious that this gathers pace during the next year of operaton. In additon, and with partcular thanks to our Chair at the tme, Mike Savage, the charity has extended links to the Natonal Kidney Federaton (NKF). The charity has been delighted to use informaton, advice and guidance packs from NKF and next year a key priority will be to try to improve patent informaton in GP practces. A gap in informaton for patents at Stage 3 has been identfed and we hope that the charity may be able to provide those patents with beter access to informaton and guidance. Development of the membership of the Board will remain a priority in 2025-6. |
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| Statement confrming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public beneft |
Para 1.18 | As trustees we can confrm that we have at all tmes tried to follow the public beneft guidance as outlined by the Charity Commission. |
Additional information
| Additonal informaton | Additonal informaton | Additonal informaton |
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| SORP reference | ||
| Policy on grant making | Para 1.38 | Trustees have agreed a policy on grantng funding. Funding is conditonal on: Meetng the objectves of the charity Ensuring there is sufcient funding held in the charity to cover essental costs such as insurance, venue costs for meetngs and |
| general administraton of the charity. No staf are employed by the charity and there are no capital costs. Grants are made with Trustee approval and the policy for grant making is reviewed on an annual basis. |
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| Contributon made by volunteers | Para 1.38 | Trustees acknowledge that the charity could not run without the help and support of volunteers. They would like to thank everyone who has helped throughout the year. |
| Other | Trustees have been very grateful throughout this period for the help and support they have received from the renal team and Voluntary Services at Treliske hospital and from patent volunteers who are already engaging with the charity. All trustees involved this year have also worked extremely hard, despite being patents or carers themselves. As a group, trustees are thankful for everyone involved- including two external organisatons, the Natonal Kidney Federaton and Kidney Care UK who have both helped with ongoing support and advice. |
Achievements and Performance
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| Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identfying the diference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its benefciaries and any wider benefts to society as a whole. |
Para 1.20 | Key actvites and achievements have included: Ensuring the charity contnues to be efectve, with ongoing policy review and development, appropriate banking systems and fnancial reportng and a focus on compliance with, for example, safeguarding, health and safety, data protecton and equality and diversity. Trustee meetngs have been held regularly with agreed minutes and a strategic plan is in place in order to drive forward the work of the charity. We believe the charity to be on a sound footng to enter its third year of operaton. The charity has developed partnership working with the renal team and are beginning to hold joint meetngs for patents and carers that focus on improving outcomes for patents and on ofering support for patents and carers. The charity now has a mailing list of over 70 patents . The charity is developing its profle within the community and has been able to advance knowledge of kidney disease within the wider public by, for example, atending informaton sessions at a local conference and charity awareness raising day, we also held a stall at the hospital on World Kidney Day . Fundraising has been supported at these |
events and in particular the charity has been fortunate to receive support from a local St Stythians Male Voice Choir, Rotary Club and Showtime Academy and The Tiger Tales group - all have organised events for the charity or sponsored the charity. This has enabled us to fundraise to pay for our central costs such as venue hire and insurances and allows us to start making donations and to grow a significant fund for refurbishment work in the renal unit which should improve the patient experience at the local hospital. This however, will be a long term project as this work will be done in conjunction with the local hospital trust. We will retain some contingency for the year 2025-26 in order that we know the public liability insurances are covered and we are able to run our meetings.
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
| Performance of fundraising actvites against objectves set |
Para 1.41 | Due to donatons following the sad loss of some patents, the charity has been able to improve fundraising this year. The charity is frustrated that working with the hospital to spend money on improving patent comfort is at tmes a lengthy and involved process. Money has been ringfenced for improvement work and trustees are prioritsing trying to utlise the money in appropriate ways as soon aspossible,. |
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| Other |
Financial Review
| Review of the charity’s fnancial positon at the end of theperiod |
Para 1.21 | |
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| Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves statng why theyare held |
Para 1.22 | It has been agreed that at present reserves of £500 are held in order to fnance the insurance and running costs, such as room hire, for 2025-26. |
| Amount of reserves held | Para 1.22 | £500 |
| Reasons for holdingzero reserves | Para 1.22 | |
| Details of fund materially in defcit |
Para 1.24 | |
| Explanaton of any uncertaintes about the charity contnuing as a going concern |
Para 1.23 | We believe the charity should be in a strong positon to enter its third year. However, the charity will require ongoing volunteers, partcularly those willing to be trustees, in order to be sustainable in the future. As a patent organisaton the charity has sufered from poor health of trustees and it will be important moving forward that contngencies are in place for work such as banking, in order that the charity contnues to run smoothly even if a trustee is incapacitated. |
Structure, Governance and Management
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| Type of governing document (trust deed,royal charter) |
Para 1.25 | The charity has a consttuton based on the Charity Commission template 2023. |
| How is the charity consttuted? (e.g unincorporated associaton, CIO) |
Para 1.25 | The charity has been established as a Charitable Incorporated Organisaton |
| Trustee selecton methods including details of any consttutonal provisions e.g. electon to post or name of any person or body enttled to appoint one or more trustees |
Para 1.25 | Trustees may be appointed following electon at the Annual General Meetng or a properly consttuted meetng of Trustees. |
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| Policies and procedures adopted for the inducton and training of trustees |
Para 1.51 | New Trustees will receive an informaton pack with policies and procedures and the consttuton. In additon, due to the fact trustees may be visitng the hospital and may be face to face with patents, it has been agreed that Trustees will also register with the hospital Voluntary Service team, this includes receiving their DBS check and inducton training with the hospital. |
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| The charity’s organisatonal structure and any wider network with which the charity works |
Para 1.51 | The charity is very pleased to have been accepted as an afliate organisaton of the Natonal Kidney Federaton. This enttles the charity to be involved at a natonal level with this specialist organisaton. We also receive advice and guidance from Kidney Care UK. |
| Relatonship with any related partes |
Para 1.51 | Two trustees are related. Both are aware of any confict of interest and our policy relatng to this. This would be declared at meetngs. |
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Reference and Administrative details
| Charityname | Kernow KidneyPatent Associaton |
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| Other name the charityuses | - |
| Registered charitynumber | 1205096 |
| Charity’s principal address | Hill Crest Coverack Bridges Helston Cornwall TR13 0LX |
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Ofce (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) enttled to appoint trustee(if any) |
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| Mike Savage | Chair | October 2024 – July 2025 | Trustees | |
| Sharon Clarke | Treasurer | |||
| Sophia Clarke | Social Media | |||
| Karen Richardson | Assistant Secretary | |||
| Carol Kimberley | Secretary | |||
Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
Director name N/A
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
| Trustee name | Dates acted if not for wholeyear | |
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Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others
Description of the assets held in N/A this capacity Name and objects of the charity N/A on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe N/A custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
Additional information (optional)
Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
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Name Address |
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| Name of chief executve or names of senior staf members (Optonal informaton) |
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Exemptions from disclosure
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
N/A
Other optional information N/A
Declarations
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Full name(s) Carol Kimberley Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Secretary etc) Date 7.11.25
| Charity Name | No (if any) | ||
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| Kernow Kidney Patient Association | 1205096 | ||
| Receipts andpayments accounts | CC16a | ||
| 29.9.24 Period start date For the period from |
28.9.25 Period end date To |
Section A Receipts and payments
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 8,010 2,046 - - - - - 10,056 - - - 10,056 327 728 - - - - - - - 1,055 - - - 1,055 9,001 - 2,201 11,202 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - 1,625 - - - - - - 1,625 - - - 1,625 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1,625 - - 1,625 |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ 8,010 1,625 2,046 - - - - - 11,681 - - - 11,681 327 728 - - - - - - - 1,055 - - - 1,055 10,626 |
Total funds to the nearest £ 8,010 1,625 2,046 - - - - - 11,681 - - - 11,681 327 728 - - - - - - - 1,055 - - - 1,055 10,626 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Legacydonations,unrestricted | 8,010 | - - - - - - - - - |
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| Legacy,restricted | 1,625 | - | ||||
| Fundraisingactivity/donations | 2,046 | 2,046 | - | |||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
10,056 |
11,681 | - | |||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| - | 11,681 | - | ||||
| Governance costs eginsurance | 327 | - - - - - - - - - - |
327 | - | ||
| Charitable activities | 728 | 728 | - | |||
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| **Sub total ** | 1,055 | 1,055 | - | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| - | 1,055 | - | ||||
| 9,001 | 1,625 | - | 10,626 | - | ||
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| 2,201 | - | 2,201 | - | |||
| 11,202 | 1,625 | - | 12,827 | - |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | |
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| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets |
S Clarke Signature C Kimberley - Details Details - legacies fubdraising activity year end carry forward Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) - Details - |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 2,765 1,625 2,046 - 2,201 - 5,957 6,870 Agreement Error Agreement Error Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Carol Kimberley |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| C Kimberley | Carol Kimberley | 16.1.26 | |
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
19/01/2026
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