We support local kidney patients who have irreversible or chronic kidney disease, often referred to as CKD. They have life-threatening kidney failure and depend on either dialysis or a kidney transplant for survival.

We are local because we support patients going to the Newcastle Hospitals renal units at the Freeman and RVI. We are the only charity giving this direct support.

We give direct support in several ways. These include:

In addition we give indirect support by:

We do not have a subscription but depend on both donations and fund raising to finance our activities.

The TKPA is also affiliated to the National Kidney Federation. The NKF send out a magazine called Kidney Life and does a lot of work to promote the development of national renal services.