Charities - kidneys, liver and digestive

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Beating Bowel Cancer

Address: Legacy Officer, Room 111, Harlequin House, 7 High Street, Teddington TW11 8EE

Telephone: 020 8973 0000

Fax:

Email:

legacy@beatingbowelcancer.org

Website:

www.beatingbowelcancer.org

Charity number: 1063614 (England & Wales)

Bowel cancer is the UK’s second biggest cause of cancer deaths. Of the 38,600 people diagnosed every year, more than half of these are with advanced cancer when it is often too late. However, if caught in time, 90% of cases can be treated successfully.
Beating Bowel Cancer saves lives by increasing awareness of bowel cancer and the need for early diagnosis. They charity promotes equal access to treatment and provides effective support for everyone affected.

IA (The ileostomy and internal pouch Support Group)

Address: Peverill House, 1-5 Mill Road, Ballyclare, Co Antrim BT39 9DR

Telephone: 0800 0184 724

Fax: 028 9332 4606

Email:

info@iasupport.org

Website:

www.iasupport.org

Charity number: 234472 (England & Wales)

IA is a patient support group run by and for people with ileostomies and ileo-anal pouches.

Pancreatic Cancer UK

Address: No.1 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5NQ

Telephone: 0203 177 1686

Fax:

Email:

enquiries@pancreaticcancer.org.uk

Website:

www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk

Charity number: 1112708 (England & Wales)

Pancreatic cancer is overlooked and underfunded. Survival rates are amongst the worst of any cancer with an average life-expectancy of 4-6 months after diagnosis. 5 year survival rates are lower than 3%.

Bowel and Cancer Research

Address: Centre for Academic Surgery, 3rd Floor Alexandra Wing, The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB

Telephone: 020 7882 8749

Fax:

Email:

Deborah@bowelcancerresearch.org

Website:

www.bowelcancerresearch.org

Charity number: 1119105 (England & Wales)

Bowel diseases, including cancer, affect hundreds of thousands of people a year, yet even in today’s more open society, they are rarely discussed; a taboo still exists which leaves many thousands suffering in silence. In cases where disease leads to life with a colostomy (bag), this can be extremely distressing and isolating.

British Kidney Patient Association

Address: 3 The Windmills, St Mary’s Close, Turk Street, Alton GU34 1EF

Telephone: 01420 541424

Fax: 01420 89438

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Website:

www.britishkidney-pa.co.uk

Charity number: 270288 (England & Wales)

The British Kidney Patient Association is a well established charity working to improve the quality of life for adults and children with chronic kidney disease.

We provide support, information and financial assistance to patients and families at any stage of their disease – whether it’s needed just after receiving a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease or following kidney failure, when dialysis or transplantation is necessary.

British Renal Society

Address: 26 Oriental Road Woking, Surrey GU22 7AW

Telephone: 01483 764114

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Website:

http://www.britishrenal.org

Charity number: 1091024 (England & Wales)

Research for Renal - Improving lives through kidney research by the healthcare team

A lot can be done in four hours… a trip to the garden centre to stock up on next season’s plants, a trip to the shops to stock up on next season’s clothes! Or perhaps a coffee with some friends at the local cafe or a trip to the zoo with the children?
If you’re somebody hooked up to a kidney dialysis machine for fours four hours a day, three to four days of the week, every week of the year, planning your life takes on a whole new meaning. There are around 50,000 people in the UK needing dialysis or a kidney transplant – with 7,000 new patients joining this list each year. And these are the people at the tip of the ice-berg – beneath the surface there are over 2 million more with moderate to severe kidney disease.

Crohn’s in Childhood Research Association

Address: Parkgate House, 356 West Barnes Lane, Motspur Park, Surrey KT3 6NB

Telephone: 020 8949 6209

Fax: 020 8942 2044

Email:

support@cicra.org

Website:

www.cicra.org

Charity number: 278212 (England & Wales), SC040700 (Scotland)

Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, known collectively as inflammatory bowel disease, are chronic debilitating illnesses involving severe inflammation of the digestive tract. The incidence of Crohn’s Disease in children has increased dramatically over the past few years but to date there is no known cause or cure.

Cystic Fibrosis Trust

Address: 11 London Road. Bromley, Kent, England BR1 1BY

Telephone: 020 8464 7211

Fax: 020 8313 0472

Email:

legacies@cft.org.uk

Website:

www.cftrust.org.uk

Charity number: 1079049 (England and Wales), SC40196 (Scotland)

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is one of the UK’s most common life threatening inherited diseases, for which there is no cure. Cystic Fibrosis affects the internal organs, and can lead to lung damage, malnutrition, diabetes, liver disease, and brittle bones.

1 in 25 of us carries the faulty gene that causes Cystic Fibrosis, usually without knowing it.
There are over 9,000 people in the UK with Cystic Fibrosis. Each week five babies are born with CF and two more young lives are lost. Currently half of those with CF will live past 41 years, although the outlook for babies born today is brighter.

Foundation for Liver Research, The

Address: The Institute of Hepatology, Harold Samuel House, 69-75 Chenies Mews, London WC1E 6HX

Telephone: 020 7255 9830

Fax: 020 7380 0405

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Website:

www.liver-research.org.uk

Charity number: 268211/1134579 (England & Wales)

The Foundation for Liver Research funds innovative research programmes to address the challenges of liver disease.

Kidney Research Fund Northern Counties

Address: Department of Renal Medicine, Freeman Hospital, High Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN

Telephone: 0191 213 7636

Fax: 0191 223 1233

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Website:

www.nckrf.org.uk

Charity number: 700037 (England & Wales)

The Northern Counties Kidney Research Fund was established in 1972 to support work for kidney transplant and dialysis patients in the North of England. Research by scientists, physicians and surgeons is funded. There are currently six full time posts in Newcastle which the fund has paid for.

Kidney Research UK

Address: Nene Hall, Lynch Wood Park, Peterborough, PE2 6FZ

Telephone: 0800 021 7707

Fax: 08456 047211

Email:

legacies@kidneyresearchuk.org

Website:

http://www.kidneyresearchuk.org/legacy

Charity number: 252892 (England & Wales), SC039245 (Scotland)

Right now, the lives of over three million people in the UK are threatened by chronic kidney disease. No one knows who or when kidney disease may strike next. It could be any one of us, a loved one or a friend, and can mean a lifetime of dialysis or a transplant.

Kidney Wales Foundation

Address: 1 Radnor Court, 256 Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff CF5 1GZ

Telephone: (029) 2034 3940

Fax:

Email:

info@kidneywales.com

Website:

http://www.kidneywales.com

Charity number: 700396 (England & Wales)

The Kidney Wales Foundation leads the way in the fight against kidney disease. Kidney Wales invests in renal research, patient care and well-being, and actively works with, and on behalf of kidney patients and their families across Wales.

Kids Kidney Research

Address: 10 Beechwood, Southwater, Horsham, West Sussex RH13 9JU

Telephone: 01403 732291

Fax:

Email:

paul@kidskidneyresearch.org

Website:

http://www.kidskidneyresearch.org

Charity number: 266630 (England and Wales)

We exist to fund vital kidney research for babies and children at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. We also fund renal projects nationwide under the guidance of the British Association for Paediatric Nephrology.

Liver Cancer Surgery Appeal

Address: The Old Farm House, Epsom Road, Merrow, Surrey GU4 7AB

Telephone: 01483 546321

Fax: 01483 453698

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Website:

www.liver.org.uk

Charity number: 1061703 (England and Wales)

The Liver Cancer Surgery Appeal is a registered charity independent of the NHS and it depends upon public support to meet the needs of people with secondary liver cancer who require surgery and treatment.

National Kidney Federation

Address: The Point, Coach Road, Shireoaks, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S81 8BW

Telephone: 0845 601 02 09

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Website:

www.kidney.org.uk

Charity number: 1106735 (England & Wales)

The National Kidney Federation is the national kidney charity run by kidney patients for kidney patients.

St Peter’s Trust - For Kidney, Bladder & Prostate Research

Address: South House A-5 (LSG), Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG

Telephone: 020 7443 9388

Fax:

Email:

spt@ucl.ac.uk

Website:

www.stpeterstrust.org.uk

Charity number: 261224 (England & Wales)

St Peter’s Trust for Kidney, Bladder & Prostate Research has made a unique contribution to understanding disease and developing novel methods of treatment since 1970, working closely with the Urology and Nephrology Centres at UCL Medical School, London, and its associated hospitals, supporting scientific breakthroughs which have benefited potentially millions of people.