Purpose & Objectives

The Committee has the following powers:

To give financial support to kidney patients, where necessary and always with complete confidentiality.

To purchase equipment for the benefit and/or treatment of kidney patients.

To provide holiday accommodation to meet the needs of kidney patients, their families and carers.

To obtain, collect, receive and accept moneys and funds through donations, legacies, grants, gifts of any description, including property, and through any other lawful means to fund the furtherance of the objects of the Association.

To procure and to disseminate information concerning kidney diseases and treatments.

To arrange public meetings, lectures and/or exhibitions.

To support the activities of the National Kidney Federation and other fund raising organisations whose activities are considered by us to be in the interests of kidney patients in the care of the Oxford Renal and Transplant Units.

The Association shall draw members from the area served by the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital N.H.S. trust and its successors (Oxon., Northants., Bucks., Berks. and parts of Wilts. and Glos.) It shall also include those areas where patients from fringe counties have been recommended to attend the Churchill Hospital by medical advisors.

To do all such other lawful things as are necessary for the achievement of the Objects.