by Ali Lawrence | Mar 15, 2023 | Events, News, Volunteering
We’d like to invite you to join us for our 2023 Annual General Meeting, next Tuesday, 21st March at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. Why not come along and meet us and fellow kidney patients, volunteers, family members, carers and renal staff, we’d love... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Mar 9, 2023 | Events, News, Organ Donation, People Stories, World Kidney Day
Pictures courtesy of Tegan and Tom Watson. Tegan Watson from Hitchin in Hertfordshire has described the life changing moment she donated her kidney to her brother Tom as a living donor to help raise awareness on World Kidney Day, 9 March 2023. 27 year-old Tom... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Mar 8, 2023 | BNI, Donations, Uncategorized, World Kidney Day
We’d like to give a shout out to Mark Whiffen of Marlin Design Ltd for his kind donation to LAKPA. Mark is a fellow member at BNI Endeavour (Ware) and as he won’t be able to make the World Kidney Day celebrations that BNI has planned he... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Mar 7, 2023 | National Kidney Federation, News, Volunteering
Our LAKPA Chair, Kirit Modi MBE, recently attended Windsor Palace to receive his award. Kirit was awarded his MBE in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours list and it was bestowed upon him by Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal in a ceremony on 28th February.... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Mar 2, 2023 | BNI, BWN, Events, Help & Support, News, Volunteering, WIBN, World Kidney Day
World Kidney Day is the biggest day in the kidney community calendar With exactly one week to go until the big day, our third GET INVOLVED update for World Kidney Day 2023, tells you all about how the business networks that support us are raising funds, raising... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Feb 23, 2023 | Help & Support, National Kidney Federation, News
The National Kidney Federation webinar series continues into 2023, the first webinar of the year has been requested by many patients. Wednesday 1st March 2023 at 5pm via Zoom, we bring you Patients Know Best. Designed to help bring together patient’s own data,... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Feb 23, 2023 | Events, Help & Support, News, Volunteering, World Kidney Day
World Kidney Day is the biggest day in the kidney community calendar In our second GET INVOLVED update on World Kidney Day 2023, we’re showing you how – if you have some time to spare on Thursday 9th March – you can help us spread the word about... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Feb 17, 2023 | Events, News, Volunteering, World Kidney Day
In our first GET INVOLVED update of World Kidney Day 2023, we’re giving you some simple hints and tips on how you can spread the word about World Kidney Day and awareness of kidney disease amongst your family, friends and your local community. Get Printing and... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Feb 8, 2023 | Help & Support, Mental Health
By Tracy Kinsella Tracy is a Renal Counsellor in the Renal Psychological Service team at The Lister Hospital. Visit our HELP & SUPPORT page for details on how the team can support you and how you can contact them. In James Nestor’s book “Breath: The New Science... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Jan 30, 2023 | Events, Help & Support, Mental Health, News
Prioritising the mental health wellness of the patients, families, carers and renal staff that we support is high on our priorities, So we’re proud to be supporting #TimeToTalk Day this Thursday 2 February 2023. So, what is Time to Talk Day? Time to Talk Day is... Read more