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
by Ali Lawrence | Jan 27, 2023 | BWN, Fundraising
LAKPA have been invited to become the charity for a newly-formed Busy Women Networking in Hitchin. The group which is hosted by award winning relationship therapist and celebrant Ali Moore meet once a month at The Rusty Gun in Hitchin, and Ros attended the first... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Jan 26, 2023 | Help & Support, People Stories
Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) can affect whole families, so we’d like to say thank you to David Green (LAKPA Committee Member for Fundraising and Young Adults) for sharing this very personal story of how APKD has affected generations of... Read more
by Ali Lawrence | Jan 25, 2023 | BNI, Fundraising
If you’re anything like us you like to always have a good stock of greeting cards at home and – even better – know that a local charity will benefit from your purchase. So how wonderful that Leah Sands, Vice President of BNI (Endeavour) Ware is... Read more
