The NCKRF is a registered charity whose aims are to raise funds and award grants in the North of England for research into all aspects of kidney disease and its treatment. The Fund was established in 1970 following an appeal through the Newcastle Evening Chronicle to help with building a kidney preservation machine. The Fund is entirely voluntary and has no paid administrators or fund-raisers. Annual expenditure is of the order of £200,000.
Since 1970 the Fund has endowed seven tenured research posts in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in nephrology, transplant surgery, urology, dialysis, renal physiology, transplant immunology and transplant genetics.
