# Exeter and District Kidney Patients Association CIO

- Type: Trust / foundation
- Charity number: 1210374 (https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/1210374)
- Website: https://edkpa.org.uk
- What it funds: Health / saving of lives
- Who it helps: People with disabilities, Other charities or voluntary bodies
- How it gives: Makes grants to individuals, Makes grants to organisations, Provides buildings / facilities / open space, Sponsors or undertakes research
- Area of operation: Cornwall, Devon, Somerset
- Trustees: 6
- Last verified: 2026-11-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Canonical URL: https://opengrant.co.uk/funders/exeter-and-district-kidney-patients-association

EDKPA provides confidential support to renal patients and their carers in the area covered by the Royal Devon University Hospital. We pay for a specialist benefits adviser at CAB and make a wide variety of grants. These may include cash grants for those in distress, equipment and services needed to help patients, social events, support for hospital work and equipment where not funded by NHS, etc.

## Open and forthcoming schemes (0)

None in OpenGrant's sources right now.

## Charitable objects

> The relief of persons who are suffering from disease or illness affecting the kidneys: especially for Patients receiving treatment at the Exeter Kidney unit and its satellites.

## What it funds

Exeter and District Kidney Patients Association CIO is registered under the Charity Commission purposes health / saving of lives for people with disabilities and other charities or voluntary bodies; the register records that it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations, provides buildings / facilities / open space and sponsors or undertakes research.

The Charity Commission register lists its area of operation as Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.

## How to apply

OpenGrant has not found an open scheme from Exeter and District Kidney Patients Association CIO in its sources (last checked 5 Nov 2026). Its website (edkpa.org.uk) may list programmes that are not yet open or are by invitation only. OpenGrant does not take applications; always check the funder's own guidance.

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