Popham Kidney Support was founded on March 13 2013, as Paul Popham Fund, Renal Support Wales, five months after Paul Popham lost his courageous battle with kidney cancer on the October 21 2012.

Popham Kidney Support provides support to children, youths and adults with kidney disease and their families in Wales.

As a charity, we are here to help, you are not alone. We can help you improve your emotional, financial and physical wellbeing and improve your knowledge through education. We can also campaign for better services for you.

Emotional Wellbeing – is provided through our Peer Support Service and Counselling Service.

Peer Support Service – Our trained Peer Mentors are available to provide one to one support to all patients and family members. Peer Mentors are patients/carers with lived experience of kidney disease, and can offer information, advice and a friendly listening ear.

Counselling Service – We provide free counselling for all kidney patients and family members. Living with kidney disease can be extremely difficult and often stressful, even more so during the current pandemic. Our counsellor can provide confidential emotional support to assist with a variety of issues.

Support Groups – We provide a variety of support groups, called kidney café’s for patients undergoing all types of renal replacement treatment. These are also facilitated by our volunteer peer mentors

Wellbeing Projects – we also fund projects that can improve a patients wellbeing such as activity days and family days out.

Physical Wellbeing – if you want to get active you can join our Exercise for Health Group or take part in the transplant games.

Exercise for Health Group – One of our volunteer peer mentors started this group to help people walk and talk initially. The group now supports anyone who takes part in any form of physical activity – yoga, walking, swimming, Pilates, ballet, running, trekking. All members individual activity contributes to a group goal.

Transplant Games – We can help support you take part in the British, European and World Games.

Financial Wellbeing – if you would like financial help whether that is a grant or help with personal finances and benefits, we can help you. If you are a clinician that needs funding for an item that can improve a patients wellbeing we may also be able to help.

Education – whether you need information on a certain treatment choice, or are a new patient wanting information on diet, lifestyle choices, we can help through our education program for new patients, Q&A’s or newsletters.

Campaign – We work with the Kidney Community for Wales to help everyone with kidney disease have access to better services.