My Story

In 2003 my twin sister Sue was diagnosed with IgA nephropathy, a common chronic kidney disease which mainly affects young people. She slowly lost kidney function and by 2017, she needed a transplant. My husband, two young sons and I packed up our life in New Zealand to go to the UK to support my sister, while she hopefully got a kidney from her husband. Unfortunately, he was also diagnosed with IgAN. I donated a kidney to Sue in March 2018. We know that IgAN may recur and she may need another transplant. 

I am running the London Marathon 2025 for Kidney Research UK. 

As the leading kidney research charity in the UK, nothing is going to stop us in our urgent mission to end kidney disease. We're here to be heard, to make a difference, to change the future. This is a disease that ruins and destroys lives. It must be stopped. 

Over the past 60 years, our research has made an impact. But kidney failure is rising, as are the factors contributing to it, such as diabetes and obesity.

Today, we are more essential than ever.


Worldwide there are approximately 700 million people living with chronic kidney disease and approximatley 7.2 million people living with kidney disease in the UK, that's more than 10% of the entire population. Treatments can be gruelling and currently there is no cure. Only research will end this and nobody can do it but us, by offering kidney patients and their families hope for the future. We're taking it on. But we can't do it without you.

Kidney disease ends here.