We will count this in treatments delivered, and in nothing else.
A foundation's impact is not the size of its appeal or the reach of its posts. For a dialysis programme it is a plain number: how many sessions were funded, for how many patients, and whether they were able to stay on the schedule their clinician set.
One unit of impact: one session a patient could not otherwise afford.
Impact reporting goes wrong in a predictable way. An organisation counts the people it reached, the events it held and the leaflets it handed out, and somewhere in that pile the question of whether anyone was actually treated quietly disappears.
This foundation has an unusually easy job, because its work is countable. A haemodialysis session either happened or it did not. A patient either completed the course their clinician prescribed or fell short of it. A screening either led to a nephrology assessment or ended at the table.
So these are the measures the foundation will report against, and they are stated here as our method — not as a tally of work already done. The figures themselves are published once the foundation's reporting cycle begins.
- Sessions funded — the number of subsidised haemodialysis sessions paid for in the period
- Patients supported — how many individuals those sessions belonged to
- Schedule adherence — how many patients received the full course prescribed, rather than a reduced one
- Screenings completed — and, separately, how many abnormal results reached a nephrology assessment
- Cost per session — what it actually costs the programme to deliver one, including the share of running costs
The sponsorship levels the programme runs on.
Each level is tied to treatment, not to a vague contribution. This is the whole pricing of the appeal.
Four places the money lands.
A session on the machine
The direct cost of one haemodialysis treatment for a patient who cannot meet it — the consumables, the clinical time and the share of running the unit.
An early diagnosis
A screening test and, where the result is abnormal, the laboratory work and nephrology assessment that turn a reading into a treatment plan.
A continued course
Weekly and monthly sponsorship keeps a patient on the full schedule instead of the rationed one they would otherwise choose out of necessity.
A stronger renal team
Support for the clinical skills the programme depends on, so that quality of care is not limited by the number of people trained to deliver it.
What we commit to tell you, and how often.
Donors to a health programme are entitled to more than gratitude. These are the reporting commitments the foundation is adopting, to be confirmed formally by the board at its first meeting.
- Quarterly programme update. Sessions funded, patients supported and screenings completed in the quarter, published on this site and sent to every regular donor.
- Annual report and accounts. Income by source, expenditure by category, the cost of running the foundation itself, and the year's programme figures.
- Restricted funds, tracked separately. Money given for a named purpose is reported against that purpose, and is not absorbed into general funds.
- Signed off by trustees. Every published report is approved by the board before it is issued, and the treasurer's review is stated on the face of it.
- Corrections in the open. If a published figure turns out to be wrong, we correct it in the next report and say what changed.
The part of this page we will not write for you.
[Patient story to be added]
This card is reserved for the first patient account the foundation publishes: who they are as far as they wish to be identified, what brought them to the clinic, and what the programme changed for them.
It will be written with the patient, reviewed by the clinical team, and published only with signed consent. Until then the space stays empty rather than being filled with an invented case.
[Patient story to be added]
A second slot, kept for a story from the screening side of the programme — someone who felt entirely well, was tested at an outreach event, and was found to have disease that could still be slowed.
Stories from screening matter because they show the part of the work that never becomes a dramatic photograph: the crisis that did not happen.
Ask us how many sessions your money funded. If we cannot answer that question, we have not earned the gift.
The foundation's reporting standardGive once, or hold a patient's schedule together every month.
Sponsorship is counted in sessions. So is the report you will receive.