Please help with the Kidney Care UK charity stamp appeal

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Every year more than 900 million Christmas cards are sent in the UK.

If your readers find themselves receiving plenty of cards this year through the post we’d like to encourage them to save their stamps.

At Kidney Care UK (the UK’s leading kidney patient support charity), we can collect these and turn used stamps into cash donations, at no extra cost to your readers.

Every year we receive around 250kg of stamps, generating around £9,000 to support thousands of kidney patients across the UK.

Around 6% of the UK adult population have chronic kidney disease (CKD) - that’s the equivalent to one in every 16 people in your area who could benefit from our support.

If your readers would like to help us, please request one of our free collector’s pack online by visiting: www.kidneycareuk.org/stamps

The packs will arrive in January.

Kidney patients are disproportionately affected by the cost of living crisis.

In the last two months alone, we have seen an increase of 240% in demand for our grants to help people pay their heating bills, and an increase of 51% in demand for our £300 emergency assistance grants.

Donations allow us to be able to provide support to kidney patients when they need it most.

Thank you, and we hope all of your readers have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Laura Toop, Community Fundraising Manager

Kidney Care UK

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