The 4th – 10th September 2023 is PKD Awareness Week, a week dedicated to educating and inspiring our friends, families and communities to learn about the condition that around 70,000 people in the UK live with.

This September, join us in helping to raise awareness of PKD by organising your own sponsored walk and fundraising for PKD Charity. By fundraising for us you will be helping to fund research into a cure for PKD.

Kidney research is critically underfunded - in the UK, less than 1% of all health research funding goes to kidney research, and a fraction of that amount goes towards PKD research specifically. New treatments for PKD are needed now!

Walk for PKD

You choose your distance and location. you could organise a walk in the hills with friends, a marathon trek along the coast with your dog, or arrange a walk and get together with your local PKD community group.

However, and wherever you choose to walk, you will be raising awareness and funds to support people affected by PKD and research in to finding a cure.

How to get involved

- Choose a location and plan your walk

- Set up your fundraising page

- Share with your friends, family and colleagues. Get them to sign up to join you!

- Lace up and Walk for PKD.

Sign up to Walk for PKD and you will get:

- A fundraising guide to with lots of tips and advice

- PKD t-shirts or neck buffs for you and your team

- PKD Charity resources to help you promote your walk and fundraising

More information

If you have any questions at all or would like to have a chat about organising your own Walk for PKD then please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you. Email fundraise@pkdcharity.org.uk or call 07715 664687.