{"id":159726,"date":"2025-11-19T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kidneyresearchuk.org\/?p=159726"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:15:40","slug":"vote-make-your-mark-in-smiley-charity-film-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidneyresearchuk.org\/2025\/11\/19\/vote-make-your-mark-in-smiley-charity-film-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for the Make Your Mark campaign film in the Smiley Charity Film Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to share that the short film &#8216;Is it inside you to save a life?&#8217; from the Make Your Mark campaign, as part of the Robert Dangoor Partnership for Living Kidney Donation, has been entered for the Smiley Charity Film Awards 2026, helping to shine a spotlight on the life-saving impact of living kidney donation.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smileycharityfilmawards.com\/films\/is-it-inside-you-to-save-a-life\" target=\"_self\"> Vote now <\/a> <iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X3_MsUC9NSY?si=pOnZ7IUbj01Do6Pk\" width=\"1280\" height=\"620\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p>The Robert Dangoor Partnership was launched by Kidney Research UK alongside UK\u00a0charity\u00a0Give a Kidney. Together, our aim is to raise awareness of living kidney donation and help more people understand what it means to be a living donor, as well as\u00a0supporting\u00a0and guiding them through their donation journey.<\/p>\r\n<p>The video was filmed at Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent where the partnership took over a shopfront with mannequins and a living kidney donor standing in the window, representing the six people who die every week waiting for a kidney. Each of the figures were seen lifting up their t-shirts to reveal the question &#8216;Is it inside you to save a life?&#8217;<\/p>\r\n<p>A shortlist of the nominated films will be selected\u00a0based on\u00a0a\u00a0public\u00a0vote, so\u00a0we&#8217;re\u00a0asking you to vote\u00a0today and help to raise much-needed awareness of living kidney donation.<\/p>\r\n<p>Please click on the below link to vote. Voting is completely free and takes less than a minute.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smileycharityfilmawards.com\/films\/is-it-inside-you-to-save-a-life\" target=\"_self\"> Vote now <\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Please also share the voting link with your friends and family as all support to spread the word is hugely appreciated!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to share that the short film &#8216;Is it inside you to save a life?&#8217; from the Make Your Mark campaign, as part of the Robert Dangoor Partnership for Living Kidney Donation, has been entered for the Smiley Charity Film Awards 2026, helping to shine a spotlight on the life-saving impact of living kidney&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":159735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[411,48],"class_list":["post-159726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration-and-partnerships","tag-kidney-donation","tag-transplant"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vote for the Make Your Mark campaign film in the Smiley Charity Film Awards - Kidney Research UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Voting has opened for the Smiley Charity Film Awards. 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