Small sparks.
Big breakthroughs.
They just need your funding.
Every 6 minutes someone in the UK hears that they will lose their sight.
In that moment, two profound questions demand urgent answers:
Can this be stopped?
How will I live my life?
Your donation can help us to make sure those two questions have positive answers.
Can this be stopped? Currently, research into preventing and treating sight loss receives a mere 1.5% of publicly funded health research grants.
How will I live my life? People who are blind or vision impaired are three times more likely to experience loneliness and isolation than the general population.
We're here to put change in sight.
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- Almost £30 m
- is how much we plan to invest across scientific and social change over the next 5 years.
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- Just 1.2%
- of public investment in medical research goes into eye research
What will your money do?
We find and fund the brilliant minds and bright ideas that put change in sight.
The researchers we fund are making breakthroughs and discoveries that will prevent and treat eye disease.
And the social projects we support are changing life for blind and vision impaired people.
We are Fight for Sight: we won’t stop until we: Save Sight. Change Lives.
Some of the projects your donation could support:
More ways to get involved...
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Leave a gift in your willLeave a gift in your Will
Entrust us with your legacy, and we’ll use our experience and expertise to prevent, treat and cure vision loss within a lifetime.
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PhilanthropyPhilanthropy
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Volunteer with usVolunteer With Us
We won’t waste your time. Donate any spare minutes you have and together, we’ll put change in sight.
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Donate your preloved itemsDonate your preloved items
From blouses to knick-knacks, jewelry to Jenga – transform your clutter into support for lifechanging projects!
Donate in memory