Our Impact
Our funding in action.
Impact Stories
We’re a funder, with the experience and expertise to find and fund brilliant minds and bright ideas. The golden thread that links everything we fund, is that it works toward our mission to ‘Save Sight. Change Lives.’
We de-risk the projects we fund by passing them through our grants assessment panels. Both panels, our Research and Social Grant Assessment Panel (RGAP and SGAP) consist of sector professionals.
This process ensures we’re investing our money into projects with the most potential to deliver projects that drive freedom, independence and connection and research that’s putting change in sight.
Fight for Sight's Vision is to Save Sight. Change Lives. Our Mission is to fund brilliant minds and bright ideas that will put change in sight for everyone impacted by vision loss.
In this video, you'll meet a handful of the 2 million people in the UK affected by vision loss, including Elizabeth Maxwell, the blind baker and chutney maker who fundraises yearly by selling her wares at Christmas Fayres. We also met Joe Pepper, who was part of a groundbreaking clinical that stopped his vision loss and restored some of his sight.
Javid's confidence was boosted by participating in a project we're funding with Metro Blind Sport to teach people to play sports - blind cricket in Javid's case.
We go behind the scenes of Professor Robert MacLaren's Lab and find more about his work.
As a charity, we are working for a world where everyone enjoys the best possible eye health and people who are blind and vision impaired live life without limitations.
Research we've commissioned:
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Outside - Insight ReportOutside - Insight Report
Research revealing people who are blind and vision impaired are three times more likely to experience loneliness and isolation.
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The Unseen - Insight ReportThe Unseen - Insight Report
The Unseen was the first ever research into the shocking scale and nature of domestic abuse among blind and vision impaired people.
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See My Skills - Insight ReportSee My Skills - Insight Report
A roadmap to ensure that everyone, sighted or blind, has the chance to enjoy the independence, purpose and meaning that employment can bring.
“If I can do anything in my lifetime to help prevent my children from losing any more sight, or to give them the opportunity to give them better sight, then that’s what I’ll do.”