Reports and Accounts

Reviewing the progress we make each year against our strategic goals.

Paula Long’s paintings are a bold celebration of colour, from shimmering sunsets over poppy fields to tactile depictions of trees, yellow leaves embellished with gold flecks or multicoloured boughs dotted by bright beads. Paula, 61, is pictured here doing a painting in her well-lit living room. Paula was diagnosed with Glaucoma in 2008.

Our organisation’s vision is to: “Save Sight. Change Lives”. Over the past year, we’ve consolidated our merger, built a unified identity, and launched an ambitious five-year strategy.

Our researchers are at the forefront, making breakthroughs and discoveries that will help us understand, prevent, diagnose and treat eye disease. The partnerships we build and initiatives we support are changing life for blind and vision impaired people.

During the period covered by this Annual Report, we have ploughed more than £2.5m into research. As well as funding projects, we have invested in talented scientists and clinicians. Over £600,000 has gone to innovative projects that will change the lives of people impacted by vision loss.

The first-of-its-kind report on loneliness and isolation that we published earlier this year led to an informed grant distribution that is making a real difference in communities across the UK.

Our Annual Report 2023 - 2024. PDF

Our impact in numbers

£2.6m

Total grants awarded for research
£555k

Total grants awarded for social change
102

Volunteers signed up
35,160

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Invest

We invest in “brilliant minds” (scientists) who explore how we can better understand, prevent, diagnose and treat eye disease – areas set out in our research strategy. We’re also funding “bright ideas” that positively change the lives of people who are blind and vision impaired.

£1,2m

We awarded grants of up to £250,000 to five projects

Inform

We commission and conduct research to inform the landscape of our sector in order to drive change.

In 2024 our research into the experiences of loneliness and isolation for blind and vision impaired people revealed 1 in 3 people experience loneliness.

Outside - Insight Report

Influence

The projects we fund directly touch the lives of the people engaged in them. Everything we learn through these projects, the measured impact and the science we fund, also influences our wider sector and society.

People Power

We’re grateful to all who have supported us this year, everyone who fundraised, volunteered or donated to our cause. Marathon runners who, with every step, put change in sight for everyone living with vision loss; and, of course, the philanthropists who gave so generously, companies that have supported us, and our Family Funds who work tirelessly year after year. Together, we’re putting change in sight.

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