Reports and Accounts
Reviewing the progress we make each year against our strategic goals.
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 impact in numbers
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- £2.6m
- Total grants awarded for research
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- £555k
- Total grants awarded for social change
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- 102
- Volunteers signed up
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- 35,160
- Social media followers
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.
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- £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.
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.
“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.”
Kate Cameron, Cameron Family Fund
Previous annual reports
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Fight for Sight Annual Report 2022-23
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Vision Foundation Annual Report 2022-23
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Fight for Sight Annual Report 2021-22
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Vision Foundation Annual Report 2021-22
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Fight for Sight Annual Report 2020-21
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Vision Foundation Annual Report 2020-21
We’re investing in research that explores all aspects of life for people who are blind or vision impaired, to ensure our funding has the greatest impact.
