Dear Supporters

“My eyesight is deteriorating but I don’t have an eye disease, it’s just part of getting older”

This is something we at Fight for Sight often hear. Losing one’s sight tends to be considered as just one of those things, an inevitable part of growing old. We don’t think it should be.

It is estimated that 1 in 3 people aged 65 and over have difficulties with their sight. Most commonly this is caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, cataract or diabetic retinopathy. As our population grows and people live longer, more and more of us will experience sight loss caused by conditions like these. More lives will be affected by the challenges that losing vision in later life can bring.

Research can change this

Advances in medical research now mean that some eye conditions can be routinely treated. For example, operations to remove cataracts are common, and treatments are available for some people with wet AMD. There is, however, so much more to do to help everyone for whom treatments do not yet exist. This is why we are working hard to fund the very best research into finding ways to prevent sight loss, as well as to find effective treatments.For further progress, we need your help

We are delighted that progress is being made, but we simply cannot fund every excellent research project due to a lack of funds.

To help us continue this work and increase the amount of eye research that can be carried out, we are dependent upon the generosity of our supporters. Please, if you can, consider making a gift today to help us to find ways to prevent and treat sight loss, and dramatically improve so many people’s lives.

The generosity of our supporters is so important, without which vital developments made to date would not have been achieved. 

A gift today, whatever the size, will help to fund the breakthroughs of tomorrow.

There are different ways to make your donation, including an online payment option:

Thousands of people in the UK and worldwide are living with sight loss and many more of us will develop sight problems as we grow older.  We don’t believe that we should just accept this as inevitable. Research can make a difference and working together we will find ways of preventing and treating age-related causes of sight loss.

Thank you for your support.

Yours sincerely

Professor Alan Wright FRCP FRSE FMedSci
Trustee

PS Please, if you can, make a donation today. This will help to speed up the search for ways to change the lives of so many people with sight loss and eye disease.