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December 2011 We hope you enjoy our new look e-news! In this edition find out how you can win up to £2,000 or how your donation this Christmas could be worth twice as much! Plus, exciting research news and more.
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Win £2,000 in our winter raffle!
This is your chance to win a prize of up to £2,000 cash and other prizes too in Fight for Sight's 2011 winter raffle.
Tickets cost just £1 each and the closing date is 21 December 2011. All proceeds will go towards supporting our vital programme of eye research projects.
More information >
Other ways to support our work >
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Double your Christmas donation
Fight for Sight is taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge. If you donate online between Monday 5 December and Friday 9 December your donation will be doubled by the Big Give.
If you are planning on making a donation this Christmas this is a great way to ensure your gift makes an even bigger impact on pioneering eye research.
Find out more >
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Choroideremia - first clinical trial
Funding provided by Fight for Sight through the Tommy Salisbury Choroideremia Fund over the last five years has enabled a British team of researchers to lead the world in starting the first clinical trial for this blinding disease.
Find out more about this trial >
Fight for Sight research >
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Keratoconus gene discovered
With Fight for Sight funding a team at Queen's University Belfast has identified a gene responsible for keratoconus, a disease of the cornea which leads to vision becoming blurred and distorted.
This is a vital step in understanding the disease and in developing new treatments.
Read more about this work >
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Optician raises funds
Eye Emporium opticians are supporting Fight for Sight. Amongst their fundraising efforts they have donated 50p for every eye test carried out in November.
If your company would like to support Fight for Sight please contact Nicole Clark on 020 7264 3909 or nicole@fightforsight.org.uk.
Read more >
Company giving >
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Seeing it my way
The UK Vision Strategy recently launched the ‘Seeing it my way’ consultation, designed to ensure that every blind and partially sighted person in the UK has equal access to the information, advice and practical support, which they’ve identified as being important to them.
Click below to find out more and to give your input into the consultation.
Take part >
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