Fight for Sight is the UK’s largest charity funding pioneering eye research since 1965.
Our mission Fight for Sight funds pioneering research to prevent sight loss and treat eye disease. Our vision A future everyone can see.
Fight£3.3m for Sight committed to research in 2017/18
Fight£8m for Sight commitment to active research projects
Number of active research projects 166
Number of funded institutions 49 5
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Numbers of patients in clinical studies funded by Fight for Sight
Number16,230 of patients Number87 of studies recruited into NIHR on the NIHR CRN supported studies funded portfolio funded partly partly or wholly by or wholly by Fight for Sight Fight for Sight between between April 2008 April 2008 and and January 2018 January 2018
Number71 of sites Number23 of studies from which NIHR has open on the NIHR recruited participants for CRN portfolio studies funded partly or funded partly or wholly wholly by Fight for Sight by Fight for Sight between April 2008 as of January 2018 and January 2018
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN)
Charity partners Fight for Sight is very pleased to be collaborating with other charities in the sector. Fight for Sight is the UK’s largest charity funding pioneering eye research since 1965.
Estimated prevalence of main eye diseases in the UK
Age-related macular degeneration 600,000 people
Glaucoma 500,000 people
Cataract 500,000 people
Diabetic retinopathy 144,000 people
How many people fear losing their sight?
of25% the adult population are not having an eye test of people78% stated every 2E years. that sight is the FP sense that they fear TOZ losing the most. LPEDE PECFDFP TOZ LPED PECFD
By 2030 2.7 million people will be living with sight loss in the UK
Today, Fight for Sight can only fund one in every eight innovative research projects, including gene and stem cell therapy studies that could unlock life-changing breakthroughs
Government spend on eye research against 1% overall public medical research spend
Eye research spending Sight loss in 2016/17 charities £10.2 million
£40.6 m
Government Wellcome Trust £20.3 million £10.1 million
It is only through medical research we will make sight loss a thing of the past.