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Thursday 16 July 2026, 7.00pm - 8.00pm - via Zoom - Please come and join us for our Summer meeting where we are delighted to welcome our guest speakers Bhavini Makwana and Eamonn Dunne, Policy & Campaigns Managers at Thomas Pocklington Trust.
Thursday 2 July 2026, 7.00pm - 8.00pm - via Zoom - Please come and join our Glasgow group facilitator, Sarah Speed and Retina UK Ambassador, Colin Hetherington for a Summer online region-wide Scotland Peer Support Group meeting.
Saturday 22 August 2026, 1.00pm - 7.00pm - In-person - Come and join Colin and the group at the Tyneside Irish Centre for their latest in-person event in Newcastle.
This edition marks the start of the charity's 50th anniversary year. It includes lots of ways to get involved over the next 12 months along with details of our Annual and Professionals' Conferences in September.
Tuesday 21 July 2026, 7.00pm - 8.00pm - via Zoom - Following on from a great in-person Summer meet up last month, we are pleased to invite you to come and join facilitator Suzanne Clarke and the group for their latest online social catch up.
Steve has been volunteering for Retina UK since its formation in 1976 and has been a part of the Helpline team since the early 1980s.. He remembers very well a caller named Khadeja, who called the Helpline multiple times, following her diagnosis with RP in 1999.
At Retina UK we get many queries from those overseas affected by inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs). Understandably, many want to know about research and how they can get involved. Retina UK does not organise trials or directly recruit participants.
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We’re all still buzzing from our recent conferences. We do hope you enjoyed them as much as we did. If you weren’t able to join us, then you can watch or listen to the recordings on our website.
We regularly make applications for grants to fund our information and support projects and have recently been successful in securing £12,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund.
