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Talk & support service

Our Retina UK Talk & support service (formerly Telephone Befriending Service) links people who may be feeling isolated or lonely with a trained volunteer for regular contact.

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Skydiving

Skydiving is an exhilarating experience, and you can do this while supporting our cause. Various dates and locations are available across the UK.

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Join our Lived Experience Panel

Our sight loss survey highlighted that you have a real appetite to get involved in representing the inherited sight loss community through activities like focus groups, surveys and research projects via the Retina UK Lived Experience Panel.

Our staff

We employ a number of full and part-time staff. Our office is in Buckingham.

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Corporate partnerships

Our partnerships are mutually beneficial. For Retina UK this means we can fund more research and offer support on a local level, while our partners can achieve corporate social responsibility objectives whilst making a tangible impact.

Eye structure

The eye is a very complex organ. It has a lens at the front which focuses light on to a light sensitive tissue that lines the inside of the back of the eye – this tissue is called the retina.

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Giving in memory

Celebrate the life of your loved one, by donating in their memory and help us fund more research and support, now.

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Volunteer for us

Volunteers are highly valued members of the Retina UK team and essential to our ability to achieve our vision of a world where all those affected by inherited retinal conditions are able to live a fulfilling life.

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Contact our Volunteering Team

Thank you for your interest in volunteering. Please complete the following form and we’ll respond as soon as we can.

Lynda Cantor

What we do

Our vision is a world where everyone with inherited sight loss is able to live a fulfilling life.