Impact report 2024
Find out more about the difference we made in 2024.
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Find out more about the difference we made in 2024.
Our volunteers are highly valued members of the Retina UK team and their roles are essential to help support and enable people affected by inherited sight loss to live fulfilling lives.
The difference we made in 2022
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.
Martin started volunteering for Retina UK in 2014 after retiring as a Chartered Civil Engineer.
This is the final edition of Look Forward this year and what a year it has been! We’ve had some very positive feedback about our Conferences and the Big Give Christmas Challenge is back - a great opportunity to double your donation at no extra cost to you! We’ve included a handy ‘What’s on’ article which outlines some of our plans for 2026. We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas and a happy and fulfilling New Year.
A recording of the 46th Retina UK Annual Conference on 24 June 2023. The Conference was held at the University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus in London and online.
Since the publication of this newsletter our founder and honorary president Lynda Cantor MBE has passed away. We are all deeply saddened by this news.
In February 2022, ProQR announced a disappointing outcome for their phase 2/3 trial of sepofarsen for Leber congenital amaurosis type 10 (LCA10).
Prof Mariya Moosajee at Moorfields Eye Hospital has asked us to share the message below about the clinical trial she is running. This trial is for a treatment that targets a particular section of the USH2A gene.