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During our 50th anniversary year, Retina UK was the focus of a BBC Lifeline Appeal on Sunday 16 November 2025.

Retina UK is a charity supporting people affected by inherited sight loss and investing in medical research to help make their challenges a thing of the past.

We have created Discover Wellbeing to help people affected by inherited sight loss to develop an awareness of emotional wellbeing and the practical skills to adapt to life’s ups and downs.

Fancy fundraising for Retina UK? Here’s a few pointers to help get you started.

Jing Yu is a Research Assistant at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

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Russ was diagnosed with Choroideremia at the age of 11, after visiting caves in Spain and not being able to see anything.

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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.

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Different inherited sight loss conditions present noticeable symptoms at different times.

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Despite the challenges of the pandemic, researchers and pharmaceutical companies are still making progress towards delivering new treatments for inherited sight loss.

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• Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA)

Our monthly e-Newsletter featuring the latest updates from Retina UK.

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