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With your challenge, you’ll help support people affected by inherited sight loss to lead better lives today and accelerate the search for treatments for the future.

Join the Retina UK membership today! Anyone is welcome to join; whether you are living with a sight loss condition yourself, related to somebody who is, or if you are working as a sight loss professional.

Tuesday 29 September 2026, 7.00pm - 8.00pm - via Zoom - Please come and join Danielle & Perm for their latest meet up where we are delighted to welcome our guest speaker Tilly Dowler, The Blind Stylist.

• Local Peer Support Group

Tuesday 27 October, 7.00pm - 8.00pm - via Zoom - Please come and join facilitator Perm and the group for their latest online catch up where we are delighted to welcome our inspirational guest speaker Shazia Begum.

• Local Peer Support Group

Join us for an inspiring webinar where four artists share their creative passions and journey with sight loss.

• Webinar
• Audio
• Video

Creating without limits: artistic expression and sight Loss

• Webinar

This edition includes exciting news about our Annual and Professionals’ Conferences. We hope as many of you as possible can join us in Manchester, or online, in September. You’ll also find updates about the latest research and a feature on one of our funded researchers, Dr Jörn Lakowski.

• Look Forward
• Audio
• Written

Nanoscope Therapeutics has announced positive results from their two year randomised controlled phase 2b optogenetic therapy trial for late-stage retinitis pigmentosa (RP).

• News
• Retinitis pigmentosa

Katerina joined the Retina UK team at the start of 2023 after hearing about the charity through her involvement in a research project at the University of Bath, where she works as an academic.

• Case study - community
• Written

It’s not very often that we come across a researcher working on a project inspired by their own lived experience of a sight loss condition.

• Case study - research
• Written