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Saturday 6 December 2025, 12.30pm - 4.30pm - In-person - Come and join James and the group for their Christmas social get together over lunch at Carluccio's restaurant in Reading City Centre.

• Local Peer Support Group

Cataracts occur fairly frequently and at a relatively early age within the Retina UK community of people with inherited retinal conditions. A question that comes up over and over again is whether or not to have cataract surgery.

• Podcast
• Audio

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.

• News

Thursday 4 December 2025, 7.00pm - 8.30pm - via Zoom - Come and join Martik and the group for our festive Young Adults online social catch up where we are delighted to be joined by Emma Quigley & Joe Maguire from Blind in Business.

• Local Peer Support Group

Retina UK is delighted that the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has accepted the gene therapy Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec) for ongoing use by the NHS in Scotland.

• News
• Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA)

A guide for professionals. Retina UK is a national charity. We offer information and support to people affected by inherited sight loss to enable them to lead better lives today and fund medical research to accelerate the search for treatments for the future. We also support professionals working with them.

• Leaflet
• Audio
• Written

Download copies of our Knowledge-base material

The Eye Care Support Pathway is a new framework to ensure patients have timely access to information, advice and support throughout their eye care journey.

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

• e-Newsletter
• Audio
• Written

The iconic National Three Peaks Challenge involves climbing the three highest peaks of Scotland, England and Wales within 24 hours.

• Walks & Treks
• United Kingdom