Tyne & Wear Local Peer Support Group
Saturday 28 March 2026, 1.00pm - 7.00pm - In-person - Come and join Colin and the group at the Tyneside Irish Centre for their first in-person event of 2026.
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Every experience counts: Insights from our sight loss survey
A huge thank you to everyone who completed our 2025 sight loss survey. This year we received over 600 responses. It follows similar surveys in 2019 and 2022 which led directly to the introduction of our Unlock Genetics and Discover Wellbeing resources, as well as shaping our work with the professional community who support people with inherited sight loss.
Look Forward – Spring 2023 – Issue 179
The Spring 2023 edition of the Retina UK newsletter, Look Forward, which includes articles about our upcoming events, research updates and more.
Look Forward – Summer 2024 – Issue 183
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.
How we can support you in your role
Whether you are a professional looking for practical information for yourself, or practical or emotional support for your clients, online, by phone or face-to-face, we're here to help. All of our services are free to access and offered in a range of accessible formats.
Meet our community: The Kearney family
Emily Kearney is mum to four boys, aged four to 13, two of whom are living with an inherited sight loss condition.
Podcast: Unproven treatments
We talk to BBC reporter Ramadan Younes and Professor Robert Maclaren following the BBC documentary Blind Faith
Meet our volunteers: Joe Rizzo-Naudi
Our amazing volunteers are diverse in age, background and ethnicity. The one thing they have in common is that they are all living with, or directly affected by, an inherited sight loss condition.
Help to shape our future
Would you like to help shape Retina UK’s future? Do you want to ensure decision-makers understand the impact of inherited sight loss? If so we’d love to hear from you.
ReNeuron trial FAQs
You may have heard that a cell-based treatment approach (sometimes referred to as a “stem cell treatment”), developed by a company called ReNeuron, is being tested in a clinical trial at Oxford Eye Hospital and other centres in the US and Europe.