e-Newsletter January 2025
Our monthly e-Newsletter featuring the latest updates from Retina UK.
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e-Newsletter April 2026
Our monthly e-Newsletter featuring the latest updates from Retina UK.
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.
e-Newsletter February 2024
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‘Talking’ Home & Garden Peer Support Group
Tuesday 3 November 2026, 7.00pm - 8.00pm - via Zoom - Please join facilitators Brian & Steve where we invite you to celebrate National Homemaker Day with us by sharing your tips, hints & advice on how we can make our home & garden easier to manage.
‘Talking’ Creative Arts Peer Support Group
Thursday 10 September 2026, 7.00pm - 8.00pm - via Zoom - Please come and join facilitators Steve & Brian for our latest meeting where we are delighted to be joined by our guest speaker David Grigor, Artist, Author and Inclusive Creative Practitioner.
Inheritance patterns
Your doctor or genetic counsellor will spend some time asking about other people in your family to try to work out the way in which your particular faulty gene has been passed down through the generations – this is referred to as the inheritance pattern.
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.
South Wales Local Peer Support Group
Tuesday 8 September 2026, 7.00pm - 8.00pm - via Zoom - Please come and join facilitator Stuart Francis and the group for their latest online meeting where we are delighted to welcome our guest speaker Michelle Jones, Operations Manager at Sight Life.