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Clock up 100 miles on your bike with this virtual challenge.

• Cycling
• Close to home

RideLondon 100 is back! Take on 100 miles with Retina UK.

• Cycling
• London

If you have a child with a visual impairment joining your class, you may have questions about how best you can teach and help them.

• Written

We talk to BBC reporter Ramadan Younes and Professor Robert Maclaren following the BBC documentary Blind Faith

• Podcast
• Audio

Join #TeamRetinaUK for the iconic 2024 TCS London Marathon! Soak up the incredible atmosphere as you run from Blackheath to The Mall finish line where you’ll get your very own marathon medal.

• Running
• London

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.

• Case study - community
• Written

“Being part of something and feeling that you are not alone,” are just two of the positive benefits Cindy Peacock says she experiences as a volunteer with Retina UK.

• Case study - community
• Written

Volunteers founded our charity in the 1970s and they continue to be at our heart.

Biotechnology company Kiora Pharmaceuticals has been given the go-ahead to start in-human testing of a novel “small molecule” treatment, known as KIO-301, for advanced vision loss in retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The phase 1b clinical trial will take place in Adelaide, Australia, and will begin enrolling participants towards the end of 2022.

• News
• Retinitis pigmentosa

Retina UK is delighted to have awarded a new three-year research grant to Prof Majlinda Lako at Newcastle University for a project entitled: To establish AAV.PRPF31 gene augmentation in PRPF31-deficient RPE and photoreceptor cells and assess its efficacy in restoring RPE and photoreceptor function.

• News
• Retinitis pigmentosa