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Organising your own fundraising is great fun and a brilliant way to involve your friends, family and local community.

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.

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The following questions are often asked by people contacting Retina UK.

Our volunteers are highly valued members of the Retina UK team and their roles are essential to help support and enable people affected by inherited sight loss to live fulfilling lives.

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Retina UK has invested more than £16million into cutting-edge research since the charity was founded in 1976.

We employ a number of full and part-time staff. Our office is in Buckingham.

Retina UK has a number of online support resources which we offer via social media.

The eye is a very complex organ. It has a lens at the front which focuses light on to a light sensitive tissue that lines the inside of the back of the eye – this tissue is called the retina.

Volunteers are highly valued members of the Retina UK team and essential to our ability to achieve our vision of a world where all those affected by inherited retinal conditions are able to live a fulfilling life.