Our impact

Our new impact report is out now! It highlights the successes of the 2022-23 year and the difference we made with your support.

Your support is having an impact on people’s lives: on patients with better sight, and on the work of researchers and clinicians.

Across the last three years, we awarded 160 grants worth a total of £16.8 million to support research, innovation in patient care, staff wellbeing and training at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

Thanks to your support, we’ve seen advancements in research we’re funding on corneal disease, how machine learning is transforming treatment of macular degeneration, changes to paediatric pathways working with GPs in the community, and the impact of our innovation grants.

We continue to fund researchers at different stages of their careers. We’re very proud of their achievements with advances in research and prestigious roles in the scientific community.

It was also a year of major Oriel milestones with more philanthropic commitments, NHS and government final approval and signing of contracts with developers Bouygues UK who are preparing for construction later this year.

Moorfields Eye Hospital and the charity’s support mean so much to so many patients and their families and friends. We’re proud to help bring quicker diagnoses and new treatments to people with sight loss - changing lives in the UK and worldwide.

We’ve achieved a lot this year and we can’t thank our supporters enough for making our work possible.

Across the year people have supported in numerous ways including through regular giving, fundraising in the community, participating in Eye to Eye and pledging a gift in their will.

Thank you for your support in helping us make a difference to the lives of people with sight loss.

We couldn’t have achieved what we have without you.