Our impact

Our new impact report is out now! It shows that the charity has grown to become the leading charity in the UK funding research into eye health and innovation and improvement in patient care.

Across the last six years, the charity awarded 342 grants worth almost £50 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.

The charity’s support of advances in research and innovation is benefitting patients at Moorfields and people with sight loss in the UK and globally.

This report focuses on the funding of gene therapies which are preventing people losing their sight from inherited eye disease, and treatments for myopia which is currently affecting 30% of the world’s population and forecast to rise to 50% by 2050.

The impact report highlights the charity’s achievements over six years of strategic plans from 2018 to 2024.

And the launch of the report coincides with the stepping down of Moorfields Eye Charity’s chair of trustees Mervyn Walker after nearly nine years of service.

Mervyn has been critical in setting the charity’s strategic direction. Under his leadership, the charity in partnership with UCL has secured commitments of £72.75 million for the new eye health centre

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 and we can’t thank our supporters enough for making our work possible.

People support us in numerous ways including through seasonal appeals, regular giving, 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.