Big Band fundraiser for Fight for Sight

Lady Margaret opens the Big Band jazz event

The Fight for Sight Bath Committee raised over £3,000 at their annual Big Band jazz evening held in Midford on Saturday 7 August.

The Committee, led by Bath businessman Eric Snook, are long-term supporters of Fight for Sight and have been raising funds to support research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease for many years.

Eric said: “This is the seventeenth year we have organised the Big Band event and once again the evening was a huge success. We were delighted to welcome over 200 guests including Bath’s own Lady Margaret who opened the event. As always the music by Sound of Music was fantastic and we rounded off the evening with an impressive firework display.

“Thanks to the hard work of the Committee and the generosity of our guests we were able to raise vital funds to help Fight for Sight find ways of preventing sight loss.”

Fight for Sight is the UK’s leading eye research charity. The current research programme focuses on preventing and treating age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, cataract and the causes of childhood blindness.

Annu Mayor, Director of Fundraising at Fight for Sight, said: “We are very fortunate to have the support of Eric and the other members of the Bath Committee. Over the years they have raised an incredible amount of money to support Fight for Sight’s vital programme of eye research.

“I thoroughly enjoyed the Big Band evening (despite the heavy downpour!) and the opportunity to meet some of our supporters from the local area.”

For more information
call Louise Elliott on 020 7929 7755
or email press@fightforsight.org.uk

Note for Editors:

Fight for Sight is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to funding world-class research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease.

Since 1965, the charity has funded research at leading universities and hospitals throughout the UK. The charity’s major achievements in this time include:
• saving the sight of thousands of premature babies through understanding and controlling levels of oxygen delivery;
• restoring sight by establishing the UK Corneal Transplant Service enabling over 48,000 corneal transplants to take place;
• revolutionising the treatment for children with amblyopia (lazy eye);
• bringing hope to children with inherited eye disease by helping to fund the team responsible for the world’s first gene therapy clinical trial; and
• providing £1million for the research unit at the dedicated children’s eye centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital.