Christmas Fair raises funds for Fight for Sight

Long-term supporter, Elizabeth Maxwell, raised £350 for Fight for Sight by selling handmade Christmas gifts at the St John’s Wood Church annual Christmas Fair.

Elizabeth, who is registered blind, made and sold a range of homemade cakes, chutneys and knitted crafts to raise funds for Fight for Sight’s research into eye disease and blindness. The charity’s current research programme is supporting world-class research into a range of serious eye conditions including glaucoma, cataract, age-related macular degeneration and the causes of childhood blindness.

Elizabeth is a regular supporter of Fight for Sight and is committed to fundraising for the charity: "I support Fight for Sight because of the wonderful work they do.  Every year I thoroughly enjoy preparing all the cakes, chutney and knitted items and do it with love and lots of good energy! I hope to continue supporting Fight for Sight for many years to come."

Annu Mayor, Director of Fundraising, is so grateful for the dedication shown by Elizabeth and other Fight for Sight fundraisers: “Every year Elizabeth works hard to make and collect Christmas gifts for the fundraising fair. We are so grateful for her ongoing support and for her commitment to raising funds for vital research into the causes and treatments of blindness and eye disease.”

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For more information call Louise Elliott at Fight for Sight
on 020 7929 7755 or visit our website: www.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 millions of pounds worth of research at leading universities and hospitals throughout the UK. Our 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 45,000 corneal transplants to take place;
• revolutionising the treatment for children with amblyopia (lazy eye);
• bringing hope to children with inherited eye disease by helping 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.

Fight for Sight’s current research programme of over £5 million focuses on preventing and treating age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and cataract as well as causes of childhood blindness.