Fight for Sight raffle winners announced

The winners of Fight for Sight's first ever fundraising raffle have been announced following the raffle draw on 20 November 2009.

Mrs Faanya Rose, Fight for Sight President, drew the winning tickets at the Fight for Sight offices. Mrs Everitt of Bicester won the first prize of £2,500, the second prize of £750 goes to Mr Blower of Wolverhampton and third prize of £500 to Mr Jones of Cardiff.

A full list of winners, including runners up can be found below.

FfS Raffle 2009 winners

The raffle was a great success, raising more than £32,500 for Fight for Sight's work. Funds raised will go directly to supporting the charity's work funding world class research into the prevention and treatment 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.