Fight for Sight supporter crosses hill and dale for choroideremia research

Inspired by the fundraising efforts of his family, James Garrett along with 18 friends and family took on the Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk to raise funds for eye research charity Fight for Sight.

James said, “My family has been supporting Fight for Sight’s choroideremia research for over five years and this year I decided to do a fundraising event of my own.”

Fight for Sight is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to funding research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease. The charity’s current research programme includes a project at Imperial College London which is looking into new treatments for choroideremia – an inherited eye condition that affects James’ ten-year old cousin Tommy Salisbury.

Although James has completed the 26-mile challenge in the past, he decided this year he would use the opportunity to raise funds for Fight for Sight: “The walk was not only a fantastic way to enjoy the breathtaking scenery of the Dales but also to raise much-needed funds for a charity that remains very close to my family. I was delighted my parents and sister were able to join me on the walk along with Tommy’s grandfather John, his dad Paul and big sister Amelia.”

To support James’ fundraising go to: www.justgiving.com/3PeaksFightforSight    

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Notes for Editor:
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. 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 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 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 is focusing on preventing and treating age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and cataract. We are also funding research into the causes of childhood blindness and a large number of rare eye diseases.