Fight for Sight Vice President is awarded prestigious medal for voluntary service

On 30 June, Fight for Sight Vice President, Clive Stone, was awarded the Badge of the Order of Mercy in recognition of his many years of voluntary service to Fight for Sight.

He was presented with his medal at a ceremony at The Mansion House, London attended by the Lady Mayoress of London.

Continuing a tradition that began over a century ago, The League of Mercy awards around 25 medals every year to volunteers who have made an outstanding contribution to charities and voluntary organisations.

Clive, a qualified optometrist and Fellow of the College of Optometrists, has supported Fight for Sight for over 20 years, serving as a trustee, Chairman and, currently, as Vice President. Over the years he has helped to raise funds for major research projects and to establish the Fight for Sight Eye Clinic.  He continues to organise an annual golf day to raise funds for the charity.

Fight for Sight Chief Executive, Michele Acton, is delighted Clive’s tremendous contribution to the charity has been recognised: “Clive has worked tirelessly to support Fight for Sight and its programme of eye research. We are extremely fortunate to have him as our Vice President, he is a wonderful ambassador for Fight for Sight and this honour is thoroughly deserved.”

Fight for Sight is the UK’s leading eye research charity. The current research programme focuses on the prevention and treatment of age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and cataract. The charity also funds world-class research into the causes of childhood blindness and a large number of rare eye diseases.

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Note for Editors:
1) Fight for Sight
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.

 2) The League of Mercy
The League of Mercy originally created in 1899 for the encouragement and recognition of voluntary work in hospitals and the community, was re-founded as a registered charity in 1999 and now continues the work of the original founder, the then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.