Golden Anniversary Gifts for Fight for Sight

Friends and family of Rosemary and Roger Rushbrook helped to raise over £600 for eye research by making donations to Fight for Sight in lieu of Golden Anniversary gifts.

The Rushbrooks celebrated 50 years of marriage at a special lunch at Elm Farm Hotel in Norwich and an anniversary party held at their local cricket club. Rosemary chose to support Fight for Sight after attending a World Sight Day information event hosted by the University of East Anglia:

 “As a patient of the Norfolk and Norwich eye clinic, I was really interested to hear about the important research Fight for Sight is funding. We were really impressed by the charity and wanted to do something to support their work and help to raise their profile locally.”

Fight for Sight is the UK’s largest charity dedicated to funding world-class research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease. The current research programme focuses on serious eye conditions including glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataract, diabetic retinopathy and the causes of childhood blindness.

Fight for Sight’s Director of Fundraising, Annu Mayor, said: “We are delighted the Rushbrooks chose Fight for Sight to benefit from their anniversary celebrations and are very grateful for the generosity shown by their friends and family. It is support like this that enables Fight for Sight to continue to fund vital 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.