Golf day success for choroideremia committee

The 2010 Golf Day organised by the Tommy Salisbury Choroideremia Committee raised £2,200 for vital research into choroideremia.

64 supporters enjoyed the annual fundraising event held at Shooters Hill Golf Club in south London.  Dot Grindley, Tommy’s grandmother and one of the event organisers, said:
“It was a really enjoyable day. The sun shone, the golfers had a great time and the generosity of the participants meant we raised an impressive total.”
 
The Tommy Salisbury Choroideremia Committee has been raising money for research into choroideremia for over five years. Choroideremia is a rare genetic eye disorder that affects 10-year-old Tommy Salisbury. Although there is currently no cure for the condition, Fight for Sight funded researchers at Imperial College London are looking into new treatments.

Fight for Sight’s Director of Fundraising, Annu Mayor, said: “The Tommy Salisbury Choroideremia Committee put so much energy and enthusiasm into fundraising for choroideremia research and have once again organised a fantastic event. The research funded by the committee gives real hope to children, like Tommy, who are affected by this rare condition.”

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Louise Elliott at Fight for Sight on 020 7929 7755
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Notes 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 the causes of childhood blindness.