Jig with a pig fundraiser for Fight for Sight

Fight for Sight’s Bath Committee organised a summer fundraising evening on 5 June to raise funds for eye research.

Guests enjoyed music from the Rob Walker Band, a hog roast and a fundraising auction offering fantastic prizes including a hot air balloon flight and a holiday in a Spanish villa.

Eric Snook from Midford is Chairman of the Bath Committee, he said: “The event was a great success and we are delighted the funds raised will support Fight for Sight’s research programme. 25,000 children in the UK are affected by sight loss and we want to support research to help reduce this figure.”

Fight for Sight, the UK’s largest eye research charity, is currently funding research into age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, cataract and the causes of childhood blindness.

Annu Mayor, Fight for Sight’s Director of Fundraising, said: “Every year the Bath Committee organise really imaginative fundraising events. We are very fortunate to have the support of our regional committees whose fundraising enables Fight for Sight to fund vital research into ways of treating eye disease and preventing sight loss in the future.”

The event was also raising funds for a new building for Norton St Philip School and Pre-School.

For more information
call Louise Elliott at Fight for Sight on 020 7929 7755
or email press@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 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.