London to Paris cycle challenge for Fight for Sight supporter

Adrian Neal, from Fylde optometrists GR Hardwick, will take on the 300km cycle challenge from London to Paris to raise money for eye research.

Adrian and his team mates will set off from London on 25 June and will cycle to the Eiffel Tower in just three days. Funds raised from his cycle ride will support the vital eye research funded by Fight for Sight.

Adrian says: “I am really looking forward to the challenge ahead. Fight for Sight is a great charity and I am really pleased to be able to support the important research they fund.

"Working for an optician I know how important research is for preventing sight loss in the future.  It is also a cause that is personal to me. My mother has recently been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration so knowing I am supporting Fight for Sight research into conditions like AMD will make all the steep climbs and sore legs worthwhile.”

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.

To support Adrian’s fundraising visit: www.justgiving.com/Adrian-Neal

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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.