Win £2,500 cash in Fight For Sight's first fundraising raffle

Fight for Sight is offering cash prizes up to £2,500 in the first ever fundraising raffle. Funds raised from the raffle will support high quality research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease.

Tickets for the raffle are now on sale, the winners will be drawn on 20 November 2009.

Annu Mayor, Fight for Sight’s Director of Fundraising, is delighted to launch this new fundraising initiative: “We are really grateful for the fantastic response we received to previous appeals and are excited this time to offer our supporters a chance to win one of our great raffle prizes! The raffle is also an opportunity for people to find out more about Fight for Sight’s work and why funding research into blindness and eye disease is so important.”

For tickets call the Fight for Sight office on 020 7929 7755. The closing date for entries is 13 November.

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For more information contact Louise Elliott at Fight for Sight
020 7929 7755
press@fightforsight.org.uk

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Fight for Sight’s current research programme of £5 million focuses on preventing and treating age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and cataract as well as causes of childhood blindness.

Raffle tickets are available from the Fight for Sight office at £1 each. The closing date for entries is 13 November, the raffle will be drawn on 20 November. Further details of the raffle prizes and rules.