Why leave a gift to Fight for Sight
Join the mission to Save Sight. Change Lives.
When someone you love starts to lose their sight, you want to know what can be done. Too often, the answers are not there yet.
You can help change that.
A gift in your will provides researchers with the funding they need to pursue discoveries that will one day save sight. It can also help blind and vision impaired people find connection, confidence, and new opportunities.
This is why Fight for Sight matters: we fund research that drives the future of vision loss treatment and social change that improves lives today.
Every six minutes someone in the UK hears that they will lose their sight. Other losses follow: friendships, relationships, the self-confidence to step outside the front door. With your gift, we can create a future where no one faces vision loss alone.
Without a valid will, the law decides how your estate is distributed. A will gives you control over what happens to your money, property, and possessions; you can provide for the people you care about and the causes you would like to support long into the future.
“I’ve supported Fight for Sight with a gift in my will because of the research it funds and the difference it can make for people affected by sight loss, offering hope and support when they may have nowhere else to turn.”
In the last five years
We're so grateful to the hundreds of people who have left us a gift in their will. Gifts can be pecuniary or residuary.
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- £5,000
- The average pecuniary gift to us
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- £52,000
- The average residuary gift left to us
A lasting legacy
Entrust us with your legacy, and we’ll use our experience and expertise to prevent and treat vision loss.
In 2010, Professor Michel Michaelides received the Hans and Mrs Gertrude Hirsch award from Fight for Sight. The funding was for research into new treatments for the inherited disease achromatopsia. That funding led to clinical trials in children and adults with the condition.
Professor Michaelidis said: “One of my biggest learnings is to never take anything for granted or at face value, especially if there’s a dogma or a belief that this can’t be done or that something is impossible to treat.”
The best example of that is his research into one of the most severe forms of Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA) a condition that presents at birth or in early childhood.
Prof. Michaelides was the lead investigator and lead author. “We were presenting at a closed meeting with retina specialists and a paediatric retina specialist came up to us and said, ‘you've cured blindness’.”
You can be a part of our mission to Save Sight. Change Lives.
A gift in your will can go towards funding groundbreaking research programmes such as Dr Mervyn Thomas' work on the fovea. Or your gift can be used to bring joy, connection and adventure to young children with the rare condition, Usher Syndrome.
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Leaving a gift in your will could help save sight and change lives long into the future. Get your guide today and find out more about how we can support you to write or update your will for free.
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