About Us

Fight for Sight is a registered charity. We raise money through individual donations and through people who fundraise by taking part in events such as the London Marathon or Swim Serpentine. We also work with philanthropists and wealthy individuals and in partnership with private companies and corporations. We are registered with the fundraising regulator. 

We invest in early-stage science and scientists working to help us better understand, prevent, diagnose, and treat vision loss. We offer various grants throughout the year.

Thanks to our funding, researchers are working in labs across the UK. 

We also invest in understanding what it means to be blind or vision impaired in the UK. We use the insights we gather to guide our investments in social change. We're funding projects building a sense of connection between young people, connections to nature and forging partnerships. 

We run grant rounds across the year, and you can apply for funding if you're a scientist conducting eye research, an organisation working with blind and vision impaired people, or a person in one of our focus areas. 

We have a rigorous review process and are grateful to have experienced panels, including the Social Impact Grants Assessment Panel (SGAP) and Research Grants Assessment Panel, advising our decision-making. 

Our analysis shows Fight for Sight’s expertise in identifying and carrying out research with a greater impact than that of other, often bigger, funders and among the best in the world.

Fight for Sight publications receive 80% more citations and are twice as likely to be highly cited than the world average. This is partly because we invest in early-stage research, enabling researchers to apply for future funding, which often leads to clinical trials and treatments. 

We fund research into what it means to be blind or vision impaired.

What we discover guides the projects we fund - for example, tackling loneliness and isolation by funding projects that connect people to nature, which improves their mental health. 

We exist to: Save Sight. Change Lives. 

Fight for Sight is a funder and a re-granter. The money we raise through our fundraising activities is invested in scientific research and social change. Our mission statement is that:

"We fund the brilliant minds and bright ideas, putting change in sight for everyone impacted by vision loss."

Our values guide everything we do. Our values statement is that:

Together, we are bold, tenacious, informed, optimistic.