What a way to start the New Year!
Last Christmas, we gave you our ask: help us raise £20,000 for sight-saving future research projects. Throughout December 2025, we partnered with Newmedica for a second year running to carry out our ‘Seeing is Believing’ festive fundraiser. We have once again been blown away by the unrelenting kindness and generosity of our community.
So, we are delighted to announce that your doubled gifts bring this year’s total to an impressive £26,220!
Not only did we exceed our fundraising target, but together we also set a new record for our Christmas appeal. Every donation, whether large or small, played an important role in helping us reach this incredible milestone. From long-standing supporters and patients to fundraisers, volunteers and first-time donors, this achievement belongs to everyone who chose to support sight-saving research.
We cannot thank you enough. Every gift you gave during December will help fund innovative research aimed at finding new ways to treat and prevent blindness. By supporting eye research today, you are helping to create hope for future generations affected by sight loss and eye disease.
The success of this year’s campaign demonstrates the growing commitment of our supporters to advancing sight-saving research. With your help, Sight Research UK can continue funding pioneering projects that seek to improve understanding of eye conditions and support the development of new treatments that could change lives.
As we look ahead to the year ahead, we remain inspired by the generosity of our supporters and partners. Thank you for helping make our 2025 Christmas campaign our most successful festive fundraiser yet. We look forward to sharing the impact of the research your donations help make possible.
“We are overjoyed to announce this year’s Christmas campaign result, smashing the previous year’s total of £25,135.
Your support year-on-year truly makes a difference. We are also extremely grateful to Newmedica, whose team has once again gone above and beyond to double every donation made to eye research this season.
Together, we have achieved something extraordinary. Thank you.”
Lucy Culkin, Chief Executive
