Moorfields Eye Charity launch new Eye to Eye fundraising event
Date: Sunday 22 March 2015
Registration fee: £10 for 4 mile and £15 for 14 mile
4 mile register here
14 mile register here
Moorfields Eye Charity has launched a brand new event, 'Eye to Eye', which will take place on Sunday 22nd March 2015. Walking from Moorfields Eye Hospital to the London Eye, participants can choose to take part in the four mile route along with chief executive, John Pelly, or the full 14 miles with Declan Flanagan, medical director. This mass participation, bespoke event is a first for the charity and aims to get as many patients, staff and supporters taking part as possible to raise awareness and sight-saving funds for the hospital.
Fundraisers can choose the area of research to benefit from the sponsorship they raise: glaucoma; age-related macular degeneration; diabetic retinopathy; retinal diseases; cornea and ocular surface diseases; children’s eye conditions; inherited eye disease/rare diseases; or wherever the need is greatest.
TV's Claudia Winkleman, Event Ambassador and Strictly Come Dancing presenter, also hopes to be able to take part and says "I am delighted to be supporting this exciting new event. I underwent laser surgery in 2010, after my vision really started to deteriorate. It was a frightening time but the operation was life-changing. I am so grateful to the fantastic staff at Moorfields, which is why I wanted to get involved. I hope you will too!"
How to register
Registration costs just £10 for the four mile route and when participants raise £75 they get a free charity t-shirt. The registration fee for the 14 mile route is £15 and fundraisers get a free charity t-shirt once £100 has been raised. There is no minimum sponsorship for this event but Moorfields Eye Charity would like to encourage walkers to raise as much as they can. Under 12s go free with every adult place on the shorter route.
To register online for the 14 mile route click here and register here for the four mile.
Call 020 7566 2486 or email eye2eye@moorfields.nhs.uk for more information.
Notes to editors
- Moorfields Eye Charity supports the incredible and pioneering work of Moorfields Eye Hospital and its research partner, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, making a difference for patients at the hospital and for people with sight problems around the world.
- We raise money to help the hospital provide the best possible care for its patients, educate the researchers and clinicians of tomorrow and support leading-edge research that aims to develop new treatments for blinding diseases.
- Moorfields is one of the world’s leading eye hospitals, providing expertise in clinical care, research and education. We have provided excellence in eye care for more than 200 years and we continue to be at the forefront of new breakthroughs and developments. We are an integral part of one of the UK’s first academic health science centres, UCL Partners, and also one of the new academic health science networks. We were one of the first NHS organisations to achieve foundation trust status in 2004.
- Moorfields is one of the world’s leading eye hospitals, providing expertise in clinical care, research and education. We have provided excellence in eye care for more than 200 years and we continue to be at the forefront of new breakthroughs and developments. We are an integral part of one of the UK’s first academic health science centres, UCL Partners, and also one of the new academic health science networks. We were one of the first NHS organisations to achieve foundation trust status in 2004.
- We treat the entire range of eye diseases, from common complaints to rare conditions which require treatments not available anywhere else in the UK. We dealt with more than 528,824 attendances in 2012/13 at our main hospital base in London’s City Road and at 21 other sites in and around the capital, enabling us to provide expert care closer to patients’ homes.
- With our research partners at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, we run one of the largest ophthalmic research programmes in the world and have the highest measure of scientific productivity and impact in the world for our research activity.
For further information, please visit www.moorfields.nhs.uk.
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