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Impact Report 2024

Moorfields Eye Charity's 2024 impact report covers six years of funding for eye health research, education and patient care, in partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL. It details 342 grants worth £49.85 million, progress on a new eye health centre opening in 2027, and the impact of patient support services on people living with sight loss.

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Funds research, education and patient care in partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, including grant-making, PhD and career development awards, equipment funding, and patient support services such as Eye Clinic Liaison Officers and counselling.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 £49.85 million awarded across 342 grants to Moorfields and UCL over six years
Key Metric 2 £72.75 million secured in philanthropic commitments for the new centre for advancing eye health
Key Metric 3 £60.05 million in income raised over the last six years

Key Outcomes

  • 96% of patients felt reassured after accessing Moorfields' patient support services
  • 93% said the knowledge and support they received helped them access community support
  • 98% of patients who accessed support services said they would recommend them to others with sight loss

Geography

London

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
Key Metric 2
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
Key Metric 3
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
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Key Metric 1
22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
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Key Metric 1
3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
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Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022