Gift of Sight works with businesses, trusts and foundations to support pioneering research at the University of Southampton. Together, we are funding projects that aim to:
- Develop new treatments for sight loss
- Improve diagnosis and patient outcomes
- Advance research into rare and complex eye conditions
Eye disease can affect vision in patients of all ages. Your support can help bring new discoveries closer to sight-saving treatments.
Building meaningful partnerships
We aim to build meaningful partnerships with our supporters. Where possible, we offer opportunities to engage more closely with our work, including hearing directly from researchers.
By working with us, you can:
- Support cutting-edge medical research
- Demonstrate your commitment to health and innovation
- Engage employees through fundraising and volunteering opportunities
- Make a tangible difference to people affected by sight loss
Ways to support our work
Corporate partnerships
If your organisation chooses a Charity of the Year, we’d be delighted if you considered Gift of Sight.
Your support could help fund pioneering eye research while bringing colleagues together through fundraising activities, workplace events and sponsored challenges. Whatever form your support takes, every contribution helps move vision research forward.
Fundraising and events
Support our research through team fundraising, sponsored challenges or workplace events. We also welcome support for our events through:
- Event sponsorship
- Providing raffle or auction prizes
- In-kind support such as venues or services
These contributions play an important role in helping us raise vital funds for eye research and often has the added benefit of raising awareness of our work. Please get in touch to discuss opportunities.
Trusts and Foundations
Funding from trusts and foundations plays a vital role in enabling our researchers to continue their work and invest in essential equipment and resources.
Do you have a connection to a charitable trust or foundation? Whether you’re a trustee, board member or can introduce us to a potential funder, we’d be delighted to speak with you about how your support could help advance life-changing eye research
Payroll giving
Encourage employees to support Gift of Sight through regular giving, helping provide ongoing funding for research.
The impact of your support
Support from businesses and trusts is already helping to drive innovation in our vision science laboratories.
Recent contributions have supported:
- Research into children’s eye conditions
- Development of new diagnostic tools
- Equipment and resources for laboratory research
We are incredibly grateful to the organisations and individuals who partner with us to make this work possible.
Whether you’re a local business or a national organisation, we would love to explore how we can work together.
Thank you to the business who have helped us in recent years:
Grateful thanks to Event Logic Productions for providing technical services for the live broadcast and recording of the recent Beating Blindness hybrid lecture.
Thank you to Bluewater for supporting paediatric research in the vision science team.
Thanks to the Trustees of The de Laszlo Foundation for ongoing support for Professor Andrew Lotery.
Thank you to Butterflies Healthcare for your ongoing support for Gift of Sight events and your generosity shown towards our vision research team.
Thank you to the Southampton office of BDP Pitmans and to the Trustees of BDB Pitmans LLP Charitable Trust for generous support for our research studies.
Grateful thanks to The Hendy Foundation for providing iPads to support children’s eye research.
Thanks to the team at South Eye Clinic for donations supporting children’s eye research projects.
Delighted to receive support from Mr Andrew Luff and his team at Sapphire Eye Care. Grateful thanks for your ongoing help.
Our thanks to David Anderson, for all your fantastic work with eye patients and your ongoing support for our vision research team.
Our thanks to Stephen Lash and his team for ongoing care to patients and support in helping promote our vision research.