Health & Wellbeing 2025
Moorfields Eye Charity

Impact Report 2025

Moorfields Eye Charity is the UK's leading charity funding eye health research and innovation, supporting Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. Their 2025 impact report covers the first four years of their 2021–2027 strategy, with 263 grants totalling nearly £60 million awarded, including £34 million towards the new Oriel eye health centre due to open in 2026/27.

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Research grants, gene therapy, inherited eye disease, myopia, clinical trials, innovation in patient care, staff development, education, Explain.Health AI patient communication tool, children's sensory equipment Custom geography from upload: London / International

📊Key Metrics

263 grants worth almost £60 million awarded over four years (2021–2025) Key Metric 1
£34 million of grant funding committed to new Oriel integrated eye health centre (opening 2026/27) Key Metric 2
£72.75 million secured in commitments for Oriel in partnership with UCL; 342 grants awarded 2018–2024 Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Four children gained life-changing improvements in sight following pioneering gene therapy treatment funded by the charity
  • £3.1 million invested with Medical Research Foundation in 11 new childhood and adolescent eye health research projects covering uveitis, myopia, retinoblastoma and more
  • AI tool developed with charity support now improving diagnosis of inherited retinal diseases; Explain.Health platform simplifying medical letters for patients via AI

📍Geography

UK-Wide

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