People we help
Shared stories
"Volunteering makes me feel worthwhile, I just love helping other people"
Posted: Wednesday 8 January 2025
In 2025, Jenny will have spent 16 years helping out at her local support group for people with macular disease. While she doesn’t have sight loss herself, she joined to follow in the footsteps of her late husband Alan who was a group volunteer.
“Counselling helped me express all the guilt”
Posted: Tuesday 7 January 2025
For two decades Jane has been dedicated to supporting her husband Ed since his diagnosis with macular disease. While she has always been firmly by his side, Jane admitted she has often felt a great sense of guilt – a feeling which resonates with many friends, family members or carers of people living with sight loss.
Architecture graduate with Stargardt wants to make buildings more inclusive
Posted: Monday 2 December 2024
A recent architecture graduate who is losing her sight to Stargardt disease, says the experience has motivated her to design everyday spaces that are accessible to everyone.
“Without counselling, I would have been left in the doldrums - I wasn't me anymore”
Posted: Thursday 28 November 2024
From nursery teaching to supporting people with dementia, Caroline had always associated herself as an outgoing and extraverted person - until her sight began to deteriorate.
"My Mauna Kea challenge was nothing compared to living with sight loss"
Posted: Tuesday 26 November 2024
An avid cyclist has completed a mammoth challenge of cycling the height of the world’s tallest mountain, in memory of his late wife who spent decades living with a rare macular condition.
"I see the floating heads of toothless, grinning medieval men"
Posted: Saturday 16 November 2024
Visions of medieval figures with open mouths and toothless grins have been some of the vivid images that Sheila started to see following her diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Charles Bonnet Syndrome Awareness Day 2024: Your experiences
Posted: Saturday 16 November 2024
Imagine spotting angels perched in trees, an infestation of flies, or even a familiar face from your past appearing in your living room.
“I hope Archie will never have to worry about losing his sight”
Posted: Monday 11 November 2024
When Sian was first diagnosed with Best disease, a rare genetic eye condition, she was just a child. She barely remembers the details, only that she got a day off school and visited the Tower of London. Decades later, the condition she had almost forgotten about resurfaced - this time, affecting her young son, Archie.
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