# Fight for Sight opens fundraising event to other sight loss charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/06/25/fight-sight-opens-fundraising-event-other-sight-loss-charities/
- Published: 2012-06-25T13:46:24+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Fight for Sight, the charity that funds pioneering eye research to prevent sight
loss and treat eye disease, is offering places in its annual Carrots NightWalk to
other sight loss and vision charities across the UK.

Six charities, including the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, the International Glaucoma
Association, the Macular Disease Society, Nystagmus Network, Olivia’s Vision and
RP Fighting Blindness, have already signed up for the event which takes place in
London on 21 September 2012. Their supporters can make use of these places to fundraise
for their charity.

Partner charities pay for their places, so participants who take a place from a 
partner charity will fundraise for that charity and all funds they generate go directly
to the partner charity. People taking a Fight for Sight place will fundraise for
Fight for Sight.

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‘See London in the dark’ is the event’s strapline.

Michele Acton, Chief Executive of Fight for Sight, said: “The 2011 Fight for Sight
Carrots NightWalk was extremely successful, raising over £58,000 to support our 
work in making sight loss a thing of the past. This year we felt that the Carrots
NightWalk would be a fantastic way to for us to join forces with other organisations
and work together to do even more to bring hope to people living without sight.

“Whether Carrots NightWalk participants choose to support Fight for Sight or the
important work of other sight loss charities, everyone taking part will be helping
to create a future everyone can see, and we are delighted that so many organisations
across the charity sector are coming together to address sight loss in such an innovative
way.”

www.fightforsight.org.uk/carrots

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