MEC_Impact Report_2026 - Flipbook - Page 22
Impact Report 2026
Strategic objective 5:
Shape national policy on eye
health research
People affected by sight loss bring invaluable insight to research, policy
and practice. By supporting programmes that amplify lived experience
and create opportunities for meaningful involvement, Moorfields Eye
Charity is helping ensure that the voices of patients, families and
communities help shape the future of eye health.
Influencing change
through lived
experience
The NHS 10-Year Health Plan
places a strong emphasis on
Jay Seymour and friends at Eye to Eye
prevention, reducing health
inequalities and ensuring that
for blind and partially sighted
he had benefitted from the
patients and communities
people interested in research,
internship:
have a greater voice in
grant-making and charity
shaping healthcare.
administration through TPT’s
Working at Moorfields
Get Set Progress scheme,
Eye Charity is particularly
At Moorfields Eye Charity, we
which has been supporting
meaningful to me. It connects
are reflecting these priorities
employment opportunities for
my personal experience with
through our investment in
people with eye conditions for
a wider purpose - supporting
programmes that empower
a number of years.
others who are affected by
people with lived experience
eye conditions and helping
to influence research, services
The nine-month programme
to raise awareness. Knowing
and opportunities for others.
provides valuable professional
that the work I do in the
experience while creating a
grants team is to help fund
Two examples from the past
pathway into careers that are
towards different schemes
year show how this approach
sometimes difficult to access
into research and testing
is creating change at both a
for people with sight loss.
brings a great comfort
national and international level.
to me.
The charity welcomed its first
22
In 2026, Moorfields Eye Charity
intern, Jay Seymour, who
We are delighted that Jay has
partnered with Thomas
was diagnosed with retinitis
now become a permanent
Pocklington Trust (TPT) to
pigmentosa (RP) at the age
part of the team at Moorfields
launch a new paid internship
of twelve. Jay explained how
Eye Charity.
