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Shaping national policy
In conversation with
one of our donors
As a valued donor supporting Moorfields
Eye Charity’s partnership with the
Medical Research Foundation, Georgina
Bramwell, trustee of the Banham
Foundation Limited shares their thoughts
on the important initiative.
Georgina Bramwell
What’s your connection to Moorfields
What impact do you hope to see from
Eye Hospital and the charity?
your support?
We love to support initiatives that are
We want to make sure that this investment
benefitting our wider community, and this was
into childhood eye research helps to give
a great fit for us. When we met the charity for
children better outcomes, a better chance of
the first time, the trustees and I realised that
living life to the full, and the ability to do the
all of us had a connection to Moorfields, either
things that children should do. Supporting
personally, or through a close family member.
the next generation is important, it’s part of
I took my older brother to the A&E department
our ethos. We’re a family business and
there years ago, when he had an issue with his
Foundation, and we want to help families who
eye, and they were fantastic. There wasn’t a
are impacted by childhood sight loss to access
question of where we should go, we thought,
better care and treatment pathways through
“he’s hurt his eye, let’s go to Moorfields”.
accelerated research.
Investment into childhood eye research helps to give children better outcomes, a better
chance of living life to the full, and the ability to do the things that children should do.
Georgina Bramwell
What motivated you to support funding
What advice would you give to other
for children and adolescent eye health
foundations or donors considering
research?
supporting the charity?
As a Foundation, we weren’t aware of the
Take time to understand the needs of the
challenges in funding research in eye health
charity and ask questions. The thing that really
and particularly children’s eye health, so it
resonated with us was hearing the patient
was meaningful for us to make a difference in
stories. It was these stories that helped us
this area. Many of us on a personal level are
understand the difference that our support
parents or grandparents of young children, so
could make. Having had a positive experience
it resonated that we wanted to do something
partnering with Moorfields Eye Charity, we would
to support future generations of children who
recommend others to consider supporting this
could benefit from this research.
fantastic charity that does such important work.
