Legacies and Memory donations
Support from legacies and memory gifts are invaluable in helping us continue our vital research.
Over two million people in the UK live with sight loss.
A gift in your will has the power to fund groundbreaking research to discover new treatments and save sight. Thank you.
Memory gifts
Donations given in lieu of flowers helps ensure the continuation of our vital research.
We are very grateful for this generous support.
With your help we can change the lives of future generations who are at risk of blindness.
We remember our Legacy donors
Mrs Sheila Ashworth Mr John C Austin Mr Arthur Ayshford
Mr Malcolm E C Berrow Miss Diana Beveridge Mrs O J (Joan) Caldwell
Mrs Mahala (Micky) Curtis Mrs Olive Gore Mr R C Hawkins
Miss Margaret Jones Mrs M H Nicholas Mrs W N Raymond
Mrs Mollie P Whatley Mrs Eileen M Wilcocks Mr Fred and Mrs Mary Wilson
Mrs Marjorie Zealander
Mrs Olive (Joan) Caldwell
Joan was a huge supporter of Gift of Sight and frequently made the trip from Guernsey to attended our events. Her exceptionally generous legacy has funded a significant growth in our research team, particularly supporting projects into age-related macular degeneration. A good friend to our fundraising and research teams her sense of fun and her kindness will remain with us all.
Mrs M H Nicholas
Children's eye research in Southampton was given a huge boost from a generous legacy from Mrs Nicholas. She left her estate to be used to cure blindness in children. Her forethought means we have been able to move our paediatric research forward. Her kindness will be remembered by us all
Mrs Winifred M Raymond
Our adult research projects received a huge boost from a legacy left to Gift of Sight by Mrs Raymond. This was an unrestricted gift, helping us to fund scientists working on vital research projects.
Fred and Mary Wilson
Fred and Mary were good friends to Gift of Sight. We enjoyed visits to their home and were very sad to learn of Mary's death, followed within a short time by the loss of Fred. We miss the contact with them but their generous bequest has enabled us to continue funding scientists to continue studies into age-related macular degeneration.
Donations have been gratefully received in Memory of :
2020
Mr Rodney Bickley Mr Ken Chopping Mr Charles Cruse
Mrs Mahala (Micky) Curtis Mrs Betty Davis Mrs Maria Kyprian
Mr Richard Lawes Mrs Rene Matravers Mr Philip Round
Mrs Inger Ruffell
2019
Mrs Marjorie A Dymott Mrs Rose A M Gardner Mr Ernest Goddard
Mr Jason Robert Mair Smith Mrs Phyllis Melhuish Mrs Elizabeth (Betty) Packham
Mrs Frances (Kate) Reed Mr Anthony (Tony) Rowthorn Mrs Susan Symes
Mrs Gwendolyn Stephens Mrs Mariantonia Scappaticci
Mr Paul Thorne Miss Kathleen White
2018
Mrs Hazel Butler Mrs Doreen S Cook Mrs Queenie Cotton
Mrs Dorothy E Davies Mr Ewart Hanniford Mr John Mills
Mr Ralph Neale Mr J & Mrs M Rachel Margaret Stone
Mrs Andrea Wills
2017
Mr Richard Adams Mrs Marie-Luise Emilie Baker Mr David Colin Barnes
Mrs Maisie Brickell Mrs Jean Burgess Mr Ralph Cook
Mrs E D (Dorothy) Clarke Mrs Susan Corcoran Mrs Gladys May Dagg
Mrs Betty Freeston Mrs E D K (Kathleen) Gale Mrs Ellen E Jones
Mr James Cull McGrand Cdr William (Bill) Organ Mrs Edna Waters
Mrs Mary Whitson
2016
Mr John Colin Austin Mr Stanley W R Beavill Mrs (Olive) Joan Caldwell
Mrs Patricia Freemantle Mrs Rose Grant Mr Patrick Hannifan
Mrs Annie Hawkins and Mr Ronald Hawkins (2017) Mr W F (Bill) Munt
Mrs Nora Rosendale Mrs Juliette Spiller Mrs Doris Swanton
2015
Mr Roger G James Mr Kenneth E Lamper Mr John (Jack) McCarthy
Mr Bill Moger Mrs Audrey Newman Mr Eric Pardy
Mrs Margaret M Rowe Mr Geoffrey Salkeld Mrs B E M Wells
2014
Mr Joseph A Atkinson Mrs Betty Chopping Professor Andrew Elkington
Mr Philip H G Errington Mrs Sylvia Haywood Mrs Jean E Jackson
Mrs Ivy Newman Mrs Hilda Lily Painter Mr Eric C Pardy
Mrs Olive May Probert Mrs Dorothy Sayed-Ahmed Mr John D Symes
Mrs Marjorie Wise
2013
Mr Malcolm Berrow Mr Brian Beasley Mrs June Crothers
Mr M H L Evans Mrs Margaret George Mrs Mary Hird
Mr Kenneth George Ilett Mr Frank and Mrs Nancy Ketton
Mr Charles Le Moignan Mrs Caroline Lotery Mrs Hilda Misselbrook
Mrs Ethel Ann Yeates
2012
Mr Derek C Baldock Mrs Margery Bizet Mrs Joan Borkett
Mrs Ida R Chandler Mrs Evelyn Joyce Ebdon Mr Harry Hearley
Mrs Evelyn Irwin and Mr Isaac 'Jock' Irwin Mr John H Lemmon
Mr Neville P Macey Mrs Christine Marshall Mrs Nina Newton
Mrs M Pilich Mr Marshall Rodrigues Mr Norman Rowe
Mrs Dorothy Woodhouse
2011
Mrs Mary Beasley Mr Malcolm Berrow Mrs Florence Betteridge (
Mr D Boddy Mrs Doris Fletcher Mrs W E Hinton
Mrs D Jarvis Mr David T Jones Mr Raymond Marsh
Mr Alfred 'Kim' Mason Mrs Doris 'Kit' Mason Mrs Hermione Pickup
Mr Anthony Rixon Miss Mildred Slaughter
Mr Thomas Frederick Stephens Mr Simon Wrixon
2010
Mr C L Croucher Mr Robert Draper Mrs Gladys Fletcher
Mrs Irene Flooks Mrs Norah Green Mr Alan Jepson
Mrs Susan Knight Mrs Mary S Lee Mrs M P V Lines
Mr Arthur Page Mr G Pontin Mrs M G Tolley
Miss Eileen Topley Mrs Mary Turner