Thanks for taking the time to visit Ryan's JustGiving page.

I intend to jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane in the name of Charity, along with a few people from local businesses, and I need your help in raising the money!

I'm doing this in support of the Royal National Institute for the Blind to help raise awareness of the work they do.  Charities like the RNIB don't get anywhere near as much attention as some of the big ones (i.e. Cancer charities), but their work is just as important.

50% of people who go blind needn't have, thanks to advances in treatment of eye conditions, but they need to be caught early.  Prevention is better than cure with treating potentially blinding eye conditions, and that's where the RNIB come in.

Yes... I'm terrified!  But it's all for a good cause, so donate away please!

Loads of facts below - see more here - https://www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/facts-and-figures-about-issues-around-sight-loss/

"There are almost two million people in the UK living with sight loss. This figure includes around 360,000 people registered as blind or partially sighted in the UK, who have severe and irreversible sight loss.” (Access Economics, 2009)

"Over 50% of sight loss can be avoided." (Access Economics, 2009)

"There are almost 25,000 blind and partially sighted children in Britain. That is equal to 2 in 1,000 children. As many as half of these children may have other disabilities." (Morris and Smith, Educational Provision, 2008)

"The number of people in the UK with sight loss is set to increase dramatically. It is predicted that by 2050 the number of people with sight loss in the UK will double to nearly four million"(Access Economics, 2009)

"Sight loss affects people of all ages. Sight loss affects people of all ages but especially older people: 1 in 5 people aged 75 and 1 in 2 aged 90 and over are living with sight loss."(Access Economics, 2009)

"Two-thirds of registered blind and partially sighted people of working age are not in paid employment." (Douglas et al, Network 1000, 2006)

"Nearly half of blind and partially sighted people feel ‘moderately’ or ‘completely’ cut off from people and things around them." (Pey, Nzegwu and Dooley, 2006)

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