Matteo Stokes was born in May 2010, when they discovered he had a unilateral cataract.

Our local hospital told us that he would be fine in himself and even advised us not to operate even though after 6 weeks he would go blind in that eye, so we decided to get a second opinion. A friend gave me the name of one of the UK's top eye surgeons Ken Nischal at GOSH ophthalmology department and within 15 minutes he called me back and told me to bring my son up the following Tuesday and he will operate on the Thursday.

Without this advice and the skills of his team my son would of lost his eye sight in that eye. The operation was a success and they removed the cataract and hopefully he may have 30%-60% sight after 7 years in that eye, but we have a mountain to climb in the way of after care, this involves patching the eye for 6 hours a day together with fitting a contact lens and glasses which is not easy on a 5 month old baby.

Matteo is now 14 and has now been signed off from GOSH as the eye never improved but at least we gave it our best shot!

On Friday May 16th 2025 we are holding the 14th annual golf day!

(Cancelling years 2020/2021, due to covid)

Monies donated to GOSHCC to date:

2011 Year 1 - £8128

2012 Year 2 - £7400

2013 Year 3 - £8285

2014 Year 4 - £9400

2015 Year 5 - £11000

2016 Year 6 - £12,100

2017 Year 7 - £13,300

2018 Year 8 - £13,500

2019 Year 9 - £14,375

2020 Year 10 auction only due to Covid cancellation - £3341

2022 Year 11 - £15,568

2023 Year 12 - £17,000

2024 Year 13 - £16,000

So far £149,397

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