Rachel Butler & Edward Pearse's Wedding

Rachel Butler is raising money for Moorfields Eye Charity

Participants: Rachel Butler and Edward Pearse

Celebrating the wedding of Rachel Butler and Edward Pearse

on 3 September 2016

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We raise funds to enable Moorfields Eye Hospital to continue to provide the highest quality care for our patients and their families and to help ensure it remains a world-class centre of excellence for research and education. With your help we can deliver the best eye care and shape its future.

Story

We are lucky enough that you have travelled to France to share in our special day/weekend and so we have no gift list as such. However, if you would still like to give us a gift then it would mean the world to us if you made a donation to the research into Aniridia being carried out at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Our nephew, Finlay Butler, was diagnosed with this rare eye condition when he was just 6 weeks old back in November. Aniridia literally means “without iris” (http://www.rnib.org.uk/eye-health-eye-conditions-z-eye-conditions/aniridia), and will leave Finlay partially sighted/blind.

Children with Aniridia typically have some level of vision, for example Finlay can see at 6m what the rest of us can see at 130m. Unfortunately though this can degenerate further during childhood as Aniridia may also develop other eye conditions such as Nystagmus, Glaucoma, Cataracts, Keratopathy to name a few. 

Given the rare nature of Aniridia (~1 in 50,000) there are still a number of unanswered questions as to why and how some children with Aniridia develop further eye diseases and others do not and most importantly what can be done to combat this. The world renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital is partaking in a number of research studies, but requires further funding to see these through to fruition.

We thank you in advance for your support to this cause on our happy day.

Rachel & Ed x



Donation summary

Total
£4,786.96
Online
£4,786.96
Offline
£0.00

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