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In 1987, Elizabeth Thomas was dismayed by the lack of support that she, and other people with macular disease, were offered. She founded the Macular Disease Society to help patients like her support each other.

We’re here for everyone with a macular condition. Our vision is to end macular disease – and this is how.

The Macular Society’s Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP) is a vital group dedicated to ensuring that the voices of people affected by macular disease are heard and considered in shaping services and support.

Our vision

We will end macular disease.

Research Strategy 2020 – 2030

We are one of the only sight loss charities in the UK that actively funds and drives research into macular disease. Every year, more people lose their sight to conditions like age-related macular degeneration (AMD). As vision deteriorates, many experience frustration, fear, grief and isolation — and urgently need hope for the future.

Thank you for supporting the Macular Society, and being part of our mission to Beat Macular Disease.

Research – including projects that you’ve helped to fund – is getting closer to a cure every year. With your continued support, we will end macular disease, and the isolation, loneliness and frustration that so often come with it.

Three charities, the Macular Society, Blind Veterans UK and Sight Scotland Veterans have come together to transform the funding of research on age-related macular disease (AMD).

"I am so grateful for the research that’s going on. It might not mean a difference to my life because my eyes are really bad, but it could change my children’s life. It could mean that there’s something that could help them, or their children and they could go on and be a pilot like their grandad or drive a car, or be a bomb disposal expert – or something you really need your sight for.