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Senior leadership team
Our people
Our senior executive team is made up of our chief executive, Ed Holloway and six senior staff across a variety of areas such as data and insights, research, finance, HR, fundraising and services. Learn more about the people who lead our mission of Beating Macular Disease.
Our history
Our organisation
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.
What we do
Who we are
We’re here for everyone with a macular condition. Our vision is to end macular disease – and this is how.
Our vision and mission
What we do
Our vision
We will end macular disease.
Our research strategy
What we do
Research Strategy 2020 – 2030
We are one of the few sight loss charities that actively fund and support research into macular disease. Every year, the number of people losing their sight to macular disease rises – and as their sight fades, too many of them are overcome by frustration, grief, fear and isolation.
Our supporter promise
What we do
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.
Action against age-related macular degeneration (AAAMD)
What we do
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).
People we help
Who we are
Read the latest stories of people we help via the support services we offer.
Kate's story
People we help
Macular disease. Nobody had heard of it at all 20 years ago. And there is still no cure today.
Two of my three sons have been diagnosed now too
People we help
"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.