RETINA UK — grant history

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Latest income

£1.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£525k

Accounts grants total

£525k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The website provides a section titled 'Applying for research funding' but does not state whether applications are unsolicited or invitation-only, nor does it detail the submission process (e.g., form, email).

Summarised from www.retinauk.org.uk on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Islington (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	University of Southampton	—	£73k
new	University of Edinburgh	—	£60k
new	Manchester Metropolitan University	—	£50k
new	University College Dublin	—	£50k
up	UCL Institute of Ophthalmology	£39k	£116k
not listed	King’s College London	£126k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2025	£116k	An optimised human retinal organoid model for the study of inherited retinal diseases
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2025	£98k	Investigating Stargardt disease as a prime target for gene repair
Newcastle University	FY2025	£78k	ATCCF Fund / USH2A research
University of Southampton	FY2025	£73k	Investigating cone photoreceptor starvation in retinitis pigmentosa
University of Edinburgh	FY2025	£60k	RPGR role in cone-mediated disc formation
Manchester Metropolitan University	FY2025	£50k	Dissecting the impact of ageing on in vitro models of IRDs
University College Dublin	FY2025	£50k	Innovative Proteomic and Phosphoproteomic Profiling to Identify Regenerative Pathways
King’s College London	FY2024	£126k	Prof R Pearson
Newcastle University	FY2024	£89k	Prof M Lako
Newcastle University	FY2024	£88k	Prof M Lako
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2024	£39k	Prof J van der Spuy
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2023	£149k	Medical Research
Moorfields Eye Hospital	FY2023	£125k	Medical Research
Newcastle University	FY2023	£125k	Medical Research
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2023	£97k	Medical Research
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2023	£80k	Medical Research
UK Inherited Retinal Dystrophy Consortium	FY2023	£68k	Medical Research
University of Southampton	FY2023	£60k	Medical Research
University of Oxford	FY2023	£53k	Medical Research
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2023	£42k	Medical Research
University of Edinburgh	FY2023	£38k	Medical Research
Newcastle University	FY2022	£136k	Medical Research
UK Inherited Retinal Dystrophy Consortium	FY2022	£100k	Medical Research
Newcastle University	FY2022	£84k	Medical Research
Newcastle University	FY2022	£84k	Medical Research
Moorfields Eye Charity	FY2021	£91k	Grant donation for medical research from restricted RDH12 Fund
Radboud UMC, The Netherlands	FY2021	£44k	Grant awarded to Dr R Collin
Oxford University	FY2021	£40k	Grant awarded to Prof R MacLaren

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 525048 vs reference 525048 (0.0% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].