INTERNATIONAL GLAUCOMA ASSOCIATION LIMITED — grant history

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Latest income

£2.5m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£1.6m

Accounts grants total

£814k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

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

Education/training (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Disability (1 grantee)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Cardiff (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology	—	£425k
new	University College London	—	£144k
new	University of Liverpool	—	£100k
new	City University London	—	£43k
new	University of Surrey	—	£8k
up	Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	£96k	£475k
up	Liverpool University	£50k	£100k
down	Fight for Sight	£22k	£8k
not listed	Ulster University	£100k	—
not listed	Queens University Belfast	£99k	—
not listed	University College London’s Institute of Ophthalmology - Glaucoma UK Chair Fund	£75k	—
not listed	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	£50k	—
not listed	CARDIFF UNIVERSITY	£49k	—
not listed	University of Plymouth	£48k	—
not listed	Nottingham University Hospital	£26k	—
not listed	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	£25k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	FY2025	£475k	Grant Award
University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2025	£425k	Pitts Crick Career Development Fellowship (Dr Giovanni Montesano)
University College London	FY2025	£144k	Grant Award
University of Liverpool	FY2025	£100k	Grant Award (Dr Lucy Bosworth)
Liverpool University	FY2025	£100k	Grant Award
University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2025	£90k	Grant Award (Associate Professor Kuang Hu)
University College London	FY2025	£79k	Glaucoma UK Chair Fund
University of Birmingham	FY2025	£50k	Grant Award
University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2025	£50k	Joint UKEGS and Glaucoma UK Grant (Dr Bledi Petriti)
University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2025	£50k	Grant Award (Dr Colin Chu)
City University London	FY2025	£43k	Grant Award
Fight for Sight	FY2025	£8k	Grant Award
University of Surrey	FY2025	£8k	Joint Small Grant Programme with Fight for Sight (Dr Ngan Pan Bennett Au)
University College London	FY2025	£5k	Co-Funded Project (Dr Keir Yong)
Ulster University	FY2024	£100k	Research
University of Birmingham	FY2024	£100k	Research
Queens University Belfast	FY2024	£99k	Research
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	FY2024	£96k	Research
University College London’s Institute of Ophthalmology - Glaucoma UK Chair Fund	FY2024	£75k	Glaucoma UK Chair Fund
Liverpool University	FY2024	£50k	Research
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	FY2024	£50k	Research
Cardiff University	FY2024	£49k	Research
University of Plymouth	FY2024	£48k	Research
Nottingham University Hospital	FY2024	£26k	Research (Related Party)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	FY2024	£25k	Research
Fight for Sight	FY2024	£22k	Research
Anglia Ruskin University	FY2024	£10k	Research
Dr Giovanni Montesano of Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	FY2023	£100k	RCOphth Research Award: Mapping clinical trial outcomes to individuals for personalised glaucoma care
University College London	FY2023	£73k	Glaucoma UK Chair of Ophthalmology (Professor David (Ted) Garway-Heath)
Professor Augusto Azuara-Blanco	FY2023	£50k	Open Call Research Award: Effect of an Oral, Peripherally-restricted Synthetic Cannabinoid, ART27.13, on Intraocular Pressure: A Pilot Randomised Cross-Over Study
Professor James Morgan of Cardiff University	FY2023	£50k	UK & Éire Glaucoma Society (UKEGS) Research Award: Targeted microglial inhibition for the protection of retinal ganglion cells in glaucoma
Dr Ruth Hogg, of Queen’s University, Belfast	FY2023	£50k	Open Call Research Award: Ten year follow up on the NICOLA study (progression of glaucoma)
Dr Paul Artes, University of Plymouth	FY2023	£50k	Open Call Research Award: Visual fields in glaucoma – investigating the potential of “abundant testing” with virtual reality perimetry
Dr Victor Hu of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	FY2023	£25k	Additional funding for 2019 RCOphth Award project: Detecting glaucoma using a combination of low-cost, portable and easy to perform tests
Anglia Ruskin University	FY2023	£10k	UK National Eye and Hearing Study (UKNEHS) Phase 1
Dr Ester Reina-Torres (Imperial College London)	FY2023	£8k	Small Grants Award (in partnership with Fight for Sight): Novel Cell Therapy Approach to Reduce IOP in Glaucoma Via Nitric Oxide Production
Dr Ameenat Solebo (University College London)	FY2023	£8k	Small Grants Award (in partnership with Fight for Sight): ARGO-1: Study of Anterior Segment Imaging-based Risk Stratification of Childhood Secondary Glaucoma
Dr Julie Albon (Cardiff University)	FY2023	£8k	Small Grants Award (in partnership with Fight for Sight): Spatial transcriptomic profiling to detect cell-specific mechanosensitive mechanisms within human optic nerve heads – a pilot study
Ulster University	FY2022	£100k	Royal College of Ophthalmologists Award, Professor Colin Willoughby, Ulster University, ‘Development of a disease modifying biologic therapy’
Cardiff University Hospital	FY2022	£98k	PhD Studentship, Dr Ben Mead, Cardiff University Hospital ‘Exosomes as a therapy for glaucoma’
University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology	FY2022	£66k	Glaucoma UK Chair Fund
Nottingham University Hospital	FY2022	£57k	Royal College of Ophthalmologists Award, Professor Anthony King, Nottingham University Hospital, ‘Translating the complications of glaucoma surgery into meaningful everyday consequences for glaucoma patients’
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Edinburgh	FY2022	£45k	Open Call Award, Dr Andrew Tatham, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Edinburgh, ‘Evaluation of a new low-cost applanation tonometer (Newton)’
Fight for Sight	FY2022	£2k	Research grant

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 1624926 vs reference 814470 (99.5% 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 and want a correction, contact us.