Sight loss community raises £91,000 in Moorfields Eye Charity fundraising walk

Around 600 participants joined the annual Eye to Eye walk in London on Sunday 28 June

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Five participants wearing matching yellow event T-shirts and blue finisher medals smile for a group photo beneath a "FINISH" banner at the Moorfields Eye Charity event. One participant has an arm around another's shoulders, while others wear headphones or glasses. Trees, event flags and spectators are visible in the background, creating a celebratory finish-line atmosphere

Moorfields Eye Charity

07 July 2026

More than £91,000 has been raised as part of Moorfields Eye Charity’s 2026 Eye to Eye walk, which took place in London on Sunday 28 June.

Almost 600 participants took part in the walk, which started at the Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre, next to Moorfields Eye Hospital.

A one-mile route covered the streets around Moorfields Eye Hospital, and included an eye-spy trail for young participants.

Five-mile and half-marathon options took participants past the new Moorfields and UCL Centre for Eye Health, which is due to open in 2027, as well as sights including Tower Bridge.

It is the first time that the Eye to Eye walk has offered a half marathon option.

The annual walk raises funds to support research into eye health and innovation and improvement in patient care.

It is the 12^th time Moorfields Eye Charity has held the walk, with £1.1 million being raised since it began in 2015.

Moorfields staff, as well as patients and their families, took part in the 2026 event.

One patient who joined this year’s event was Max Levey, who was diagnosed with congenital bilateral ptosis in 2005, when he was three months old.

Levey, who is now 21 and a university student, had an operation at Moorfields when he was seven months old, which allowed him to see for the first time.

Since joining the Eye to Eye walk for the first time in 2020, Levey and his team have raised more than £22,000.

His mother, Caroline Levey, said: “Moorfields saved my son’s sight. I’m walking Eye to Eye because it is the most important charity for my family.

“We could never have imagined how much Max has achieved in school, at university and his work placement year if he had not had sight-saving surgery, and that’s thanks to Moorfields.”

Max Levey credited Moorfields Eye Hospital with his ability to go sky-diving the following weekend, as well as with a predicted first in his university degree.

“I cannot thank Moorfields enough, and walking Eye to Eye is the least I can do to give back,” he said.

Fundraising for the Eye to Eye walk is still open at the time of writing. Find out more online.