Every day, we work hard to break down barriers for people with sight loss.
Our Annual Report and Accounts charts the progress we’re making and tells the story of our financial year. It’s where you can learn about the work we do, people we’ve reached and impact we’ve made. Alongside the audited Annual Report and Accounts for 2024/25, we’ve brought together a few different stories to bring the stats from the report to life.
You can read the full Annual Report and Accounts for 2024/25, or read the key points below to get a snapshot of our recent successes, our current strategy and our ambitious plans for the future.
For over 150 years, the right to vote independently and in secret has been a cornerstone of democracy. Yet, for many blind and partially sighted people, this right remains elusive.
In 2024, we launched a dynamic, multi-faceted campaign using the local and general elections to highlight the need for widespread systemic change.
A hand dropping a folded ballot into a ballot box.
Eye Care Liaison Officers (ECLOs) provide vital practical and emotional support from the moment of diagnosis, helping blind and partially sighted people to feel more hopeful and confident about the future. Between 2024 and 2025, our ECLOs reached over 72,000 people.
Survey results show:
69 per cent of patients feel more able to manage the impact of the condition affecting their sight.
67 per cent of patients feel more positive about the future.
77 per cent of patients agree that they have been put in touch with the services they need or want.
86 per cent of patients feel more confident to ask for help when they need it.
84 per cent of patients that discussed the treatment they’re receiving, or were due to receive, with an ECLO had a better understanding of the treatment.
91 per cent of patients surveyed were satisfied with the ECLO service.
When we found out that only 2 in 5 people in the UK feel they have a good understanding of the lives of blind and partially sighted people – we knew we had to do something about it.
In response, RNIB and LADbible Group collaborated on Blind Hijackers, a groundbreaking campaign designed to challenge perceptions of blind and partially sighted people.
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We’ve built on the ambitious strategy RNIB launched last year. The new strategy has two key priorities and four objectives split between these priorities; it has three additional objectives to ensure RNIB is in the best place to deliver for blind and partially sighted people in the present and the future.
RNIB Group Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25 (PDF)
RNIB Group Annual Report and Accounts 2023/24 (PDF)
RNIB Group Annual Report and Accounts 2022/23 (PDF)
My name’s Joyce and I’m a long-standing supporter of RNIB - a charity extremely close to my heart. Moray, my husband of 18 years, lost his sight in his left eye and has reduced vision in the right due to congenital glaucoma. Jodie and Greg, our two children, were born with Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis, a condition which results in severe vision loss and many other knock-on effects. Greg sadly passed away six years ago, age 24, after a long battle with chronic kidney disease.
Lauryn Brown has a rare form of uveitis that affects her left eye. Uveitis is an autoimmune condition that can result in macular scarring and sight loss. Lauryn also suffers from health-related anxiety and found relief through running. After connecting with RNIB, she ran the London Marathon in the RNIB bib to raise money for others with sight loss.
Peter Middleton (56) had very little useful vision in his left eye, unbeknownst to him, until a traumatic accident at work left him without vision in his right eye. Pete found it difficult to ask for help from loved ones, which caused him to experience severe depression, leading him down a dark road. Through RNIB’s Sight Loss Counselling service, he was able to open up about what he was experiencing and learn tools to cope, crediting it with saving his life.
Remi McDonald, age 7, is severely visually impaired from birth – she has Aniridia, Nystagmus and Cataracts in both eyes and also has Photophobia. Her mother Sukhi talks about Remi's sight condition and the invaluable support they have received from an ECLO (Eye Care Liaison Officer) at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
