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Buy a ticket in our raffle superdraw for your chance to win £10,000!

You could be the next £10,000 winner!

The Macular Society runs a Superdraw Raffle twice a year in the Spring and in Autumn. By playing, you will be in with a chance to win big and help Beat Macular Disease.

Face-to-face fundraising gives people the opportunity to talk in person to one of our fundraisers. It allows members of the public to learn more about macular disease and the Macular Society.

We want to beat the fear and isolation of macular disease by funding research to find new and better treatments, and one day a cure.

Thanks to teams of researchers in the UK and worldwide who are dedicated to Beating Macular Disease, research is moving rapidly.

As you may know, or have heard from your eye doctor, there are some treatments available for some types of macular disease. For example, treatments for wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). However, there are still many types of macular disease where there are no pharmaceutical treatments available. We are dedicated to funding research to find new treatments to beat macular disease. 

What are stem cells?

Stem cells are cells that are naturally found in the body. These cells have the special ability of being able to form many different cell types. Researchers have also found ways of taking normal human cells, such as skin cells and turning them back into stem cells to become other cell types.

One of the main risk factors for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is increased age. Many other eye diseases, such as glaucoma and cataracts, also become more common as you grow older. This is partly due to changes that happen as we age and as the cells become more damaged over time.

You may have heard your eye doctor talk about how important diet and lifestyle changes can be on reducing risk, or slowing the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). While there can be genetic factors involved, environmental factors also play an important role in determining risk of AMD.