Eye to Eye 2026
Sunday 28 June 2026
Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre, Peerless Street, London EC1V 9NU
Free to £20 registration
£100 minimum sponsorship
Eye to Eye returns for it’s 12th year and it’s set to be the best yet! You’ll be walking past our new centre for advancing eye health - Moorfields Eye Hospital City Road, Moorfields Eye Charity and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology are coming together under one roof.
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Choose your challenge and book your place with registration starting at just £8 - children under 16 walk for free.
Book nowThis June, people of all ages and abilities will be coming together to walk through the streets of London. Under sunny skies, patients, their loved ones, staff, and researchers are uniting to raise vital funds for Moorfields.
Choose your challenge with a new distance for 2026!
- 1 mile
- 5 miles
- Half marathon (13.1 miles)
Our 1 mile route will explore the quiet, historically interesting streets around Moorfields Eye Hospital. The 5 and half marathon routes will pass the exciting future home of Moorfields Eye Hospital, Moorfields Eye Charity and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in Camden due to open in 2027 - your fundraising will be supporting this incredible new future for eye care.
Watch the highlights from 2025!
We will be your biggest cheerleaders!
Walks start and end at our event village, located outside our Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre on Peerless Street.
There you’ll find a raffle, free hot drinks from our friends Starbucks, live music, craft stalls, ice cream van, a children’s activity corner and food truck. There is always lots of fun!
Who will be at the event village?
Learn more
- Hair and Care - Hair & Care is a Hackney based non profit that supports blind and low vision women and girls with accessible hairstyling and education through free, monthly workshops. These sessions are designed to build confidence and self-expression, provide social connection and reduce isolation. Founded by hairstylist Anna Cofone, and inspired by her lived experience growing up with a blind parent, Hair & care has supported over 500 individuals, holding 60+ workshops and community events since 2019.
- Bloomsbury Football - Playing weekly with specialist coaches in para-disability, partially sighted and blind football. Come try out their specially adapted footballs which make football accessible to all.
- Martial Attitude - Training offers a safe and supportive environment to foster the progressive acquisition of transferable skills in spatial navigation and body posture particularly important in social settings, for greater physical and psychological wellbeing. Based in Haggerston.
Interested at volunteering at Eye to Eye?
We need a crew of kind volunteers to help our day go with a bang! Email hibah.saleh@nhs.net to find out more and join our energetic cheer squad.
We ask all adult walkers to fundraise a minimum of £100, although anything you can raise makes a difference.
Our fundraising team will be here to support you every step of the way to help you achieve your target. Don’t want to fundraise but still want to take part? You can choose to self-fund when registering.
What your fundraising could help us achieve
£100 could support a PhD student such as Mahtab Farahbakhsh who used her research to develop fun, engaging and accurate eye tests for children, helping to improve our understanding of how vision develops.
£250 could support patient services such as our pioneering eye clinic liaison officers (ECLOs), offering comprehensive emotional, psychological and practical support to those when they need it the most.
£1,000 could support a Career Development Award such as one recently given to Dr Davide Zecchin, exploring the mechanisms underlying uveal melanoma that could help identify new therapeutic targets and treatment strategies.
What you’ll get as part of your Eye to Eye experience
- An Eye to Eye t-shirt
- Our newsletter including fundraising tips and inspiring Moorfields stories
- Any support and advice you might need from our fundraising team
- Finishers medal
- Printed map on the day
Need some extra support during your walk or looking for a companion? Let us know when you register and we can pair you with one of our fabulous volunteers.
Are you ready to pull on your trainers?
My Eye to Eye 2026 - virtual event
Saturday 27 June 2026 - Sunday 28 June 2026
Our virtual Eye to Eye event offering you the chance to fundraise wherever you are!
