Community fundraising

Raising funds for a great cause.

Be a community hero for macular disease

Raising funds for Macular Disease Foundation Australia can be a fun way to involve your family and friends in a cause that’s close to your heart. And it has the added benefit of helping you reach your personal goals as well.

Community fundraising makes a significant difference to the work we do on behalf of the Australian macular disease community.

There are lots of ways you can make an impact. You can join an existing event or create your very own fundraising event. You can even dedicate your special occasions – like a birthday or wedding. No matter what you choose, you’ll be making a huge difference to those at risk of or living with macular disease.

If you are participating, or planning to participate, in an event and want to raise funds for MDFA online you can use Go Fundraise.

If you are hosting a community fundraising event, you will need to complete an ‘Authority to Fundraise’ form, before collecting money on our behalf.

Authority to fundraise form

This form should be returned to our Supporter Care team via email or post. Our postal address is:

Macular Disease Foundation Australia
Reply Paid 8594
SYDNEY NSW 2000 (no stamp is required)

If you would like to discuss a community fundraising idea, please contact us and share your ideas – we’re here to help. You can reach us via the National Helpline on 1800 111 709. Just ask to speak to a member of our Supporter Care team. Alternatively, you can email us.

You may also like to check our Events page, for fundraising events in your area.

National Helpline

1800 111 709

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Cooking up a new stage of life: Shane Somerville tells his story

In our latest edition of Vision Voice, Shane candidly shares his experience of managing vision loss while still working, as well as maintaining a positive and busy life after his career.

Eye injections – a lifeline to the outside world

The centenarian, whose bookshelves and cupboards are crammed with biographies, literary classics and the odd Agatha Christie mystery, regards her regular eye injections as a lifeline.

“I’ll work until they put me in a pine box”

Mike can’t retire because he wouldn’t be able to afford the cost of eye treatment that prevents him from going blind.

“Rural ophthalmologists are overloaded with patients. We need more specialists out here”

People who live in rural and remote areas face real struggles to commit to start sight-saving eye injections and to stick with the treatment.

“The cost of my eyes has prohibited us from going on any kind of holiday”

My eyes are our holiday money. I’ve even considered giving up my injections. It’s a

“I don’t feel so alone anymore”

MDFA offers Peer to Peer phone calls as well as peer support groups, both face-to-face and online.

Forced to hang up her knitting needles

Sadly, eye injections came too late for Cheryl Chamberlain. But thousands of Australian patients will now be able to stick to this sight-saving treatment after both major political parties rejected a proposed Medicare rebate cut.

It’s a relief

Anne and 47,000 other Australians are relieved a proposed Medicare rebate cut for eye injections has been rejected.

Rebate cut rejected

The Government and Opposition reject a cut to the Medicare rebate for sight-saving eye injections, which threatened to blind 47,000 Australians.

It’s good news for people on a pension

The rejection of the proposed Medicare rebate cut is good news, “especially for people on a pension”, says Joe from Queensland.

Image shows Mike, subject of the story, against a blue background.

I’m so relieved

Mike says the rejection of a proposed cut in the Medicare rebate for eye injections means he can get on with life and not have to worry about the cost of maintaining his sight.

Community fundraising