Corporate Partners

We are incredibly grateful to our corporate partners for their amazing support. Their contributions range from major multi-year cash grants to critically needed gifts in kind. Everyone listed on this page shares our long-term commitment to ending avoidable blindness throughout the world.

Uk Partners

ACS International Schools

Every year, five students from ACS International Schools (in the UK and Qatar), are given the opportunity to participate in the Orbis Student Journalism Internship, a one week visit to one of the Orbis country programmes to observe Orbis’s work on the ground.

Aircraft Interiors Expo / Reed Exhibitions

Reed Exhibitions, the world's leading event’s organiser, first selected Orbis as their charity partner for the Aircraft Interiors Expo in 2018 and continue to support Orbis by selecting us for the 2021 exhibition.

AOA

The Airport Operators Association (AOA), is a trade association representing the interests of UK Airports, and engaging with the UK Government and regulatory authorities on airport matters.

Aviation Club UK

The Aviation Club UK, founded in 1990, is a networking forum for its members and a vehicle for promoting and developing all aspects of civil aviation. The Club kindly chose Orbis as their charity partner in January 2017 and have committed their support until December 2021.

Aviation Logistics Network

Aviation Logistics Network (ALN) is one of the world’s largest independent networks specialising in the transportation and logistic requirements of the Aerospace Industry.

Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT)

DMGT, a multinational portfolio of companies that provide businesses and consumers with information, analysis, insight, events, news and entertainment, have selected Orbis to be one of their charity partners from 2018 – 2020.

ESCRS

Founded in 1991, ESCRS seeks to promote and support research in the field of intraocular lens implantation and refractive surgery. During the partnership ESCRS has successfully raised awareness of Orbis amongst its membership of over 7,500 people from 130 countries.

Espresso Solutions

For their 10-year anniversary, Espresso Solutions have committed to raise £10,000 for Orbis in 2022. Supporting our work to help protect people in the Sidama region of Ethiopia, a leading producer of speciality coffee, from blinding trachoma.

Euretina

EURETINA, Europe’s largest society of retina specialists, has been supporting Orbis since 2012 through their 5km Retina Race during their annual conference.

iSurgeon

For any subscriber who signs up to one of iSurgeon’s interview preparation courses via Orbis, iSurgeon will donate a fantastic £50. On top of this we'll also be receiving a very kind donation from the group once the interviews have taken place.

NDVR

NDVR are a Swedish based sunglasses brand who are supporting Orbis via the sale of their Orbit frames. Orbis will be receiving 5€ for each unit sold for the next 12 months.

Richfields

Richfields, a London-based accountancy firm, has been supporting Orbis since 2007. Through the firm’s partners and long-standing Orbis ambassadors Vinoo Patel and Nilesh Haria, Richfields has been instrumental in raising awareness, building relationships and providing vital funding for our work.

Run Through to ST1

Run through to ST1 was founded by two UK ophthalmic specialist trainees, Drs Zain Juma and Minak Bhalla. They deliver ophthalmology courses for UK doctors with all proceeds going to ophthalmic charities. Orbis UK are delighted to have been chosen as the 2020/21 Charity Partner where all student course fees will be donated to Orbis.

Southampton Airport

Southampton International Airport, the 18th busiest airport in the UK, chose to support Orbis after hearing about the charity at the Airport Operator Association’s (AOA) Annual Dinner.

STG Aerospace

STG Aerospace, creator of aircraft cabin lighting solutions, selected Orbis to be their Charity Partner in December 2018 and kicked off the partnership with a corporate donation in lieu of sending Christmas cards. Employees also held a Christmas Jumper day in aid of Orbis and donated generously at their Christmas party.

STinterview.com

STinterview.com provides a peer-to-peer interview simulation platform for ophthalmology specialty training interviews. With knowledge comes responsibility: For every sign-up to their platform, candidates are helping Orbis fund one cataract operation in a developing country.

STORM Interface

Storm Interface, manufacturer of a range of Assistive Technology Products, have been supporting Orbis since 2019 after choosing them as their Charity Partners.

TD Tom Davies

Bespoke eyewear brand TD Tom Davies first supported Orbis in 2005 by placing collection tins in their store. The designer’s personal support of Orbis has been unwavering since, and in 2015 Tom Davies chose Orbis as the beneficiary charity of his DADA eyewear design competition in order to support our Vision for Zambia appeal.

Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways has been the official airline of Orbis UK since 2015.

AAAASFI

AAAASFI’s accreditation programmes standardise and improve the quality of medical and surgical care.

Alcon Foundation

Over the last three decades, Alcon has donated state-of-the-art ophthalmic equipment, pharmaceuticals and supplies for the Flying Eye Hospital and its partner hospitals around the world.

Colllins Aerospace

As part of its continued commitment to helping others access advanced technology, Collins Aerospace, a unit of United Technologies Corp. is making a $1 million three-year contribution to Orbis to establish their world’s first Mobile Simulation Center outfitted for an aircraft.

FedEx

For more than 30 years, FedEx has played an indispensable role in helping Orbis achieve its vision of a world in which no one is needlessly blind.

Fondation L’Occitane

With a long history of corporate social responsibility, Fondation L'OCCITANE is committed to fighting avoidable blindness around the world.

Jebsen

Jebsen generously partners with Orbis to build up a training, screening and referring eye care network covering hospitals and clinics in the rural area of China.

OMEGA

OMEGA announced its Global Corporate Partnership with Orbis in January 2011.

Pfizer

The Pfizer-Orbis relationship dates back to 1979, three years before Orbis's first sight-saving flight, when Pfizer began supporting Orbis through cash grants and donations of medical supplies.

Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered supports Orbis’s Seeing Is Believing global community fundraising project, which aims to serve China's blind population.

For information on how to become a corporate partner, please contact:

Matt Coleman, Corporate Partnerships Manager

Email address: [email protected]