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 the three ACS International Schools in the UK and one in Doha, have the opportunity to participate in an overseas journalism internship in an Orbis programme country.

Aerospares 2000

Aerospares 2000 has committed to a partnership with Orbis UK and the Flying Eye Hospital from 2017-2020. Making a donation to Orbis for every sale, Aerospares 2000 is proud to be supporting Operation Sight, Orbis UK’s most ambitious campaign to date.

Altomed

Altomed is a family-run company that supplies surgical instruments and disposables for ophthalmic surgery.

AOA

The Airport Operators Association (AOA) has supported Orbis as the beneficiary of the Prize Draw at their Annual Dinner since 2006.

Aviation Club UK

The Aviation Club UK started its ongoing partnership with Orbis and our Flying Eye Hospital as its charity partner in January 2016.

BDOC

The BDOC is the German association of surgical ophthalmologists, with over 1.300 members.

ESCRS

The European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) has provided Orbis with a fantastic level of support for many years.

Euretina

The European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA) is Europe’s largest society of retina specialists. The society currently has approximately 1,700 members in over 103 countries.

Farnborough International Airshow

Farnborough International has confirmed Orbis UK as the official charity partner for their July 2020 Airshow. As part of this incredible partnership, Orbis will be bringing our unique Flying Eye Hospital to the event to provide visitors with an opportunity to explore the aircraft first hand.

Industrial Optimizers

Industrial Optimizers has committed to supporting Orbis UK, kick-starting the partnership with a donation of £1000.

IOLLA

To celebrate their first anniversary of trading, the team at IOLLA decided it was time to bring its pledge of contributing to the prevention and treatment of sight loss around the world to life!

OCULUS Surgical

OCULUS Surgical has supported Orbis since 2017 with the donation of a OCULUS BIOM® system for the Flying Eye Hospital.

OneLove Foundation

The OneLove Foundation is the philanthropic arm of PHB Ethical Beauty, a company dedicated to developing ethical, conscious and effective beauty products. A portion of its profits go directly to the Foundation, which supports projects that work to help people, especially children, and animals in the UK and around the world.

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.

Southampton Airport

After hearing about Orbis UK at the Airport Operator Association’s (AOA) Annual Dinner, Southampton Airport kindly offered to support our work by hosting a foreign currency collection within their departure lounge.

TD Tom Davies

Bespoke eyewear brand TD Tom Davies first supported Orbis in 2005 by placing collection tins in their store.

Zoobug

Zoobug is a British brand of beautiful handmade sunglasses and optical frames for babies and children up to 12 years. Founded by surgeon Dr Julie Diem Le in 2006, Zoobug’s mission is to help children see well and look great.

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.

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:

Kathryn Sweet

Head of Corporate Partnerships

Email address: [email protected]

Phone number: 020 7608 7282