Join the Movement
This summer, Glaucoma NZ is taking part in Round the Bays across Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland. We’ll be walking and running together as a community that gets it – the highs, the hurdles, and everything in between. You don’t need to run a marathon. You just need to show up.
Bring your whānau. Bring your mates. Walk for yourself, or for someone you love. Glaucoma doesn’t stop us. It moves us. And every move we make together brings us closer to a future where glaucoma awareness can’t be ignored.
Run, walk or cheer with Round the Bays: Join Miles (pictured here) in raising glaucoma awareness and funds.
Learn about Miles' inspiring journey
Ready to join the Round the Bays movement?
You don’t have to wait for the event to get started.
Start raising awareness and funds right now. Click one of the three boxes below to create your fundraising page:
Help protect the sight of someone you love with a Gift of Sight pack
Glaucoma is different for everyone. For some, it’s issues with depth perception like chipping cups or missing the glass when you pour your juice. For others, it’s driving at night and remembering eye drops every single day.
Only an eye health check will tell you if you have glaucoma. You and your loved ones can get one today at your local optometrist.
Make a donation of your choice using the following donation form to pre-order a Gift of Sight pack. Packs will be sent from the end of January 2026.
In March 2026, Glaucoma Awareness Month will turn awareness into action. Our goal: empower more New Zealanders to have an eye health check and raise vital funds to support the work needed to prevent avoidable blindness.
Action
Your Gift of Sight pack will include a 50% discount voucher to get an eye health check at a Matthews Eye Care or Specsavers store in NZ.
2025 research showed that cost was a key barrier to regular eye health checks.
Experience
Limited-edition glaucoma simulation glasses are included in your Gift of Sight pack. Wear them as you do everyday tasks to see how glaucoma-related sight loss may affect your life.
As you see through eyes with sight loss from glaucoma, think “how might this affect my loved ones too?”
Knowledge
Could you and your loved ones be at risk of glaucoma or glaucoma progression?
Your Gift of Sight pack will include Awareness and Education materials. This means you and your loved ones can get up to speed with the risk factors of glaucoma. And learn about support that exists for you in your local community.
Where else can you expect to see and hear about this Glaucoma Awareness campaign?
On the radio thanks to funding from the Oxford Sports Trust.
Expect to hear the dulcet tones of proud Glaucoma NZ Ambassador Patrick ‘Paddy’ Gower informing you and your loved ones about the importance of checking for glaucoma.
In local media where possible, sharing lived experience of glaucoma. Special thanks to the Guy Anson Waddel Charitable Trust and the Albert Daniel Hally Trust supported by Perpetual Guardian.
On social media and the web, directing you and your loved ones to fundraise for saving sight from glaucoma or to donating to gift sight.
In select Shopping Centres around the country thanks to Shout Media and generous funding from Abbvie.
In local community spaces such as libraries, community centres and sports clubs thanks to Glaucoma NZ volunteers and supporters.
Please contact us if you can distribute posters around community spaces in your part of Aotearoa New Zealand.
From fellow New Zealanders sharing their experience of what it’s like to live with glaucoma or what it’s like to support someone living with glaucoma.
Donate here to pre-order your Gift of Sight pack.
In March 2026, Glaucoma Awareness Month will turn awareness into action. Our goal: empower more New Zealanders to have an eye health check and raise vital funds to support the work needed to prevent avoidable blindness.
Use the donation form below to make a donation of your choice. In return, you will be sent a Gift of Sight pack to the address you provide. You can keep this pack for yourself or gift it to somone who needs to get their eyes checked.
Your Gift of Sight pack includes a discount voucher for a half-price eye health check, limited-edition glaucoma simulation glasses and glaucoma awareness materials. Packs will be sent from the end of January 2026.
Request your FREE simulation glasses.
They represent early-stage, moderate-stage and advanced glaucoma. Use them to better understand what glaucoma looks like. Please allow 3-5 days for delivery of your challenge packs via post.
A special thanks to Aotearoa Gaming Trust for funding over 3,000 of these simulation glasses in 2025.
