British former Paralympic skier Jade Etherington has been announced as ambassador for The National Eye Research Centre's inSIGHTS to a healthy future campaign, which is calling upon Government and health and eye care organisations to increase research funding into eye disease.

Etherington, who is visually impaired, won silver in the women's downhill skiing, combined and slalom, and a bronze in the Super G category at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games, before retiring from the sport that year.