Corporate Social Responsibility

Our Charity of the Year

Each year we invite employees to put forward a business proposal for a charity of their choice, which needs to include a plan for how they aim to reach their fundraising target. These are presented to all staff who vote for the next Charity of the Year.

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Charity of the Year: Saving Faces

Our Charity of the Year is Saving Faces, a national research charity dedicated to improving outcomes for people affected by facial and oral cancer, serious facial injury and facial disfigurement. This includes disfigurement caused by accidents, violence and abuse, as well as congenital conditions such as cleft lip and palate.

Conditions affecting the face can profoundly impact a person’s ability to communicate, eat, express emotion and maintain confidence and dignity. Saving Faces exists to address not only survival, but long-term function, identity and quality of life.

We are supporting Saving Faces in raising funds to establish a new Professorship in Clinical Trials in Oral Cancer.

What Saving Faces does

Saving Faces leads research through the National Facial, Oral and Oculoplastic Research Centre, the UK’s hub for clinical trials, early diagnosis and reconstructive surgery research. Its work spans facial and oral cancer, facial trauma and congenital facial conditions, with a focus on improving detection, treatment and recovery.

This type of specialist research is not funded by the NHS. While the NHS funds treatment, it does not fund the research infrastructure needed to improve future care — making charities like Saving Faces essential to driving progress that would not otherwise happen.

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Why Saving Faces matters

Every year in the UK, nearly 9,000 people are diagnosed with mouth cancer, with survival rates falling sharply when diagnosis is late. At the same time, thousands more people experience life-changing facial injuries through accidents or violence, or are born with conditions that require complex, long-term surgical care.

Research led by Saving Faces has already helped shape clinical guidelines in the UK and internationally, improving survival rates, surgical outcomes and long-term quality of life for patients.

One Saving Faces clinical trial has demonstrated that changes to surgical practice can significantly improve survival outcomes without compromising speech or swallowing. Findings like these are now used internationally, helping thousands more patients receive better care.

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What is the new Professorship?

A Professorship is a senior, permanent research role. It provides a leading specialist with the time, funding and authority to design and run large-scale clinical trials — the kind of trials that directly change how facial conditions are diagnosed, treated and managed across the NHS.

This new role will accelerate vital research in facial surgery, helping to:

improve early diagnosis,
advance surgical and reconstructive techniques, and
ensure patients recover with the best possible functional and quality-of-life outcomes.

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How we can make a difference

Funds raised by Raymond James and Charles Stanley colleagues will directly support this Professorship and the clinical trials it enables. By supporting Saving Faces, colleagues are helping fund research that saves lives, restores function and helps people rebuild confidence and dignity after serious illness, injury or congenital disease.

Early detection saves lives. By supporting Saving Faces, colleagues are also helping raise awareness that could genuinely make a difference within our own colleague and family communities

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