Restaurant Card Scheme

Do you own or run a restaurant, or are you on friendly terms with the staff of your favourite eatery? Saving Faces runs a restaurant giving scheme and would appreciate your help.

How does it work? A small, elegant table card is placed on each table in your restaurant. It tells the customer a little about the charity and that a voluntary £1 will be added by the restaurant to the table’s bill at the end of the meal. It also explains that the customer is free to opt out if they wish.

The administrative burden is very small, as the use of electronic tills makes the adding a donation very straightforward. You can even allocate a button on your till to Saving Faces if you wish.

The donation is added to the bill after the service charge and VAT, so it does not affect the restaurant’s VAT returns.

The scheme is a very cost efficient way for your restaurant to fulfil a social and community responsibility.

If you are interested in joining our scheme, please contact us for more details.

NFORC Official Public Launch – November 2014

Surgeons and researchers from around the country and beyond gathered on Wednesday, 26th of November for the offical launch of the National Facial, Oral and Oculoplastic Research Centre (NFORC) in the Purcell room on London’s Southbank.

World-famous actor and Saving Faces patron, Alan Rickman, officially opened the Centre, along with NHS Deputy Director, Mike Bewick. The event was presided over by award-winning journalist, Jon Snow.

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NFORC Official Public Launch – 26 November 2014

Surgeons and researchers from around the country and beyond gathered on Wednesday, 26th of November for the official launch of the National Facial, Oral and Oculoplastic Research Centre (NFORC) in the Purcell room on London’s Southbank.

World-famous actor and Saving Faces patron, Alan Rickman, officially opened the Centre, along with NHS Deputy Director, Mike Bewick. The event was presided over by award-winning journalist, Jon Snow.

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Research Spotlight – Summer 2014

Saving Faces continues to lead ground-breaking research to prevent disease and injury and find better ways of treating conditions affecting the face:

  • Surgery is still the mainstay of mouth cancer treatment. Our study on early mouth cancer, the first-ever surgical study in the UK, is now nearing completion. It is half funded by Cancer Research UK and half by Saving Faces and compares two widely used, but very different, surgical techniques for dealing with these cancers. Prof Anil D’Cruz (Director of Tata Memorial Hospital in India, one of the top mouth cancer centres in the world) has been running an almost identical study at his hospital. We are both keen to combine our data to make it the most powerful study on mouth cancer that has ever been done in the world. Our results are likely to define exactly how patients with this disease should be treated.
  • We are now ready to publish the results of 3 major national studies: our schools projects on the prevention of binge drinking and smoking; and our second National Facial Injury Survey studying over 8,000 facial injuries.
  • We are looking to partner The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS), The Accident and Emergency consultants and the national charity dealing with domestic violence, REFUGE, to conduct research on how best to identify sufferers of domestic violence at an early stage when intervention would prevent escalation of this violence to horrific levels. Saving Faces’ ideas have already been presented in Parliament by Lord MacColl, former Prof of Surgery at Guys Hospital, discussed in a debate on domestic violence and written up in Hansard.
  • We have started talks with The Patients Association about collaboration around research to improve patient care.

We also fund PhD students and their supervisors. These are some of them and brief titles of their laboratory or psychology research:

Psychology PhD students presenting their research

  • The genetics of precancer and cancer – Dr. Teck Teh and Dr Waseem Ahmed
  • The identification and behavior of Cancer stem cells – Prof Ian MacKenzie
  • Chemical messengers (cytokines) produced in cancer, their association with depression and the negative feedback of this depression on life expectancy in cancer – Jo Archer
  • The psychological impact of cancer on patients’ families – Farah Shiraz
  • The psychological impact of facial trauma on patients’ families – Emmy Lou Rahtz
  • Pre-cancer genetics – Michael Ho
  • Cancer molecular biology – Jag Dhanda

If you want to find out more detail about the results of any of these projects please contact us.

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