Herbert Smith launched its fundraising campaign in December 2002 with a fingerspelling competition to raise awareness of deaf issues amongst staff. Each day for one week a fingerspelt word was posted to the staff. At the end of the week staff could submit the whole sentence into a draw, with the winner receiving a case of wine. 

Other fundraising initiatives included a Christmas Quiz and a summer Barristers Sports Quiz.

Various members of Herbert Smith took fundraising even further and took part in a variety of RNID organised  events including skydiving and running the New York Marathon. Partners of Herbert Smith very kindly matched all the donations raised by individual employees, helping to smash all fundraising targets, to make a grand total of £45,000. The money raised went towards funding four new British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters to work in London, helping to reduce the shortage of communication support for deaf and hard of hearing people.