 He was the chairman of the Wiltshire Community Foundation from 1991 to 1997, the Council of the Mission to Seafarers from 1993 to 2006, and the Academic Partnerships Int Ltd from 2012 to 2015.He had also been High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 2003 and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Grocers.For his voluntary service to cancer research, he was knighted in 2011.