He has a keen interest in education, serving for many years as a Member of the City Council Education Committee.He was founder (and Chairman for 15 years) of the Westminster Bereavement Service and continues this interest in supporting work with grief following miscarriage and in developing funeral rites for people with learning disabilities and those who mourn them.

He has been asked by the next Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster, Councillor Cathy Longworth to undertake the Office of Lord Mayor's Chaplain and has accepted this offer.

He is Chaplain to several West End theatres and his interests embrace modern British painting, the work of Stephen Sondheim and the post war wines of the Haut Medoc.