Charity has always been an important part of Richard’s life including spending two years as fundraising director of the Variety Club Children’s Charity, setting up a management infrastructure which now raises £2 million a year for disadvantaged children in the United Kingdom.

In Watford he has been involved with homeless charities and the Peace Hospice and knows that they need to be supported at the highest level possible.

He also is a governor of University College School in Hampstead, and is a trustee of several children’s charities.