He has been appointed as the current Chair of the SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) Board of Trustees and is an NED at Saxton Bampfylde.

He also served as the Global Head of Citizenship for KPMG for 13 years and is a former Trustee of the Vodafone Group Foundation, and subsequently a Governor of the Vodafone/Safaricom M-PESA Academy in Nairobi for 800 of Kenya's poorest children.

In 2021, he became President of UKCF, the UK's Community Foundations network, and separately a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in the City of London.

However, in 1970 a pro-Russian/pro-Cuban government was voted into power and very soon the USA, with memories of the Cuban Bay of Pigs crisis, created a trade blockade of the island which very soon descended into economic chaos forcing the family to return their two sons once more to the UK.

Oxley was Vice President of the National Viewers and Listeners Association, and his results were passed on to Mary Whitehouse, co-founder of the organisation, to support her campaign to promote "better standards" on television.

Hastings is a former trustee of the Vodafone Group Foundation, and previously served for nine years on the Board for Responsible and Sustainable Business at British Telecom (BT).

[4] In February 1986, Hastings received a phone call from the PM's adviser to work alongside the Government and help deal with the problems surrounding the urban riots of the time (1981/1985) arising from a sense of frustration by disenfranchised young black men.

[citation needed] He was called to strategic meetings No10, and gave up teaching going into largely black areas to build confidence and trust among these disadvantaged communities, which he did for five years.

As someone who for a long time was always meeting and being in contact with politicians, he was first approached by Paddy Ashdown MP in his resignation honours options to consider a life peerage under Lib Dem patronage but turned down the offer.

[citation needed] Eventually, however, he was approached by the Independent Appointments Commission, accepted their offer, and was elevated to the Peerage in December 2005, taking the title of his boarding school.

In 2014, Hastings was conferred with a doctorate in civil law from the University of Kent,[7] Canterbury, in recognition for his leadership at KPMG, and the BBC on International Development and Corporate Responsibility.