From there three years were spent as Director of the community development training agency AVEC.
He was also part of the Trust's group which set up a fund raising £1.5M to aid farmers and local businesses affected by Foot and Mouth.
(elycathedral.anglican.org) In the staffing and financial crisis surrounding Bradford Cathedral, he was brought in as Acting Dean from 2004 to 2005.
Grundy achieved a PhD from Leeds University in 2014 for a study in the ways in which the Church of England oversees change.
He has also been Vice-Chair of the Retired Clergy Association of the Church of England and a trustee of The Women's Education Partnership, formerly Together for Sudan.