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Bottomley is involved with charitable and academic bodies in addition to business.

She is a Governor of the London School of Economics and a Pro-Chancellor of the University of Surrey.

She was on the founding Council of the University of the Arts, London.

She is also a Council Member of the Ditchley Foundation and President of Farnham Castle Centre for International Briefing.

From 2000 until May 2012 she has sat on the Supervisory Board of Akzo Nobel.

She is a non-executive director of Bupa.

She is on the Advisory Council of the International Chamber of Commerce UK ( ICC UK ) and the Judge School of Management, Cambridge.

Bottomley has been a trustee and is a fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust.

She was National President of the Abbeyfield Society and a Vice-Patron of Carers and of Cruse Bereavement Care.

She is a lay Canon of Guildford Cathedral, and a Freeman of the City of London.

In 2006, she was elected and installed as Chancellor of the University of Hull, succeeding Lord Armstrong of Ilminster in April 2006.

She was also appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey in March of that year.