Van den Herik helped Feyenoord to purchase some players in 1984 as chairman of the "Friends of Feyenoord Group".

In Oxford he was chairman of the university's disciplinary committee and chairman of the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum.

He also began and was chairman of the American Friends of the British Museum.

The chairman of the Friends of Union Terrace Gardens, Mike Shepherd, said the council had made the "correct decision".

I do not much like committees, of which we have too many, but Freda bludgeoned me into becoming chairman of the Friends of the Spanish Republic.

From 1963 to 1969, he was chairman of the American Friends Service Committee.

From 2006 to 2010, he served as chairman of the Friends of Scott Joplin competition committee.

He was a founder of Cincinnati's public radio and television stations and was chairman of the Friends of Judaic Studies.

He is also chairman of The Friends of Beamish.

He was also the former chancellor of the University of Portsmouth and the chairman of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery.