This website explains who I am, what I do, what I believe, and how to contact me.
After forty years as an entrepreneur working in both the UK and the US I am currently the Chairman of BCB Holdings and an active investor in new companies and ideas.
I support a wide range of charities, notably crime prevention and education. I am the Founder and Chairman of Crimestoppers, Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University and the Chairman of Trustees of the Ashcroft Technology Academy, in south London. I am also a Trustee of the Cleveland Clinic in the US. Details of other charities that I support can be found elsewhere on this site.
In 2000, I was knighted and became a Member of the House of Lords (Lord Ashcroft of Chichester, KCMG).
In December 2005, I was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party by David Cameron, with special responsibility for the Target Seat campaign and opinion research polling and I am Treasurer of the International Democrat Union.
Over the past two decades I have gathered over 160 Victoria Cross medals, the largest collection in the World. I am passionate in my belief that our country owes an enormous debt of gratitude to these heroes of courage. In the autumn of 2010 this collection is due to go on public display for the first time at the Imperial War Museum London in a purpose built gallery. The new Lord Ashcroft Gallery will also exhibit VCs and George Cross medals already belonging to the Imperial War Museum.
In 2009 I was made Vice-Patron of the Intelligence Corps Museum in Bedfordshire and in 2010 I became a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum Foundation.
I have written four books. Those on the subject of gallantry have been widely acclaimed and led to my being invited to the Cheltenham Literary Festival in 2008 and 2009 to talk about them.