Mr Ghazi-Nouri has been on several charity missions. He has travelled five times to Myanmar (Burma) in the Far East, once to British Guyana in South America and once to Sudan.

Closer to home, Mr Ghazi-Nouri has run 18 Marathons including the London Marathon four times and raised funds for national charities as well as his NHS hospital eye department for purchase of ophthalmic equipments.

Mr Ghazi-Nouri operating in Burma in 2005