Annabel Agace is a chartered surveyor; a role she has returned to follow a career break to raise children and a number of years running Chalk Hill Contemporary Art. She has a strong interest in the visual arts and was a trustee for many years of The Lightbox in Woking and an Ambassador for Surrey Community Foundation. As a grants committee member of one of the Wates Foundation family charities she gets to see a number of local and national charities and has developed an interest in the charitable sector where she helps to promote partnership between charities and local communities.
Her other main interest is in promoting environmentally sustainable organisations and at BHS has spearheaded the Sustainability Working Group.