Richard von Hippel is a multidisciplinary, Diploma Certificated Therapist, in Complementary/Alternative medical therapies. While serving as a Director of a major Community Association, engaged in the regeneration of three deprived housing estates, he also acted as their researcher and advisor on health related matters.
It was during his time on the Board that he founded a free Alternative/Complementary Health Clinic for the residents of the three Estates, the most inspirational of which he continued to treat after his retirement.