Footsbarn Theatre

In 1971, Foot, with his wife Nancy and a group of other friends, set up the Footsbarn Theatre Company using a barn near Liskeard, Cornwall, for rehearsals – hence the name, "Footsbarn".^[3]

Christian faith

In the mid-1970s, Foot became a born-again Christian while staying with the L'Abri Fellowship in Hampshire. He was a member of Grace Community Church in Morval, near Looe in Cornwall.^{[citation needed]}

Orbis

Foot was a long-standing supporter of ORBIS International, the flying eye hospital, and was the chief executive from 1982 to 1987, becoming president from 1987 to 1995 and again from 2004 to his death in 2008.^[2]

Air Jamaica and Sandals

After his departure from Orbis, Foot worked for Air Jamaica and Sandals Resorts as a Vice-President of Public Affairs from 1996 to 2004. Splitting his time between Jamaica and the UK, Foot used his contacts in the press to significantly raise the profile of Air Jamaica, Sandals and Jamaica at large to the people of the UK.^[2]

Jamaica Blue

During 1998, in partnership with the Jamaican Government, Foot started a chain of coffee shops called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Shops Limited (Jamaica Blue). The first location opened in Mayfair, London, in mid-January 1999. Jamaica Blue sold and used Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee and served locally supplied Jamaican foods, cakes and crafts; Air Jamaica transported all the coffee at a discount price and flew out shipments of Jamaica's own St Catherine's peak spring water.^{[citation needed]}

Most of the staff were of Jamaican descent or had a Jamaican connection. Foot set up the shop, not to make money, but to help the small coffee farmers in Jamaica, who were suffering due to a surplus of Blue Mountain coffee created by financial instability in Japan, the main purchaser of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.^[4] In the end, the location was poorly chosen and the overheads were too high. Jamaica Blue closed in 2001.