He is a non-executive Chairman of Global Resins and Chairman of Hempleman Investment Company, a commercial property company. He is also a non-executive director of XP Power, a PLC Company based in Singapore which manufactures in USA, Europe, China and Vietnam. He lives at Box, near Bath, with his wife Claire and three daughters, Alicia, Camilla and Amelia. In April 2008 his middle daughter, Camilla, at the age of 15 became the youngest person to ski the last degree to the North Pole. On 10 October 2008 Hempleman-Adams, along with co-pilot Jon Mason won the 52nd Gordon Bennett Cup, having flown a helium balloon from Albuquerque, New Mexico eventually landing over 1000 miles later near Madison, Wisconsin. They are the first British team to win the coveted prize in 102 years. In December 2011 his youngest daughter, Amelia, at the age of 16 became the youngest person to ski to the South Pole having completed Shackleton's last 98 nautical miles. He is a Trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, The Royal Aero Club Trust and St John Ambulance, of which he has been a member for 14 years. In 1992 David co-founded The Mitchemp Trust, a registered youth development charity working with vulnerable young people aged 11 to 14 years old from across Wiltshire and the UK who are suffering the effects of poverty and rural isolation. See The Mitchemp Trust website. In October 2004, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire. In 2009 David founded Wicked Weather Watch, a charity aimed at informing young people about climate change. In summer 2016, David will undertaken the Polar Ocean Challenge - an historic attempt to be the first British yacht to sail around the Arctic Ocean in one summer season. In December 2010 he turned on the Christmas lights in Wootton Bassett. He was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 2016–17. He received the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1995. Then in 2000, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Aero Club. In 2004, he was awarded ‘The Explorers Medal’, by The Explorers’ Club of New York at their Centennial Dinner. He was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the 2007 New Year Honours and Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2017 New Year Honours, both in recognition of his service to the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme  He became a Freeman of the City of London in 2008.