Graham has been associated with a variety of organizations in Peterborough. He was a founding board member of both Arbour Theatre and the Peterborough Festival of the Arts, acting as the latter's President for several years; he served with the Ontario March of Dimes for nearly 25 years, for many of those years as Chairperson of its annual door to door fund-raising campaign then later, as Chair of a March of Dimes Local Advisory Committee, he sat on the Provincial Advisory Committee in Toronto. He has been a board member of both the Chatham Branch and Peterborough Branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association and for a time served as the latter’s President, and later served on its Health Promotion Strategic Planning Committee. He was a board member of the Peterborough Family Resource Centre throughout much of the 90's and now sits on the Resource Centre’s "Friends" Board. He worked some years ago with the Save The Market Hall Committee, played a roll in successful efforts to restore and maintain the Peterborough clock tower and now serves as an honorary board member of the current Market Hall Restoration project. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Peterborough Concert Association, is a founding member of the Peterborough Pathway of Fame steering committee and for the past 12 years has acted as vice chairman of the organization. He was a volunteer in the Lakefield Animal Welfare Society's recent “Raise the Woof” building campaign and has just completed a four year term as a Warden of Peterborough's All Saints’ Anglican Church most recently assisting the communications component of its successfully completed Capital Campaign.

Graham has been a member of the Peter Robinson Awards Committee that was struck by the Mayor in the year 2000, and again in 2005, to recognize exceptional achievements of past and present Peterborough residents and for several years he’s been one of three judges who have chosen the winners of the Peterborough Historical Society’s Annual Heritage Awards.

Graham has been the recipient of a number of awards of his own, among them, the Gordon Holnbeck community service award as its inaugural recipient and as such acts on a judging panel that chooses subsequent recipients; he was named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International through the Rotary Club of Peterborough, and was, along with CHEX Television, the recipient of the first ever Media Award given by Ontario Division, Canadian Mental Health Association, for his "outstanding contribution to the coverage of mental health issues". Most recently he was awarded the Ontario Brain Injury Media Award for a two part series he produced about a young Peterborough boy, brain injured in an automobile accident 40 years ago.

Besides his frequent appearances on CHEX Television’s Newswatch, and in the community as a speaker and Master of Ceremonies for various non-profit organizations and fund-raising events, Graham has been a regular for some 35 years on the Annual Kids First Telethon on CHEX for children with disabilities and is widely remembered as the "man with all the answers" for his time as host of the popular intramural TV program, Campus Quiz, that ran for many years on CHEX Television. More recently he appears weekly on Newswatch @ 5:30 in the Grammar for Grownups segment that tackles some of today’s observed misuses of grammar.

Graham, in his early years, performed in dance bands and later, appeared on stage in a number of theatrical productions. He continues to be challenged by the restoration and maintenance of old houses (an 1870's Rubidge House in Peterborough and an 1880's beam construction home in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia). He has a number of late 50s/early 60s Mercedes Benz automobiles in various states of restoration and has a modest collection of British motorcycles, the oldest of which, a rare 1938 BSA first model year Gold Star in original operating condition.