Personal Life
Salmon is a patron of the African Caribbean Leukemia Trust and the Richard House Children's Hospice and an ambassador for the Prince's Trust. He is also the chair of governors at St Anne's Nursery. Salmon is involved in the Notting Hill Carnival and is the dance captain of Fox Carnival Band.
Salmon married Fiona Hawthorne in 1988; the two have four children: Sasha, Rudi, Eden and Ben.
In September 2010, Salmon was invited by his friend Samuel L. Jackson to Switzerland for Shooting Stars Benefits 2010 Golf Tournaments. The golf competition raised money for the Samuel L. Jackson Foundation and the Swiss Red Cross to go towards a new hospital in Takéo Province, one of Cambodia's poorest provinces. In 2009 to the present day he is a co-founder of Cage Cricket with Trevor McArdle and Lawrence Prittipaul.
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