Mr. Wilkinson was 1992-93 president of the Public Accountants Council Province of Ontario and is a member and past officer of both the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. He is also a member of the Institute of Charged Accountants of Quebec and the Royal Canadian Military Institute. He is chairman of the Trenton Memorial Hospital fund raising committee, was the founding chairman of the Belleville Cheshire Home for Physically Handicapped Adults and has served as chairman of the Board for Loyalist College.
A Rotarian since 1962, Mr. Wilkinson is a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Trenton, Ontario. He has served as a Rotary volunteer on a measles immunization project in India. A past Rotary Director, Vice-president of the RI Board, and district governor, he has also been an International Assembly discussion leader, and a chairman and member of several committees.As a member of the International Polio Plus Committee, Mr. Wilkinson was dedicated to the global effort to eradicate polio. Rotary's Polio Plus program, launched in 1985, is an aggressive public/private partnership to assist international health agencies and governments to certify the world as polio-free.