Throughout her life Alice Woodhouse maintained an active interest in many organisations. She was the first woman member of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration as well as being on the executive of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Library Association, a member of the national council and a vice president of the New Zealand Founders’ Society, and she served on the Hawke’s Bay regional committee of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. She was also a frequent broadcaster of radio talks covering a wide variety of historical and literary topics, and her published written works include Very occasional verses (1927), British regiments in Napier, 1858–1867 (1970), The naming of Napier (1970), and articles in the Turnbull Library Record .