Bruce Kenrick

World War II broke out before he turned 20, and he saw service as a medic in the Gold Coast Defence Force and with paratroopers in Italy.

Kenrick went to work in the East Harlem Protestant parish project,[3] which was attached to Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.

On his return to the UK he was ordained and went to work in Notting Hill, London - then an area marked by racial tension and bad landlords like Peter Rachman.

It was out of the desire to put national pressure on local government to improve housing that Shelter was born at St Martin in the Fields in 1966.

After a dispute over the leadership of the organisation with Des Wilson, Kenrick left Shelter.