Alex is a former interim co-director of The Porch homeless day centre. He has 25 years’ experience of leading teams and charity fundraising, both in UK and internationally. He has worked for NGOs, at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, and UNDP Mozambique, where he was programme manager of United Nations Volunteer. In South Africa he helped to pioneer community-based township approaches to IT training. In Ghana he worked with street youth and developed livelihood programmes for the homeless.