Alec Dickson was a journalist who, after graduating from Oxford University in 1935, combined work as a foreign correspondent in Central Europe with helping groups of young people in the slums of Leeds and London. Following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, he gave up journalism to work helping refugees. He went on to found Voluntary Services Overseas in 1958 and Community Service Volunteers in 1962. The Alec Dickson Trust was established after Alec's death in 1994. The trust aims to support young people who are able to demonstrate that through volunteering or community service they can enhance the lives of others, particularly those most marginalised by society.
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