John Jennings obituary

John Jennings gave up his job to set up the Liverpool Simon Community for homeless people, initially running the charity on his own modest savings plus money raised from friends Photograph: None

My friend John Jennings, who has died aged 88, was founder and director of the Liverpool Simon Community, a charity for homeless people.

John was working as an inspector for the Liverpool Port Health Authority in the 1960s when he learned about the founding of the Simon Community in London by Anton Wallich-Clifford, a probation officer who was seeking new approaches to helping people on the streets.