Launching and leading Dot Dot Dot, a social enterprise which places individuals who do great voluntary work for good causes in homes that would otherwise be empty - offering security to property owners and inexpensive accommodation to property guardians.Dot Dot Dot now houses hundreds of people across the country, supporting them to give tens of thousands of hours of time to charity every year - in our first ten years, Dot Dot Dot guardians gave effort worth £4.3m to good causes, the equivalent of one person working full time for 200 years. I was named by the Big Issue as one of 100 'Changemakers' for 2019 - the people doing the most to tackle society's most pressing problems.

Chairing Co-Op Homes, a housing association which manages and develops its own good-quality affordable homes and also provides a range of management services to 30 housing co-operatives and other community organisations.

Providing advice and assisting journalistically on issues around empty homes for this series of prime-time programmes for Channel 4, broadcast in December 2011.

Published by Ebury Press in 2010, my first book dug into the hidden stories of those who live on next to nothing, by using up the homes, food and other goods which would otherwise go to waste.