Letter: Mike Hall’s charisma and energy was a great help to homeless people

Mike Hall was a charismatic figure who had ambitious ideas on how to relieve the plight of homeless people. He played a major part – indeed for many years the major part – in the development of the Oxford Cyrenians, but not from the very beginning.

The Oxford Simon Group (later Cyrenians) began in 1967 and opened the night shelter by the railway station that was mentioned in Mike’s obituary. In 1970 the organisation then bought a property in north Oxford, which was called Cyrox House.