Steve Page
Alpha UK Development Manager for Prisons
Joined in 2014
Prior to joining the HTB Group I worked in financial services as a broker in London’s square mile for over 25 years. Towards the end of my time in the city I was wanting to change my path and I wanted to give God some years, but I wasn’t sure I was qualified to do anything useful outside of finance.
That all changed when I heard about a vacant position, Manager of the Caring for Ex-Offenders team. I had some experience of volunteering in prisons, so I decided to apply and was successful. Our mission was to settle people leaving prison into their local church, ultimately reducing likelihood of them re-offending.
Eighteen months later I joined Alpha UK Prisons. Our team has trained hundreds of volunteers to run Alpha in prisons and thousands of prisoners have completed Alpha while in prison. I’m very blessed to be able to work with both prisons and the churches that commit time to serving them, it’s amazing to hear the stories of changed lives. Jesus is of course already in our prisons but through Alpha I like to think we are making some introductions to Him.
I can honestly say that the past six years have been the most satisfying of my entire career, I have the best job on staff!