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Adullam was founded in the Birmingham area in 1972 by Walter Moore. Walter Moore was born in Nottingham at the turn of the 20th century. Brought up with four siblings in a single parent home, he experienced his family's poverty and his mother's work with Narrow Marsh Gospel Temperance Mission had a huge influence upon his formative years.
Walter served in the army during the Great War and Second World War. Walter tried to make ends meet by working as a painter and decorator, but life was hard and he ended up at a workhouse. He was determined not to face this again. Walter had previously left his faith behind and in his fifties rededicated his life to God.
Working with the local Probation Service, he established the first few houses in Birmingham, buying them with his own money and working largely on his own. Over the next thirteen years, three other independent organisations were developed at Winsford, Liverpool and Stockport. Together, these provided 100 bed spaces. In 1985, the four separate organisations merged to form a single housing association.
After retirement, Walter was involved in a variety of initiatives to reach out to people in need. He was involved in Hill Farm, a residential drug rehab facility and later with a scheme for homeless ex-offenders. These experiences led him to develop the concept of Adullam to "offer a home where residents may live their own lives, free".
Walter was awarded the MBE in 1985 for services to the homeless.