Family Background
Goodwin was from a middle-class family of five and was born in Streatham. He went to Strand School. He left at 16 to become a tea-buyer for a City firm. In his spare time he worked at the Oxford and Bermondsey Boys' Club, a charity set up by the University of Oxford to help underprivileged boys in Bermondsey, where he then lived. Through this work he became full-time Assistant Secretary of the National Association of Boys' Clubs when it was set up in 1934. From 1945 he was its General Secretary.
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