Early Life and Education
Dickins grew up in East Ham and in the surrounding suburbs. He attended Ilford County High School for Boys. He took undergraduate studies at Loughborough University and graduated with an honours degree in Politics, Sociology, and Russian. Whilst at University was chairman of the Folk Club, the Film Society, and the Entertainments Committee. He served as Social Secretary of the Students Union, and moved the Union finances from loss to profit during his time there.
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