Our charity

Plymouth Hope is a Devon based charity which aims to promote social inclusion by supporting people who may otherwise have become socially excluded. All our programmes promote racial harmony by working with children and young people and their families; providing opportunities for sport and activity, supporting education and raising awareness about different racial groups. We endeavour to promote good relationships between people from different racial backgrounds through providing opportunities for community participation in healthy recreation, support with school life and a commitment to lifelong learning.

Plymouth Hope is continuing its Active Communities programmes and entering a new phase with an increased commitment to supporting learning for children, training for volunteers and advice and guidance for parents. Please have a look at our news page for our updates.

The charity also assists its overseas branches and partners using sport as a tool for poverty relief in education and health.

Current Crowdfunding for the Connectivity Project - Working Partnership with DCRS, ODILS, Plymouth City Council, plus launch funding through other partners.

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Meet the Team

Operations and Strategic Manager (Immigration and Wider Integration)

Kiven Emmanuel

Operations and Strategy Manager Kiven Emmanuel has a cumulative twenty two years’ experience providing strategic leadership and management in diverse programs of local, national, and international development organisations. He has worked in a wide range of sectors including youth development; volunteerism; health & HIV and AIDS; Sustainable livelihoods and immigration. In these sectors, he has acquired extensive knowledge in various technical areas including leadership development; resource mobilization and management; communications; partnership development; philanthropy as well as volunteer management.

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Operations and Strategic Manager (Youth and Women's Wellbeing)

Clarisse Feindouno

Clarisse is our newly appointed Operations and Strategic Manger for Youth and Women's Well-being. She is a graduate in International Tourism & Management and has been an Associate lecturer at the University of Plymouth for the past two years. She holds an FA Level 1 in Football Coaching and will soon become an Exercise to Music qualified instructor. She has experience in travel writing and has led and delivered workshops in the former. She has been volunteering with Plymouth Hope since the beginning of 2010 where she has seen the Charity evolve and become part of the community in the city, and became a staff member in December 2018 as a programmes and volunteers coordinator. She assists in the coordination and delivery of activities that Plymouth Hope offers in addition to being our Sustainability Officer, responsible for developing and improving our social enterprise and trading branch that will enable the charity to become self-funded in the long term.

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Asylum Guide Coordinator & PRO (Plymouth Refugee Opportunities) Project Coordinator

Taous Abdallah

Taous has a degree in Geophysics with experience of working with a wide range of people in different roles. She has volunteered as an interpreter, homework club, and assisting refugees settle into Plymouth. She started at Plymouth Hope in September 2020 as our Asylum Guide Coordinator for the Asylum Guide project, and began work on PRO (Plymouth Refugee Opportunities) in late 2021, a project aimed at supporting people to integrate into the community by creating and building integration plans with goals for them to achieve.

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Integration Empowerment Officer (Ukrainian Programme)

Nada Alahmed

Nada has a degree in Educational Biology with teaching experience within primary schools. She has previously worked as a volunteer in Exeter University Bioscience lab and joined Plymouth Hope as Integration Empowerment Officer for the Ukrainian Resettlement Programme in August 2022.

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Stand As One Engagement and Outreach Officer & Youth Programmes Coordinator

Millie Richardson

Millie joined Plymouth Hope in September 2021 as a Project Assistant after previously working as a Project Assistant at Barnardo's. She has experience and knowledge of ACE's (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and is fully first aid trained. Millie works across numerous programmes, including Education and Learning, Youth Hub, Youth Connect, the Mid-Ground Project and most recently Stand As One.

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Community Integration Officer

Silvain Djomo

Silvain's role consists of empowering new refugees in Plymouth and aiding them through the systems required by facilities and their options for transitioning into the UK and being well integrated into the area they wish to reside. He works within the Asylum Guide project and PRO (Plymouth Refugee Opportunities).

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Children and Young People (CYP) Active Life Coordinator

Julius Che

Julius is responsible for implementing and coordinating well-being activities in the community. These activities demonstrate the needs and the well-being of children and young people, some of which are educational, fitness, outdoor, social and sports. This includes Plymouth Hope Football Academy's two youth football teams, & our men's team.

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Video Editor and Social Media Correspondence

Amber Lang-Beer

Amber joined the team in December 2021 as an Admin Assistant and Video Editor. Her role is to play a key role in the execution of our Youth Club and Homework Support, administration, filming and editing many videos vital to Plymouth Hope projects and the organisation of the Plymouth Hope Festival. Alongside this, she also maintains the social media platforms. Amber has a degree in Fine Arts from Plymouth Arts University and has previous experience with event organisation and administration.

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