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Ossie Glover

Azumah Kwartey Titus-Glover
(aka) Ossie Glover
Chief Executive

I am the founder member and Chief Executive of Fata He BME Development (a West African phrase which means ‘inclusion’). In May 2003 Fata He became the first black led social enterprise with both social and community objectives in the city of Plymouth to gain Limited Company status. The organisation is representative of many Black and Minority Ethnic (B&ME) groups including the Gypsy and Traveller community. Fata He are currently involved in the Home Office funded ChangeUp Infrastructure programme as the sub-regional B&ME lead for Devon, Cornwall, Plymouth and Torbay consortiums. We are also actively involved in the ‘Devonport People’s Dreams’ NDC regeneration programme in ensuring effective inclusion and participation of B&ME and other minority groups within project and programme activity, and were also recently successful in securing Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) 6 funding to develop a B&ME citywide capacity building programme. I have also been recently elected to serve as the B&ME Community Empowerment Network representative on the Plymouth Local Strategic Partnership (LSP), and also serve as a Company Director on the Wolseley Community and Economic Development Trust (our accountable body), and the regional Black South West Network (BSWN).

I hold a BA (Hons) degree in Community and Youth Studies, an MSc in Social Research, and following a studentship award from the University of Plymouth in September 2003 I have been actively pursuing a PhD, which I intend to investigate and evaluate the impact of urban policy and urban regeneration programmes on B&ME groups in low areas of settlement using as a case study the Devonport New Deal communities Programme. I was until recently the Chair of the Plymouth Anti Racism Task Force (ARTF), which was tasked with eradicating racism in the city through the outcomes of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, and since the withdrawal of Plymouth City Council from the ARTF, Fata He has continued to facilitate a Black and Ethnic Minority Advisory Group (BEMAG), which is made up of former B&ME members of the ARTF, and organisations which work with BME groups. I have also had the privilege of Chairing the Home Office Funded Plymouth Community Cohesion Facilitation Programme along with a multi-agency member panel (supported by GOSW) who were responsible in drawing this programme to a successful conclusion.

Since the end of the Plymouth Community Cohesion Facilitation Programme, Fata He has continued to assist two youth groups, the Plymouth Talented People’s Project (PTPP), and the Plymouth Urban Living Sound Enterprise (PULSE) become constituted organisations who will come under the umbrella of Fata He and receive help and support in becoming future stand alone organisations.