Meet our team
Meet our elected committee members, Ahmad Yabroudi (Chair) and Fathi Khalil (Treasurer), who are working for and representing the Syrian Community in Sussex.
We also work very closely with organisations in the city of Brighton and Hove. Meet Rachel Hughes, Assistant Headteacher at Brighton College, who has been working in collaboration with our community, and the team of volunteers at Brighton College.
We also have many other amazing volunteers. Why not join us?
Ahmad Yabroudi
Ahmad is the elected Sussex Syrian Community representative, and oversees all projects.
He is a former International Consultant for Education & Fairs, and a Syrian businessman.
Since my arrival to Britain in 2013, my goal was to help Syrian refugees within the resettlement program approved by the British government and to provide them with assistance in all aspects of life to reach its achievement of full integration into British society, and my belief in the inevitability of achieving this goal was imperative to strive to create a social entity that includes all Syrian social strata.
With the support and encouragement of Brighton and Hove City Council, the Syrian community was established in Sussex County with some Syrian friends and I have faith in working within a team that believes in spreading the Syrian cultural message to the community around us to our history and spreading the Syrian civilisation message, which is the true identity of every Syrian around the world and to achieve our goals.
Through the implementation of the community’s goals to achieve full integration into the new society and achieve justice and equality, we set our goals to achieve this and work on it.
Fathi Khalil
Sussex Syrian Community Treasurer
Fathi has been a committee member of the Sussex Syrian community group since it started. He is active in many parts of the group, such as helping the Syrian Arabic school at Brighton College and also in putting on various events we do throughout the year.
Rachel Hughes
Rachel Hughes is Assistant Headteacher at Brighton College and has worked closely with the Syrian community since 2015.
Rachel oversees ‘Our Life in the UK’ lessons, English conversation practise and coordinates the children’s Arabic lessons held at Brighton College Prep School each week.
