A charity at the heart of our community, supporting and inspiring people to improve their health and wellbeing
Rob Smith
CEO
Rob Smith was appointed the CEO of ILP in April 2021. Following an initial 11 years service with West Yorkshire Police he has had a 25-year career in the voluntary sector at Chief Officer level working within innovative and complex public/private/voluntary sector partnerships at a regional and national level. These include heading up Victim Support, Youth Justice, Children’s, Carers, Probation and Employment services amongst others. He sat on the Home Office/Ministry of Justice national voluntary sector advisory panel between 2003 and 2008 and was a member of the national T2A (Transitions to Adulthood) Alliance board between 2008 and 2011. He has also given evidence as an expert witness to the parliamentary justice select committee and was seconded to the National Offender Management Service to design new service delivery specification at a national level for short-sentenced prisoners.
Rob has a range of post graduate management qualifications specialising in the voluntary sector and studied for an MBA through the Open University.
Upon
re-locating to the Plymouth area in 2019 Rob was first a Trustee and then
interim CEO of the Harbour Centre (substance misuse charity) and was also Head
of Strategic Development for Devon Mind between 2019 and 2021. He is currently
Chair of the Devon Community Mental Health Alliance; he sits on the Plymouth
Armed Forces Covenant partnership board and is Chair of the Plymouth Veterans Theme
Group.
Chris Burnett
Operations Manager
Chris joined Improving
Lives Plymouth in 2012; initially starting within our Volunteer Centre where he
supported a variety of individuals, businesses and other charities with
volunteer management and recruitment. Chris has progressed through various
roles within ILP which has increased his knowledge of the operational and
business support functions. Chris brings management experience from both the
public and private sectors.
Larissa Milden
Operations Manager
Larissa joined the
Improving Lives Plymouth team in 2011 as the Active for All Manager. In 2018,
Larissa also took over the management of ILP’s Long-term Conditions
Self-management project.
Prior to Improving Lives
Plymouth, Larissa studied at Plymouth University and worked for the
environmental conservation charity the British Trust for conservation
Volunteers (BTCV) on local, regional and national projects.
Now an Operations
Manager, Larissa oversees a portfolio of ILP projects relating to supporting
people to improve their Health and Wellbeing.
Lee Sewrey
Operations Manager