Paul is an active member of the Afrikan community in Nottingham and has been involved in a number of community groups, most notably:
Nubian Link a community education group established in 1995. This self-funded group has delivered a range of educational activities including, Kulture College, an annual summer school for Afrikan boys and girls aged 12-15, annual Kwanzaa celebrations, Afrikans in Science award for Afrikan young people aged 11-16 (1998 -2003). Nubian Link is self-financing with members tithing on a monthly basis. www.nubianlink.org.uk
ABDF Ltd (formerly Afrikan Business Development Fund) a community economic development company which he conceived and co-founded in November 1996. The ABDF Ltd became a limited company in 2001 and as of August 2009 had 118 Afrikan shareholders/investors making monthly investments to a collective pot. The group has bought two houses in Nottingham, invested in an Afrikan owned company Nubian Natural and formed a company in Ghana ABDF Ghana Ltd, which is investing in the Construction sector. Investors are now spread across England in the following towns and cities: Nottingham, Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Manchester, Stafford, Leicester, Derby, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Kent, Bristol, High Wycombe and London. To find out more about the ABDF Ltd visit our website www.abdf.co.uk
Vice-Chair and co-founder (in 1998) of the Nottingham Black Families in Education Parent Support Group which provides educational advocacy and support. Ifayomi acts as a volunteer educational advocate and also trains the group’s Jenoch (Mentors).
Founder member of Brother II Brother an Afrikan men’s group that delivered rites of passage programmes for Afrikan boys aged 12-14 up until 2008. The group also put on an annual community ‘Give the Sisters a Break’ BBQ for nine years which attracted up to 200 people. Brother II Brother was largely self-financing with members tithing on a monthly basis. Since the winding up of BIIB Paul continues to act as Jegna to the fifteen year old boy he supported on the rites of passage programme.
Paul has previously worked in a variety of roles in the Midlands, including running his own recruitment consultancy business, working in prisons and with ex-offenders as an Employment/Training Adviser, working as a Training & Development Manager, Community Safety Consultant and most recently as the Deputy Chief Executive of a multi-million pound community regeneration programme where he had overall responsibility for project delivery, partnership working and Human Resource issues. In February 2006 Ifayomi completed the circle and returned to self-employment and he now operates his own management consultancy firm Navigation Consulting Ltd.
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