Peggy Moylan – Director of Operations and Co-Founder

Peggy Moylan has worked in the boroughs of Lambeth, Wandsworth and Croydon for over 38 years within local government and voluntary sectors, specialising in working with hard-to-reach communities, young people and their families. She led on mental health within an Integrated Youth Service.

Peggy has developed and managed an array of teams: Ending Gangs and Youth Violence, Borough Early Intervention Team, Child Sexual Exploitation Youth Advocate, Teenage Parents and Prevention of Extremism. In her last local authority posting she managed a Targeted Youth Service team where she was the single point of contact (SPOC) for young people aged 11-19 referred to the Early Help Service. She is an experienced trainer, specialising in Safeguarding, Sexual Exploitation, Case Work Management and Wellbeing Coaching.

Peggy was commissioned by Croydon Pupil Referral Unit through Young Londoner’s funding to deliver a whole school and family project underpinned by the Health Realisation understanding.

She offers one-to-one coaching, group work programmes and well-being retreats to teachers, youth workers, practitioners, young mothers, ex-offenders ‘Through the Gates’ and young people excluded from school. She is an accredited facilitator of the IHEART Principles (Three Principles-based school curriculum) as well as a special adviser to their team.

Amanda Elder – Director and Co-Founder

Amanda Elder is the Co-Founder of Living Truth CIC. She strongly advocates the importance of supporting and helping families within the community, and thus provides vital financial and personal aid to Living Truth. Significantly, she was the former director of a non-profit organisation helping teenage parents to access the necessary skills, education and support in order to become self-sufficient.

In addition, Amanda is a property developer specialising in supporting families with housing and benefits advice. 

She strives to support and enhance the prospects and well-being of those in her local community in whatever way she can. Her volunteer work with the elderly particularly embodies her caring nature.

Ultimately, Amanda believes that it is pivotal that everyone in her community is given a voice and the tools to evoke change and she aspires to make this possible throughout her work.

Matt Doran – Director of Sports

Matt Doran is the Director of Sports at Living Truth CIC. He has chosen to work with us as our ethos aligns with his belief that well-being comes from within. Matt has extensive experience with professional youth football clubs and has specialised in sports coaching. His coaching career started at Crystal Palace F.C. in both the community school programme and the academy for elite players. He successfully took the FA prelim badge coaching course and later the UEFFA B. Accordingly, he has also coached with several other clubs, including Fulham FC and Chelsea FC, on both academy and community programmes.

Matt has spent half a decade in specialist physical education at one of London’s most prestigious prep schools and gained further coaching qualifications in both football and tennis coaching. In addition, he has previously worked in the USA with the Head of USA PTR in South Florida, and with soccer players in Tampa Bay in the USA. On his return to the UK, he became head coach at several tennis and football clubs. Later expanding an enterprise in private sports and fitness coaching around a multitude of schools in London.

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Moreover, aside from football and tennis, Matt has an interest in Thai boxing, both as a teacher and a participant. Subsequently, he competes in semi-professional competitions and has worked as a commentator on televised Thai Boxing shows at the O2 London, both in the studio and ringside.

Our Advisory Board is fully representative of service users who have special education needs and disabilities and/or who have or experience mental ill health.