Meet the Team

The Europia Family

Kush Chottera

CEO

Dima Kulyk

Development & Engagement Manager

Honor Johnston

Business Development and Research Worker

Iryna Oliynyk

Advocacy Worker and Office Coordinator

Elena Chivyska

Health and Wellbeing Coordinator and Safeguarding Lead

Jwana Faraj

Immigration Adviser

Jo Lake

HR Manager

Magdalena Kij

Community Connector (Freelance)

Paraskevi Kotopouli (Vivian)

Volunteer & Project Coordinator (Freelancer)

Diana Brivniece

Caseworker Support (Freelancer)

Ruth Mullen

Senior Immigration Advisor

Europia Volunteers

Europia Volunteers offer their time for free in return for work experience, skills development, professional development and other opportunities available at any one time. The role is interesting and varied and currently, the EU national volunteers include Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish people living in Greater Manchester and the UK. Thanks to all Europia Volunteers, we couldn’t do without you!

Europia Student Placements and Interns

Europia Student Placements and Interns are essential to the Europia Family just as much as the Europia Volunteers. Recently, student placements have been included in the growing Health and Wellbeing team and Interns are working across the charity, in different teams. Being a part of Europia means you get to experience a wide variety of supportive roles and an insight into the running of a charitable organisation. Thanks to all.

Europia Board of Trustees

Chair: Sriharsha Nagaraj (appointed February 2023)

Paul Lajszczak (appointed December 2017)

Artur Bobikyan (appointed June 2021)

George Wright (appointed February 2023)

Emma Clay (appointed November 2023)

Richard Harvey (appointed November 2023)

Would you like to become a trustee of Europia contact our HR manager Jo Lake (jo.l@europia.orguk)

Europia Ukraine Advisory Panel

Artem Trofymenko

Would you like to be on this panel contact Goda Karinauskaite (goda.k@europia.org.uk)