Europia - supporting Eastern and Central European nationals in Greater Manchester

Every charity needs money to operate – to pay overheads such as staff, marketing, hosting events etc so that it in turn can help the people it works with. So it’s vital that Europia’s funding is sourced efficiently – which requires a lot of research, excellent bid-writing skills and gathering evidence and feedback. Honor is Europia’s  Business Development and Research Worker and part of her role is to source such funding. We speak to her about her role, some recent successes and Europia’s plans for future projects.

Food from our home country is not only filling, comforting and satisfying, reminding us of our heritage, but it also puts health and wellbeing at the forefront of our minds.

In this episode, Projects Coordinator Chiara tells us about a new project that Europia is taking part in - Grandma’s Health-Boosting Recipes.

Send your favourite recipes on email, with pics and videos welcome, to: chiara.f@europia.org.uk

In this episode, we focus on how Europia works with the Roma community within Greater Manchester, and how the charity’s health and wellbeing offering for this community is expanding.

Elena, who is the Health & Wellbeing Project Worker at Europia, discusses:

• Europia's Roma community groups 

• Events such as Roma Blouse Day

• The Roma Health & Wellbeing Project 

• Mental health support including free counselling

• Winter health

• Plans for an allotment

• Cervical cancer screening project

It's the most wonderful time of the year! So the team at Europia talk about their favourite Christmas traditions, and how they are spending the festive season.

This episode features:

Iryna - office coordinator - tells us about fasting before Christmas in Ukraine 

Rachel - Health & Wellbeing Manager - shares her British family's ultimate Christmas movie marathon.

Roza - Communications & Events Assistant - explains how growing up in the Czech Republic meant celebration on the 24th.

Honor - Business Development - has an interesting fact about Scottish the holiday season.

Karol - Operations Manager - on taking time out to watch his favourite musical

Marlena - Partnerships and Communications Manager - loves to travel during the holidays

Ramona - Roma Advocacy Worker - creates lots of lovely food, for friends and family

In this episode, we speak to Elena who is the Health & Wellbeing Project Worker at Europia.

We discuss Elena's background, from growing up in Bulgaria to living and studying in the North West of England. 

Elena tells us about her work in psychology and the projects Europia runs alongside the Eastern and Central European community in Greater Manchester.

Europia works towards empowering, supporting, training and representing European nationals in Greater Manchester. From Ukrainian support to Roma events and advice on immigration to focusing on health & wellbeing, we take a holistic approach to help people thrive in their new communities.

Europia is a community development organisation and charity est. 2008. We are committed to supporting and empowering Eastern European nationals in Greater Manchester.