Team
JRS UK has a small staff team and works with many volunteers.
OUR STAFF TEAM
Aidan Cantwell, Operations Manager
Beatrice Grasso, Detention Outreach Manager
Cristina Pecheanu, Destitution Services Manager
Jessica Javaherian, Legal Caseworker
Jonathan Parr, Head of Accompaniment
Matilda Tonkin Wells, Refugee Activity Coordinator
Megan Knowles, Communications and Development Manager
Michael Tarnoky, Legal Officer
Liliane Djoukouo, Day Centre Officer
Naomi Turner, Communities of Hospitality Coordinator
Nicholas Hanrahan, Community Outreach Officer
Sarah Teather, Director
Sophie Cartwright, Policy Officer
Sou Huoy Lam, Administrator
William Neal, Communications Assistant
If you’d like to get in touch with any of our team, please use the links on the contact pages.
VOLUNTEER
JRS UK is indebted to our team of over 40 volunteers who contribute their skills, energy and time to different projects and the running of the office. If you are interested in volunteering with JRS UK, you can read more on our volunteering pages.
JOBS
From time to time, JRS UK recruits for paid members of staff. To see our latest vacancies please visit our jobs page.
JESUITS IN BRITAIN
The Jesuit Refugee Service in the UK is a work of the British Province of the Society of Jesus, to whom we are grateful for their continuing support and to whom we are accountable and report regularly. For more information about the Jesuits and their wider work, please visit: www.jesuit.org.uk
OUR GOVERNANCE
JRS UK upholds the principle of subsidiarity, endeavouring to be openly accountable for our work and transparent in our decision making. We work in partnership with other religious congregations, humanitarian organisations and refugees themselves. We encourage co-responsibility, discernment and participative decision making.
The Director is supported and advised by our management committee, which meets 4 times a year. JRS UK works closely with the Jesuit Refugee Service International, the Jesuit Refugee Service Europe and other Jesuit projects in Britain.
OUR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Paul Nicholson SJ, Chair
Alistair Dutton
Carine Zeka
Eiri Ohtani
James Conway SJ
Steven Lloyd, Treasurer
