Our People

Management & Operations

Inna Celinska – Operations Manager (Latvian, Russian & English Languages)

Inna attended Anglia Ruskin University and gained a BA Hons degree in Business Management in July 2012. In November 2012 she joined the ACCESS team as a tri-lingual project worker. She enjoys having the opportunity to support migrant communities and make a positive impact on their lives. Her interesting and diverse role also gives her the opportunity to enhance her essential knowledge and skills through continuous professional development and research.

Project Workers

Tatiana Dring– Project Worker (Russian & English Languages)

Tatiana joined the team at ACCESS in September 2019. In 2002 she achieved a BA Hons in interpreting from University of Foreign Languages in Russia. During her time in the UK since 2002 Tatiana has continually been using her language skills to help the migrant community. Working mainly in administration roles Tatiana was keen to further herself in a different areas and was broadening her knowledge by taking different courses. She is certified in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in 2004, Bookkeeping Level 2 -in 2007, Mortgage Advice and Practice Level 3 in 2018 and AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting -Level 2 in 2019.

Tatiana decided that helping others and making a positive impact on the community is the most rewarding role and is now using her combined skills to help others.

Dorota Vancans– Project Worker (Polish & English Languages)

Dorota joined ACCESS in January 2020 and joins our team of multilingual project workers. Dorota is fluent in both Polish and English languages.

Dorota attended the John II Catholic University in Poland and achieved a BA Honours in Family Studies in September 2005. Since 2008, Dorota had been working for one of the largest flower producers in the UK as an Office Assistant. Within her role Dorota assisted many of the seasonal EU workers in their day to day life by supporting and integrating them into their new roles, helping them to understand their rights in the UK, providing a translation service and helping with other work related issues.

Dorota decided to join ACCESS to further develop her skills in helping others improve their confidence and ability to build a life in the UK. Making a positive impact on the community in this way and using her own knowledge and skills gained over the years made for an exciting new career change.

Greta Price – Project Worker (Lithuanian & English Languages)

Greta joined ACCESS as a bilingual Project Worker in February 2020. During her time here in the UK Greta has attended school, college and recently graduated from university in January 2020 achieving a higher second degree in International Business Management. Greta has always helped friends and family with the language barrier as she speaks Lithuanian and English and so decided to use her skills and improve her knowledge to help other migrants in the community by joining the team at ACCESS.

Olena – Project Worker (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish & English Languages)

Olena has been with ACCESS since 2006, originally as a part time project worker, then as a full time employee. She left ACCESS in 2013 to start a new adventure in the housing sector but carried on volunteering at ACCESS. Olena now helps cover evening drop-ins in King’s Lynn.

Olena is very proud of what ACCESS has achieved over the years she has been involved and is fully committed to ACCESS’s role in helping people to integrate into the community, supporting equality, diversity and enhancing the life chances for newcomers by helping them understand their rights and responsibilities in this country.

Olena has a BA in Management from Lviv State University, Ukraine and an NVQ Level 3 in Business and Administration.

Ludmila Prohorova– Project Worker/Administrative Assistant (Russian & English Languages)

Ludmila gained a World History of Culture Bachelor’s Degree in Latvia in 2006. In October 2013 she volunteered to help at ACCESS drop-in sessions and became a part-time project worker in January 2017. Ludmila enjoys helping people and feels she is making a difference by helping them to settle in this country. Ludmila is taking a Teaching and Learning (Teaching Assistant) Level 2 Course and also enjoys working at St. Michael’s Academy with Year 2 children.

Trustees

Joanie Dimavicius – Chair

As the English born daughter of a Lithuanian migrant Joanie brings knowledge and insights to ACCESS about being part of a migrant family. Her professional background is based in health and social policy. She has in-depth experience of the charitable sector as the founder Director of the national charity Antenatal Results and Choices (1988-2002) and as a founder trustee and Chair of the national charity Genetic Alliance UK (1989 -2013).

She spent 10 years training health professionals and was Communications Consultant to one of the Programmes of the NHS National Screening Committee for seven years. She is now retired and joined ACCESS (formerly KLARS) as a Trustee in 2013, becoming Chair in 2016.

Alastair Kent OBE FRSA – Vice Chair

Alastair was the executive director of Genetic Alliance UK (the UK alliance of over 200 patient support groups for patients and families with rare and genetic disorders) for almost 25 years. In that capacity he was actively engaged in developing policy and practice in biomedical research and service development that would reflect and respect the needs and expectations of patients and families affected by serious, chronic and life limiting diseases that are rare, genetic or which arise from a combination of both these factors. Alastair worked at a national, European and international level to ensure that the voice of patients and families were heard and acted on in situations where decisions are taken and plans are made. He has been a member of many committees and working groups and has lectured and published on a wide range of issues relevant to patient and family needs and expectations.

Alastair was made OBE for services to health care in 2011, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2017,

Since retiring from Genetic Alliance UK Alastair has continued to work on behalf of patients and families affected by rare and genetic diseases. He is currently co-chair of the UK Rare Disease Policy Board at the Department of Health and Social Care and Chair of the Rare Diseases Advisory Group for NHS England.

John Fletcher – Treasurer

John joined the ACCESS board in 2014. He spent his working life providing editorial and publishing services to a range of companies. Now retired he is applying those skills to help ACCESS promote its message and services, and has also taken on the role of Treasurer. He is married to Joanie Dimavicius, the Chair.

Thelma Wadsley – Secretary

Thelma brings experience of information, training and community capacity building to her role as Trustee with a total of 20 years management experience in charities and not for profit organisations. Having worked with unemployed adults, run her own training consultancy business for 12 years, set up support networks for farmers in crisis during the Foot and Mouth epidemic and worked in Community Development for 12 years, Thelma fully appreciates the impact of easy access to good information at the earliest opportunity.

Sailesh Panchal – Trustee

Sailesh is the Chief Technology Officer at Orwell Group, which have fintech bank ipagoo.com, bringing payments & account innovations across Europe, including Poland for 2018. Sailesh is also the Chief Payments Architect for the UK New Payments Architecture which has set the strategy for the UK. Prior to this Sailesh was at Lloyds Banking Group setting their regulatory technology strategy and solutions. Sailesh joined ACCESS as a trustee having heard of their mission in supporting and enabling people to work and integrate into the community wherever they are from, whilst on a cycle sportive with ACCESS’s Director, Emma Humphrey. Sailesh hopes to contribute by bringing commercial, strategic and technical knowledge to the team.