The London4Europe Committee is elected by London4Europe members at the Annual General Meeting. The last AGM was held on 12 February 2025.
All Committee members are volunteers who give up their time to help support London4Europe and wider European Movement UK initiatives. The Committee is made of passionate pro-Europeans from different professional backgrounds and a range of political persuasions.
The Committee meets virtually once per month to discuss London4Europe and wider activities.
Your Committee needs to know what you are thinking and how you are feeling!
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London4Europe (L4E) Committee
Jo Pye is the current Chair of London4Europe. Her mantra is "Our EM Supporters are our gold dust" and, since joining L4E in 2019 as the (then) L4E Volunteer Coordinator, she has served terms as the London Region Members' Representative and later Branch Representativ on the EMUK National Council and continues, as a member of the L4E Committee, to encourage, widen and support our pool of activists. For Jo, there is no hierarchy of activism; all activity is significant from remembering to renew our membership, through spreading the pro-EU message to friends and family, letter-writing, blogging, tweeting, leafletting to street stalling, EURO Cafes and, where practical, marching. We all do what we can. She is an Anglo-Italian, multi-lingual campaigner. Not surprisingly, she is also involved in several national pro-European and civil society grassroots movements, all of which support each other in their breadth of activity and permit cross-campaigning collaborations. She welcomes all feedback at [email protected]. She will be retiring as Chair after three years at the next AGM in New Year 2026.
Nick Hopkinson is a current
Treasurer and
Blog Editor of London4Europe. With a long track record of activism within the European Movement nationally and locally, he continues to writes about Brexit and tweets regularly @London4Europe. During his 23 year professional career at Wilton Park, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s policy forum, he served as Director. He specialises in all aspects of the Brexit process and European Union policies. Contact:
[email protected] Twitter:
@NickHopkinsonEU
Andy Pye is the continuing Secretary of London4Europe and London4Europe Nationbuilder administrator. His main centres of activity currently comprise coordinating the L4E Strategy project, the L4E webinar programme ((The Fourth Thursday Club) and is involved in several nationwide projects for twinning and youth opportunities. In his spare time(!), he is a professional editor and technical writer serving UK manufacturing industry for nearly 40 years. He sees, first hand, the damage Brexit is doing to our key economic sectors. Additionally, as a volunteer, he runs a successful multi-sport Youth Coaching & Development Project in Greenwich and Lewisham, plays cricket for the Kent Over 60s and is Secretary of Holmesdale FC (semi-pro team in Bromley)!
Francesca Arena - Committee Member since 2025
David Barrett - Committee Member since 2023
Peter Benson -m Committee Member since 2023. Peter is already well-known as a founder member of Thank EU for the Music and collects volunteers to hand out the very popular EU Flags at the Last Night of the Proms. He is active in pro-European grassroots groups. His diverse collaborations widen the scope of our L4E range of activities.
Leo Capella is an autistic job coach for a national autism charity in the UK who has won awards both professionally and as a union representative in the autism and wider disability fields. By night or on his day off, he is an active member of the European Movement in London, participating in national EM events on our behalf. In his own words "when not zombified", he does "the odd bit of poetry, beta reviewing and hopefully some serious writing as well as volunteering around autism, disability and getting Britain back into the European Union, (please!)".
Priyenka Devkota - Youth Advocate from 2025
Valentina Governi - Youth Advocate from 2025
Nick Heenan - Committee Member from 2022
Manon Ring - Youth Advocate from 2025
Gill Travers - Committee Member from 2025
