Our team

SATEDA is made up of incredible individuals working to deliver our prevention work and support services in the community all year around – on the front line and behind the scenes.

CEO
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Carey Philpott

Carey joined SATEDA in 2015 having worked in social housing for 15 years. Having grown with SATEDA she now leads the charity as CEO.

Carey has extensive experience in the social sector and with an MBA in Senior Leadership, she’s excited to strengthen SATEDA’s systems and develop our services and activities to ensure women and children are at the heart of all we do. She also keenly champions the need for societal change, education and tools for young people to strive towards SATEDA’s vision to end domestic abuse.

Head of Support Services
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Sarah Carnell

Sarah Carnell is SATEDA’s Head of Support Services. Sarah’s first role in supporting women who have experienced domestic and sexual violence was in 1996 when she volunteered as a telephone helpline worker with a rape crisis centre. Since then, Sarah has supported women in both community and refuge settings. She has also taught compulsory aged children, and at further education and higher education establishments.

Sarah is a qualified SafeLives Independent Domestic Violence Advisor, Independent Sexual Violence Advisor and a Domestic Abuse Service Manager. She has managed teams of teachers and domestic abuse support workers.

Henu Cummins (Chair)
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Henu is the Chief Executive Officer of Mid Kent Mind, a prominent local mental health charity dedicated to supporting the well-being of individuals in the Mid Kent area. With a strong background in advocacy and leadership, Henu has played a key role in expanding the charity’s impact and reach. Prior to joining Mid Kent Mind, she led the Queen’s Award-winning charity DAVSS (Domestic Abuse Volunteer Support Services), focusing on domestic abuse, coercive control, and honour-based violence. Henu was named Mental Health Leader at the 2024 Kent Mental Wellbeing Charity Awards.

Simon Rafemoyo (Treasurer)
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Simon joined SATEDA’s Board of Trustees in April 2022. He is married to Jennifer, and they have 3 daughters. He is CIMA qualified with 10 years of experience in public sector finance, working for the Ministry of Defence. He is keen to contribute and help the most vulnerable people in society, particularly within gender equality and women’s rights. He wants to create an environment that empowers women and makes children feel safe.

Annette Davies
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Janet Garnons-Williams
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Janet is a former lawyer who worked in criminal justice, latterly as a District Crown Prosecutor in West Kent, specialising in cases of child abuse, serious sexual offences and homicides. Janet also trained as a mediator, dealing with in-house dispute resolution. Retiring in 2013, Janet joined the SATEDA board in 2014. She’s been active in promoting issues primarily affecting women and girls through membership of Soroptimist International, bringing a wider perspective to her work for SATEDA.

Sarah Manuel
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Sarah Manuel joined our Trustee Board in December 2024.
Sarah has 25 years’ experience working for regulators and professional bodies, gaining significant casework and team management experience across Fitness to Practise & Registration and Accreditation functions. Her work has included responsibility for Quality Assurance and Professional Standards frameworks, as well as the development and oversight of disciplinary, continuing professional development audit and regulatory processes.
Previously, she served as Head of Professional Standards at STEP, a global professional body for trust and estate practitioners, where she was responsible for developing professional standards and policy for the membership, with particular focus on the impact of UK regulatory policy on practitioners. Sarah currently works on the development of policy and regulatory standards for a legal regulator.
Sarah holds a BA (Hons) American Studies with History and has more recently gained an MA in Applied and Professional Ethics from the University of Leeds. In January 2023, she was appointed to the Association for Project Management’s Professional Standards and Knowledge Committee.
As a keen supporter of SATEDA, Sarah wants all women to feel empowered to reach their potential recognising that change comes through educating society to understand and recognise the signs of abuse.
Rachel Valerio
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Rachel is passionate about advocating for unrepresented groups and believes in supporting women and empowering them to be heard.  She joined SATEDA as a trustee in July 2024.
She worked for many years in prisons with varied roles such as resettlement and suicide prevention.  She moved on to the housing sector and has worked within homelessness, business assurance and social housing.  Her current role is as the Head of Tenant Services with a Local Authority.
Daniel Thompson
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Daniel joined SATEDA’s Board of Trustees in November 2024.
Daniel started his career in Banking, rising through the ranks first at Barclays (8 years) and then RBS/NatWest (9 years), the last 5 years of which he was a Director looking after business customers.  He then moved to Openreach where he was the Regional Director, leading 2,000 telecoms engineers across Southern England.
He has a passion for equality, diversity and inclusion across all walks of life and was the inaugural Chair for the Openreach Ethnic Diversity Network, leading education and change for 37,000 employees.
Having witnessed the important work SATEDA do in the community, he is keen to advocate against male-violence and support women to end the cycle of domestic abuse and rebuild their lives through SATEDAs specialist support, education, advocacy and prevention work.
Volunteering at SATEDA
Volunteers in action

At SATEDA we are extremely lucky to have such a dedicated and enthusiastic group of people all choosing to offer their valuable time to our charity.

Whether it is a few hours a month helping write letters for Project Hope or co-facilitating group programmes every week, our volunteers are key to SATEDA’s activities. Knowing that some of our volunteers have used our journey of support and stayed on to support others demonstrates the power of peer support in recovering from domestic abuse.