Directors
Jane Chevous is a survivor of familial child abuse, sexual exploitation as a teenager and clergy rape/spiritual abuse as a young adult. Co-founder and managing director of Survivors Voices, she has fore-fronted participation and lived experience in a 40+ year career in education, social care and children’s rights, in the voluntary, statutory and faith sectors.
With qailifications in social work, youth & community work and lifelong learning/teaching, she recently gained an MSC with distinction in Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion from the University of Hertfordshire.
An activist, writer and survivor-researcher, Jane works with our amazing survivor team to provide all areas of our work, and leads our writing and publication work, training and consultancy, and our faith and abuse community of practice. As vice-chair of the National Safeguarding Panel of the Church of England, she is keen to ensure survivors’ perspectives are central to the necessary changes to safeguarding in the faith sector. Founding director of Reshapers CIC, our parent company, she also leads We Learn We Change, our registered learning provider, specialising in learning for social transformation, led from lived experience.
Author of ‘From Silence to Sanctuary: a guide to understanding, preventing and responding to abuse’ (SPCK) and a writer publishing regularly on abuse and mental health, spirituality and sailing, she explores all these themes at Barefoot Tales. Her other passions include being a grandmother, textile art, playing her accordion and bluewater sailing.
Lynn Breckenridge had previously worked with co-founders Jane and Concetta at the chidren’s rights charity, Coram Voice, where she was Director of Finance and Resources for ovwer 20 years. She joined Survivors Voices as Director in 2018.
Core Team
Roz Etwaria of LittleRo.org is a co-leader in our peer support work and partner in a number of other research and activism projects.
Advisory Board
We have a skilled and dedicated team of advisors with professional and lived experience, who support us in decision making and strategy. This is led by our co-founder and former Director, Concetta Perot.
Concetta Perôt is a psychotherapist and social worker (BACP & HCPC registered) with over 25 years of experience of working with children in care and prisons and running peer-led self help groups with adult survivors of childhood trauma. She has a first class honours in Social Policy from the LSE and an MSc with distinction in Mental Health Studies from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London. Her dissertation was on the assessment and treatment of trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She is a Research Associate with King’s College London, and was the lead researcher on our Charter for Engaging Abuse Survivors. She has also worked on the NAPAC national helpline providing telephone support for adult survivors of abuse and is experienced in group work, advocacy, training and organisational development. Mother of two and a mosaic artist, she has facilitated many group-based community arts projects and has seen first hand the positive power of both peer-support and creative expression on mental health. Concetta is passionate about developing research evidence and practices for survivor-led, community-based and creative approaches to trauma recovery.
Adina Dinu Adina is a career and leadership coach, trainer and consultant based in London, UK. After 20+ years of experience across multiple HR specialties and a personal recovery journey from CPTSD, Adina founded Trauma At Work Ltd. to help those impacted by adversity to thrive at work.
Adina holds a M.Sc. in Human Resources Management, and is currently enrolled in the Traumatic Stress Studies Certificate Program delivered by the prestigious Trauma Research Foundation.
Dr Roxanne Khan is the founding director of the Honour Abuse Research Matrix (HARM) at onEvidence, a global network dedicated to improving child abuse and domestic violence policy and practice through collaboration.
Her work centres on amplifying the voices of survivors and supporting those committed to ending abuse. Roxanne has spearheaded numerous projects to enhance the understanding of child abuse and domestic violence, particularly ‘honour’-based abuse.
With an extensive international network of academics and practitioners, Roxanne serves as an advisor to various organisations and government bodies. Her efforts aim to develop training, guidance, and policy to better serve survivors of child abuse and domestic violence. She is deeply committed to working alongside survivors and other experts to drive positive change.
Roxanne wholeheartedly supports Survivors’ Voices’ dedication to survivor-led approaches in research, policy, and practice.
Rev Dr Bob Mayo is an Anglican priest, prison chaplain and survivor of childhood sexual abuse. He has worked previously in parish and theological college.
Associates and Volunteers
A team of long-standing members run our peer support groups and Survivor Gatherings. Freelance and volunteer associates collaborate with us on our research, training, consultancy and activism projects. We are grateful to the many volunteers and groups that have been involved in our past activities. Read Our History to find out about our projects and activities over the last 20 years.
Organisational structure and accountability
Survivors Voices is a project of Reshapers Community Interest Company (CIC), a social enterprise that promotes creativity, learning and activism to transform people’s lives. We have a high standard of ethical practice (see Our Values), including safeguarding, DBS checks and a complaints process. Our work is accountable to our community of practice, board of directors and the CIC Regulator.
