The Celebrate leadership team

Charles Whitehead
Charles Whitehead
Charles and his wife Sue began Celebrate. Charles wears a number of hats in the many areas he has responsibility for: Chairman of the International Charismatic Consultation (ICC); Past President of International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (ICCRS); Life Member of the English National Service Committee (NSC) for Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR); Co-chairman of the Charismatic and Pentecostal Leaders Conference; Director of Premier Christian Radio and the Christian Healing Mission. He has also been made a Papal Knight of St. Gregory the Great.
Jenny Baker
Jenny Baker
As regional coordinator for Celebrate, Jenny spends much of her time travelling to the many weekend events to support the regional core teams. She served the leadership team for a number of years and previously worked within the Catholic Church presenting CaFE resources. She also speaks at many of the Celebrate events and has recently joined the English National Service Committee for Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
Anne Nolan
Anne Nolan
Anne has been the backbone of many Celebrate conferences with her involvement spanning a large number of years. As a primary school teacher with experience in working with children with special needs, she has responsibility for safeguarding issues and so is a vital member of the team.
Peter Moran
Peter Moran
As one of the founders of Sion Catholic Community for Evangelism, Peter has a wealth of experience of missionary work with Catholic parishes and schools. He has served Celebrate for many years and brings his knowledge of evangelisation and the Church to the team.
Sarah Goldsmith
Sarah Goldsmith
Sarah, known as Sam, has grown up at Celebrate having attended her first conference at the age of 6 years. She has more recently become part of the team since she headed up the leadership for the Young Adult stream, Joel’s Bar. She gives of her time alongside studying for a PhD in History!
Sue Whitehead
Sue Whitehead
Sue is the mum of Celebrate having been responsible with Charles for its inception. She deals with all the administration of the main Ilfracombe conference as well as using these talents for many other conferences such as the Harvesters Weekend at Woldingham and other interdenominational conferences. Her main task is the support she gives to her very busy husband!
David Payne
David Payne
David has been with the Celebrate team for many years. He is the director of CaFE (Catholic Faith Exploration) that produce Catholic teaching DVD resources for parishes and schools throughout the country. He also presents on many of the different series and is a very popular speaker at Celebrate and many other conferences in this country and abroad.
Andrew Fava
Andrew Fava
A member of the Cor et Lumen Christi Community, Andrew travels down to meetings from Cumbria where he and his wife run a retreat centre community house. He is the most recent member of the leadership team and has much to give through his prayerful involvement and keen interest in the development of young people at Celebrate.
Claire Fernandes
Claire Fernandes
A longstanding Celebrate team member. Claire has led the ‘Switched On’ children’s stream for many years. Her experience as a teacher of primary children and as a catechist and lecturer in Primary RE is invaluable to a conference that has such a family focus.
Andrew Grundy
Honorary member
Andrew Grundy
Andrew has served the Celebrate leadership team for a long time with his technical expertise and logical mind. He is responsible for the huge task of sound and lighting, computers etc etc at the main Ilfracombe event and advises the regional weekends.