Kate is grateful to work in her local Hospital Trust as a People Promise Manager; a joyful role seeking to support great staff experience. Leading up to joining the NHS, Kate has had a very varied career. Having trained and worked as a Civil and Structural Engineer in Manchester and Birmingham, Kate returned ‘home’ to Shropshire to join her family language school. Here she is settled very happily with her husband, Steve, her son, James, her daughter, Emi, and her dog, Pippa. Kate is grateful to have worked across all three sectors in community consultation, as a language teacher and later as a qualified maths teacher supporting vulnerable young people in care.

 Being invited to join in the authentic work of ReSource has been the most enormous privilege and blessing. Despite being a regular church attendee all of her life, it took until Kate’s 30s (and experiencing a bereavement through which she had significant encounters with God) to come fully to faith. Kate was called into lay leadership in her village church and only then understood the power of prayer and the reality of God. The experience of the gathered church and village school there was one of dying away to embers and then being fanned into flame by the powerful work of the Holy Spirit.

Kate joined the Trustees whilst working in the most exciting ministry as Intergenerational Missioner for Hereford Diocese and Bridgnorth Parish. The unusual opportunity to be a diocesan employee embedded in a parish with the freedom to share learning was a powerful one. Kate has experienced the joy of stepping out in faith, developing faith-based groups and watching the Holy Spirit show up again and again! It continues to equip Kate in the whole of her personal, fellowshipping and working life. Kate seeks to prayerfully and actively support others in understanding, discerning and experiencing the same in little, local and ordinary churches across the Diocese, the Country and ultimately the World.