Katherine Perrin
Katherine is an experienced freelance charity consultant, facilitator, and coach. She is passionate about helping individuals and organisations collaborate more effectively, communicate more meaningfully, and increase their impact.
She loves building communities of practices, embedding participatory approaches and supporting groups to learn together, and her work often centres on creating the conditions for learning, connection, and change—whether through strategic support, community-building, or facilitation.
Coaching and mentoring, Facilitation, Team building, Training
Children, young people and families, Community development, Criminal justice, Education and employment, Health and social care, Infrastructure organisations
Clients
Katherine has worked with a range of organisations, including Shaw Trust, Blagrave, Community Leisure UK, KFC Youth Foundation, Together Co, National Institute for Health and Care Research, the Clock Tower Sanctuary and the Charity Retail Association.
She is also currently an Associate with the Relationships Project
Qualifications
ILM Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management
Certification in the LEGO® Serious Play® method
Certification in coaching with the MOE Foundation
Experience
Katherine brings 12 years of charity management experience, having held senior leadership, operational and project management roles. Previous employed roles include senior leadership in an infrastructure organisation (CVS), regional volunteer oversight and large organisation project management.
Coaching – her specialism is in supporting new managers or those in isolated roles with limited support networks, such as sole staff members.
Facilitation – she brings experience designing and delivering everything from whole-organisation away days and large-scale conferences to intimate team sessions and reflective practice groups. Her facilitation style is relational, inclusive, and grounded in participatory values, with a particular interest in supporting people to work with greater self-awareness and intention.
Her certification in the LEGO®SeriousPlay® method is the perfect complement to her wider work in facilitation, as well as being an Action Learning Set lead. LEGO®SeriousPlay® is a unique, tactile way of exploring topics. The method encourages people to use metaphor – using the LEGO® bricks to build models that represent their thoughts and ideas. Highly accessible, democratic and gently playful, it’s a surprisingly powerful way to facilitate deep conversations and gain new insights on key issues.
Consultancy – her recent projects as a consultant include:
– Co-designing a new organisational strategy
– Evaluating the impact of a grassroots crisis-point service
– Designing and delivering national training
– Creating workshops and resources to support young people’s access to work
She is also a volunteer mentor with the Cranfield Trust and a trustee at Making It Out, a Sussex-based CIO offering creative arts to those moving on from prison, homelessness and addiction.
