Our team consists of experienced, skilled and resourceful professionals committed to building community. With many years of experience working with marginalised groups, the directors and collaborators are passionate about providing a vibrant and needs led youth service for the community.
Catherine Lucktaylor is a ceramic artist and curator with a background in community arts, art and mental health and arts project management.
Catherine has always worked in the arts whilst maintaining her own art practice.
She worked on the decibel project for Arts Council England South East and is a founder member of Kowetha Black and Mixed Parentage Families Group in Cornwall.
Catherine is an experienced project manager and has developed and led many art-based projects managing large budgets.
María Stayne is a BACP registered Psychotherapist who specialises in trauma interventions. She has 12 years experience working with survivors of domestic abuse and sexual abuse with both West Cornwall Women’s Aid and First Light.
María has a 500 hour teacher training diploma from The Devon School of Yoga and Certification in TRE (Trauma Release Exercises). María works in a trauma informed somatic way with clients and delivers group work. She is in the process of completing a 3 year qualification in Shamanic Studies.
Bek Breslaw works full time managing the youth project.
She has experience with Child and Family Services including family support, child protection, fostering, adoption and autism when she worked for Cornwall Council as part of a Social Work team in the early 2000s. More recently she worked in both the NHS and the charity sector in adult mental health teams and Community Development.
Bek has a strong network locally both professionally and as a parent of teens.
Bek is designated safeguarding lead and is committed to continuing professional development, regularly attending a wide range of youth work related training courses.
Bek has run her own businesses and project managed arts-based initiatives which have involved holding and managing budgets.
We need your consent to load the translations
We use a third-party service to translate the website content that may collect data about your activity. Please review the details in the privacy policy and accept the service to view the translations.