Partnerships Manager

Head Chef

Katherine is our Head Chef as well as food and nutrition lifestyle coach. Kat has a passion for cooking healthy and delicious meals and teaching people to cook from cooking on a budget, batch cooking, cooking for diet and well-being.

Kat has been part of the Roots4Life team since April 2022 and has probably feed thousands of children and adults across Greenwich. She is a very much valued part of our Roots4Life team from devising and cooking all the children’s holiday club menus, healthy cooking for our community meals and Warm Hub Wednesdays as well as running adult and children’s cooking classes.

 Kat trained as a Chef at Southend College of Technology and has worked in the catering and food industry for over 35 years. She has worked for Roux, Leiths as well as several FSTE 100 banks. She has catered for Directors, Captains of Industry to MPs.

 Kat ran her own deli, catering company, nursery and health nutrition company during COVID-19 pandemic.

Office Manager

Head Gardener

Pauline is our outdoor learning facilitator and keen gardener.  She is an ex-teacher with over 20 years’ experience working in education. 

During her time as a teacher, she held the position of Science and Outdoor Learning lead, obtaining the Primary Science Quality Mark, Silver Guilt, for her last school. Collaborating with the teachers, she wrote the Science curriculum for the whole school with an emphasis on outdoor learning.  Alongside this she developed the school allotment and wildlife areas

She also recently qualified as a Social and Therapeutic Horticulture Practitioner, and regularly works with children and adults to support their needs through gardening and connecting with nature.