Kate is a designer, educator and holistic grief coach who has spent over 25 years working across academia and the creative industries. In the last year, following her own lived experience, she’s found the work she feels most called to do: walking alongside people who have lost someone they love. Her approach is gentle and human - helping people feel safe in their bodies again, reconnect with who they are, and slowly make space for joy to return.

Kate wants to create a Wind Phone in North London - a quiet, public installation where people can speak to those they’ve lost. A Wind Phone is an old-fashioned rotary telephone that isn’t connected to anything physical, but offers a deeply symbolic space for grief. You pick up the receiver, dial their number, and say whatever is in your heart - talk, cry, whisper, or sit in silence. There’s no right or wrong way to use it.

Inspired by the original Wind Phone created in Japan in 2010, and noticing that there are very few across the UK - and none in London - Kate plans to build one using her parents’ beautiful old rotary telephone. With the $500, she’ll design the installation and commission a local craftsperson to help bring it to life, placing it in a peaceful natural setting such as a park, hospice grounds, or natural burial site near her home. A simple, powerful offering - holding space for grief, love, and everything left unsaid.