Catherine is Patron of the charity Tag Rugby Trust; a charity that she has been involved with since 2007 which works across a number of developing countries with the aim to “Build futures through rugby”. She feels passionately about helping to develop communities around the world using rugby as tool. Most recently Catherine and TRT are building their Female Inspiration through Rugby or FITR programme.

Catherine’s story demonstrates clearly her steps towards success and highlights her focus and determination to improve and reach higher levels throughout her sporting career and beyond. Catherine grew as a leader throughout her time as Captain and offers some great insights into developing captaincy and leadership skills in a team setting. Her experiences of managing retirement from sport and taking the step to develop a new business as well as dealing with perceived failures adds a very real and honest focus to her delivery.
Catherine gained her CIPD HR Management level 5 qualification in September 2018 as well as receiving an Honorary Doctorate from Canterbury Christchurch University in the same year; she had a baby in 2019 and her own book is due to be published in February 2020. Always looking for the next challenge Catherine brings this mindset and message to her talks; that it does not matter if we don’t know where our end point is – as long as we look around, look forward and look up.