Call the Chaplain book launch by Leicester Partnership NHS Trust 16th May 2014

It was a great honour to be present at the book launch of Call the Chaplain at Leicester Stage Hotel yesterday. The LPT had put on a fabulous event with intervals of song from Kate's Songbirds choir from LPT and wit from the deputy CEO and Chief Nurse Adrian Childs. The event was attended by people from all aspects of Kate's ministry including volunteers, switchboard operators, former colleagues, nurses, consultants and CEOs, including the publishing editor Christine Smith from Canterbury Press, friends and family.

LPT had made a video of Kate's work as Head of Pastoral and Spiritual care in the Trust and some of the reasons she wrote the book especially around issues of "Dying Matters".

Sylvia Lancaster spoke powerfully of her work for the Foundation, started in response to the death of her daughter Sophie and her partner Rob, who were attacked and killed in Manchester  for just being Goths. Sylvia works to educate communities and government on recognising sub cultures in hate crime legislation and adopting preventative strategies to tackle it. All the proceeds from Kates book are going to support the Foundation.

Kate also spoke briefly on the "lollipops"like stepping stones that had had dramatically enabled her work as a chaplain and as an author.