Kesoberi Community Interest Company
Kesoberi CIC aims to provide services for the benefit of adults, young people and children in West Cornwall through a diverse range of activities.
We launched an open-door youth club in Penzance and Newlyn in December 2022 which provides young people with a warm, safe, supported space to be, with opportunities for fun, learning new skills and creative activities.
We now have our own premises on Alverton Street. Please check social media for updates.
The Kesoberi team
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 creative wellbeing service for the local community.
Fi Garrard
Director
Fi Garrard is a horticultural therapist, and has been a BACP registered adult, child and adolescent counsellor for over 15 years.
Fi is a counselling supervisor and has been a counselling tutor at Cornwall College on the Level 2 course and continues to teach Ecopsychology as part of a diversity module.
Fi developed a programme to deliver therapeutic forest school sessions to year 6 children, to help with the difficult transition from a small primary school to a large secondary school.
Catherine Lucktaylor
Director
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.
Maria Stayne
Director
María Stayne is a BACP registered Psychotherapist who specialises in trauma interventions and 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
Project Manager
Bek Breslaw manages the youth project. Through her role as Social Prescribing Community Development Worker for Age UK Cornwall & IOS she applied for the original funding which launched the youth project. She now works full time on the youth project.
She has experience with Children’s 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.
Bek has a strong network locally both professionally and as a parent of teens.
She is qualified to level 4 in counselling and level 5 in Youth, Community and Development work.
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.
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