Bath and Somerset’s Most Inspiring Women 2024 | Katrina Kelly
To mark International Women’s Day 2024 on 8th March, we’re celebrating some of Bath and Somerset’s most inspiring women.
Through our website and social media channels, we asked our readers which women in our community inspire them and created a list of 20. The list will be printed in our spring magazine and from Friday 1st March, every weekday throughout the month we are profiling and championing each of these fantastic women online and via our social feeds.
Today we put the spotlight on Katrina Kelly, Head of Community Engagement at the University of Bath and Co-Founder of The Co-Forest Project.
Katrina is credited with bringing the University of Bath and local city stakeholders closer together. She was part of the founding team at Bath Digital Festival and is also Co-Founder of the Co-Forest project, which aims to bring together like-minded individuals and organisations to plan brand new woodland.
Her nomination said, “Katrina is the role model of an individual who gives a huge amount to her work, her community and to local charities. Alongside her role at the University, Katrina was one of the founding team at the Bath Digital Festival – a charity which grew the festival from its humble beginnings thorough to its handover to TechSpark in late 2023.
“She is also the cofounder of the Co-forest project which successfully raised £250,000 in just a few days to plant over 10,000 trees near Almondsbury over the past two winters. Over 4,000 volunteer hours were spent at the site across hundreds of volunteers from local organisations.
“Katrina is an utterly inspiring individual – showing that it is possible to create meaningful impact on so many around her.”
Pictured above: Katrina Kelly
This feature is sponsored by Milsted Langdon accountants. Milsted Langdon are supporting this activity for a third consecutive year as they are passionate about supporting women in business and helping local communities thrive through their work with business owners, charities and not-for-profits.
