Kate Biography
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Kate Markey
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Kate Markey has been CAN’s Deputy Chief Executive since 2008, previously joining the organisation two years earlier as Director of Communications.
She leads on CAN’s investment and business support services through CAN Invest and CAN Engage, its corporate engagement programmes. She also oversees CAN’s communications, marketing and sales work across CAN and CAN Mezzanine.
Kate has a longstanding career and commitment in social enterprise – working previously as an Executive Director of The Big Life Group in Manchester where she led on Policy, Communications and was also Editor of The Big Issue in the North for many years. Under her editorship, the magazine campaigned heavily to raise public understanding about homelessness and give homeless people a voice, including changing legislation to give homeless people the right to vote, to open bank accounts and have better access to support services.
She says: “There is a way of doing business successfully which benefits the majority, can regenerate communities and has the capacity to change lives for the better. I believe we all have a responsibility to leave this world in a better state than we found it – creating a powerful social enterprise market is one way of doing just that.”
Before joining CAN in 2006, Kate worked for Thomson Reuters international news agency in Caracas Venezuela as a journalist.
Kate holds a BA Honours in English and Communications from the University of Liverpool and her Senior National Certificate Examination (NCE) of Journalism (NCTJ).
In February 2010 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) in recognition for her contribution to the social enterprise sector.