About Penny

Penny has nearly 30 years’ professional experience in asset-based community development and organisational leadership across the voluntary sector and local government. Her background includes project management, health and social care policy development, leading strategic grant funding programmes and commissioning. Penny has worked across a range of health and social policy areas, including homelessness, supported accommodation, mental health (adults and children and young people), employment and family services.

Over the past 10 years, Penny has developed her coaching and training expertise alongside co-designing and delivering peer-led programmes that empower people with lived experience to create and implement community-based solutions that support the mental health and wellbeing of children, young people and the adults around them.

Penny is a facilitator for Transform Your Training, as well as the founder of The Parent Village, a charity that supports and empowers parents to support the mental health of children and young people.

Penny is passionate about creating nurturing, engaging and fun learning environments where people feel able to contribute, share ideas and learn from one another. She focuses on helping participants leave with practical steps they can put into action in their everyday work.

I really like how engaging the session was and how comfortable Penny made everyone feel this topic can be hard for some people to get their head around and use the correct terminology and there was no judgement on prior learning and knowledge!Taye Training Delegate