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In 2001 Rachel Vecht founded ‘Educating Matters’.  She started out her career as a primary school teacher and also trained student teachers.  Throughout Rachel’s teaching career in both the state and independent sector, she was inundated by parents seeking advice on how to support their children’s learning at home. Educating Matters evolved through her substantial experience teaching children, having 4 children and addressing parents’ concerns, questions and difficulties over the last 25+ years. Read where we have been featured in the Press 

We work with and support:

  • Diversity & Inclusion

  • Learning & Development

  • HR teams

  • Employee Benefits

  • Employee Resource Groups & Networks

Over time the Educating Matters offering has evolved and we provide guidance and support beyond parenting, around much broader topics relating to creating diverse and inclusive cultures at work, such as: allyship, race, gender, ethnicity, mental health & wellbeing, neurodiversity,  disability, work life integration, caring, LGBTQ+ and emotional intelligence.

Meet Our Team

Founder

Rachel Vecht

Trained as a primary school teacher at the Institute of Education in London and taught in both the state & independent sector. She has also worked as a University Mentor and lecturer to student teachers. In 2001 she founded Educating Matters to provide practical support and guidance to employees at work, covering a broad range of topics including educating children, positive parenting skills, diversity and inclusion and balancing work and family. She draws on her experiences as a mother of 4. She also delivers online parenting courses, speaks in schools, writes in the national press and offers one-to-one consultations to parents globally.
She is a Genos Emotional Intelligence and Wellbeing facilitator.
Rachel focuses on topics relating to educating & raising children, integrating work & family, Emotional Intelligence and Wellbeing.

Gwen

Gwen studied Psychology at the University of Utah with a focus on child and adolescent development. She then trained to become a teacher in Special Education, working with children with severe behaviour disorders, autism and the at risk population in both the UK & US. She has trained many educators on behaviour management and cultural awareness. Gwen is a mother of 4 and has children with both autism & ADHD. Most recently, she is completing an MSc in Organisational Psychology. She has trained as a psychotherapist, family therapist and parent coach and now works with both children and parents in that capacity.
Gwen focuses on mental health, Special Educational Needs, LGBTQ+, single parents, unconscious bias, diversity, allyship, disability, blended families and bullying.

Alice

Alice has a background as a producer in corporate and commercial video and communications, working for brands such as Astra Zeneca, Virgin Money, KPMG and BP. Alice has taken courses in counselling and coaching and hopes to start a psychotherapy degree later this year.
Alice’s role at Educating Matters focuses on account management, social media and marketing.

Catherine

Catherine worked in PR for Cable & Wireless Communications followed by Brand Management at the New Covent Garden Soup Company. She then specialised in digital marketing at the IoD and Robert Walters,before joining Sky in 2009 working at Exec level on major change projects. Whilst at Sky she had a child and founded Sky’s parenting network and the Women in Leadership initiative. In 2017 she left Sky to focus on her vision of creating a world of work where working parents and women in leadership can reach their full potential.
Catherine delivers guidance around work life balance, professional & work related issues.

Catherine

Catherine has experienced first-hand the physical, mental, and emotional stress of
working while caring for a loved one, having been a carer for nearly 20 years and a
qualified coach. She is co-Director of a social enterprise, whose mission is to coach
unpaid carers to live a life they choose, where no-one need give up what’s important
to them to care for someone else.
Catherine delivers guidance and support for carers.

Daniel

Daniel has been a digital marketing specialist for over 10 years running his own consultancy practice Tudor Lodge Digital and working with clients such as McDonalds’s, Groupon, Savills and Betway. He has a passion for education following his degree in Business Management and Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham and he is currently a board member of Immanuel College School in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

Paris

Paris has a hugely inspiring life story. She entered the care system aged 6 due to her mother’s imprisonment, facing multiple placements and significant challenges, which she overcame to become a successful educator and advocate. She worked as a teacher and lecturer in Health, Social Care, and Psychology. Paris has been nominated for several awards, including the Positive Role Model Award for Race, Religion, and Faith at the National Diversity Awards and the CPD Trainer of the Year.