Kate Sayer is a partner at Sayer Vincent, leading audits and other assignments for clients. She is also a trainer, facilitator, coach, advisor and consultant. Kate leads assignments to help charities to be more effective, finding better ways to undertake risk management, manage support functions and plan. She also advises charities and social enterprises on a wide range of finance and tax issues, such as trading and VAT.

She is also a visiting lecturer at Cass Business School for courses in charity finance and has extensive knowledge and experience of governance, law, VAT and tax law relating to charities, risk issues and implementing strategies. In addition, Sayer is a regular expert speaker at conferences and leads the firm's work on adaptive performance management, which helps not-for-profit organisations improve their performance. www.sayervincent.co.uk