Throughout 2025, CAST has continued to build upon its success and reputation, further establishing itself as an award-winning organisation. We were honoured to receive the Best Mental Health First Aid Education Provider award at the Education & Training Awards 2023, 2024 and 2025 in the UK.
Our progress has been marked by our ability to adapt to the changes in traditional learning environments that have occurred in the last 5 years. By learning from the experiences and feedback of our customers, CAST has evolved to ensure our training is accessible and relevant to the needs of our learners.
CAST offers a wide variety of workforce development and training solutions, available both virtually and face-to-face, across our generic and bespoke course offer. This flexibility allows participants to choose the format that best suits their learning preferences and circumstances.
We maintain strong working relationships with several leading national and international organisations in the field, including Public Health England, Mental Health First Aid England, LivingWorks Education, The National Centre for Suicide Prevention Education & Training, and Lifeline Workshops Inc. In addition, we have developed new partnerships, such as with Chasing The Stigma and its Ambassador of Hope Programme, further expanding our reach and impact.
During 2025, CAST expanded to work with a large local authority in designing and delivering a Train the Trainer programme for a bespoke piece of workforce development. This involved collaboration with an established training provider to co-produce Foundation Training: Parent Infant Relationships, Perinatal Mental Health, and the First 1001 Days.
We have continued our work with existing clients, with our Mental Health First Aid Training at University College London reaching it’s 7th year. Our contributions continue with Public Health North Yorkshire commissioning us again for 2026, our 5th year of working with them as a favoured training provider, and our presence at National Grid as a MHFA and SFA training provider continues too.
Katie was a Keynote Speaker for National Grid at their wellbeing conference earlier this year, speaking during Mental Health Week on the importance of community for our mental wellbeing. She also provided 2 workshops on self-harm and suicide for Yorkshire Causeway Schools Trust annual conference.
The upcoming year will bring exciting enhancements to CAST’s training offerings, as we develop closer relationships with local authorities and third sector organisations to meet workforce training needs. Our focus is specifically on supporting staff to support the children, young people and adults they work with in all areas of mental wellbeing. That includes supporting the workforce with their own mental health and wellbeing, to navigate successfully and safely the work they do.
We continue to work towards improving the mental health of our communities with every single training solution we provide for our clients.
All of the learning solutions C.A.S.T. offers aim to build an individual’s confidence, knowledge, skills & understanding of a wide range of mental health & safeguarding issues.
We can design & develop bespoke training to meet specific learning aims & objectives, and we can train anyone over the age of 16.
Led by Katie Marlow, CAST Learning Solutions is dedicated to creating safer environments through internationally renowned training courses and workshops.
Katie works with other highly qualified associates to deliver set training courses and bespoke workshops.
The driving force behind CAST Learning Solutions is to make a real difference to the wider community.
“If I ever get an opportunity to work with Katie in the future I will grab it with both hands. Katie not only knows her stuff, she delivers it in a professional and engaging way which makes some really difficult subject matter easier to understand.”
North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Board Manager (2012-2018)
“I would urge anyone working within this field to take the training, and couldn’t recommend Katie as a trainer enough. She does fantastic work for us in North Yorkshire and course by course is ensuring that the county is safer… “
Amber Graver, Stronger Communities Development Officer