Kate Chapman

Freelance journalist

United Kingdom

News & features writer with a passion for the countryside, food, farming & children's literature.
I am NCTJ qualified and have 20 years' writing experience with bylines in a variety of magazines and newspapers - everything from Woman's Weekly to Farmers Weekly!

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the Guardian

07/31/2026

Experience: I drive a bus for dogs

I worked with children for years, so the noise doesn't bother me. You know you've done a good job if they're quiet on the way home

the Guardian

03/20/2026

Experience: I've been on more than 2,000 hot-air balloon flights in 124 countries

I loved Tanzania - we flew over hungry lions in a national park

My Weekly

02/03/2026

Changing Career Later In Life: How I Became A Celebrant

Amanda swapped marking tests for marriage vows by becoming a celebrant. She learned it's never too late to change course and find joy again.

the Guardian

05/23/2025

Experience: I paint using cremated ashes

My clients are comforted by having their loved ones immortalised in an original artwork

The i Paper

10/12/2023

Lincolnshire people have been voted the most boring - I'm outraged

In all my years, I've never wanted to leave

the Guardian

04/14/2023

Experience: I've run the village shop for 50 years

More people shop online, but they still come here for things missing from their order

The Telegraph

06/29/2021

Confessions of a Panini parent: I'm on a mission to complete my son's Euro 2020 sticker book

With 678 stickers to collect, filling my child's football album has become an obsession - for me as much as him

The Mirror

02/10/2018

Palaeontologists train their beagle dog to sniff out dinosaur fossils

Her owners Jamie Jordan and Sarah Moore are palaeontologists - experts on the massive reptiles that roamed the planet millions of years ago.