Empowerment
At the YWBP sessions, the young women would write and record music together and meet female leaders in the music industry, such as session musicians, sound engineers, and touring musicians. One of the attendees, Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani, began to work with Kate as a trainee, and together they ran workshops and worked towards releasing Spark, a compilation of music by the young women and other female musicians across Oxfordshire.
The success of YWBP continued to grow as the group released more compilations, named Spark 2 and Spark 3. The CDs were released with events coordinated at the institutions Modern Art Oxford and the O2 Academy Oxford. As well as increasing visibility of women in the Oxford music scene itself, Zahra and Kate also ran workshops that allowed women to question the unequal position of women in the music industry. One activity was analysis of popular music magazines, whereby the young women would count how many pages you read until you saw a woman, see how she was represented, and the implications of this. Kate and Zahra continued their aim to challenge the status quo of the music industry, and in 2006, through the Arts Council, YWBP filmed and produced a documentary with Film Oxford called Young Women Rock.
In the late 2000s, Kate was diagnosed with breast cancer but continued to write, perform and work with young women over the two years she was battling the disease. Before her death, Kate and Zahra discussed the future of the project and how it should continue the work that Kate had started. Kate died in 2009, leaving Zahra the project and a legacy that gave girls the support, time and resources to discover and develop their musical talents.