Lucy is the Executive Director of East Manchester Environment & Resources Group Emerge (EMERGE), and was one of its founder members in 1996. She has built the organisation and its team to the £1M turnover social enterprise group it is today. An original pioneer of waste recycling services in Manchester, EMERGE is an environmental charity with over 20 years’ experience of empowering individuals, businesses and communities to reduce, re-use and recycle (the 3Rs).