A management committee is elected at our Annual General Meeting, with representation from PFI Stakeholders, organics representatives, furniture representatives and general member representatives. The committee meet every six weeks to two months to plan and progress Lancashire CRN activities.
Liz has a huge amount of experience working within the third sector and combines a strategic understanding with the ability to engage with ordinary people supporting them to achieve their aspirations. Within her role as Enterprise Network Manager for Selnet, her primarily responsibility is to develop and promote Social Enterprise across Lancashire working in collaboration with members and the five Social Enterprise hub networks that exist across the county, to further develop and build capacity within the sector. Selnet is the lead body representing Social Enterprise in the Lancashire sub region providing a range of services to members and non member organisations. Liz joined Lancashire CRN as Chair in 2009 and in her capacity as Chair, welcomed members to the 2009 Red Rose Recycling Awards and at the 2010 Annual Conference.
Recycling Lives Chief Executive Officer, Charles Jackson was born in 1957 as the youngest of five sons, to a hard working Preston family. Following a craft engineering apprenticeship at British Leyland, he began working in the scrap metal recycling industry at 20 years of age. As Chief Executive Officer, Charles has been responsible for developing and steering the business, a job that has been both hard and rewarding. Successes along the way include the 2005 Business Link, Lancashire Small Business of the Year award and in 2008 Charles became the Business Link, Lancashire Business Person of the Year. Charles was past chairman of industry trade body, the Motor Vehicle Dismantlers Association (MVDA) during the implementation of the ELV directive. The Recycling Lives business has grown into a multi faceted, diverse and substantial operation, employing 180 people and achieving an annual turnover of almost £20 million (2008 /2009). As proud winners of the 2010 Queens Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development, Recycling Lives was commended for having sustainability at its heart. Charles, a keen sporting cyclist, sits on the board of British Cycling, the UK governing body for cycle sport, and he is currently the vice president and chairman of the road commission.
David Penney has lived in Colne for over 15 years and belongs to a number of voluntary/community groups. He is a co-founder and Treasurer of Pendle Environmental Network, and Vice Chair/Planning & Development Officer of SELRAP (Skipton-East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership), as well as Treasurer of Pendle and Palestine Twinning Group. He serves on the Board of Pendle Community Credit Union. He also belongs to other agencies, such as Pendle Local Strategic Partnership and its Sustainable Places Group. He chairs the Colne Neighbourhood Action Group and serves on the Colne Market Town Partnership and 2 of its Project Groups [Transport & Accessibility; Social, Community & Environment]. His main interests are environmental, housing, transport, responding to strategic & planning issues as well as attending Examinations-in Public and Local Public Enquiries.
Dawn is the Community Sector Development Officer for Global Renewables Lancashire and a key part of this role is coordinating the Lancashire Community Recycling Network. Dawn organises the Annual Conference, Annual Awards ceremony, training events and visits. Other projects she works on relate to bulky waste reuse and recycling, commercial waste collections, working with universities to divert reusable waste from landfill and developing a recycling service for events in Lancashire. Dawn has a keen interest in practical sustainability, enjoys camping, cycling to work (on a bicycle from Furniture Matters) and enjoys pottering around her third attempt at a vegetable garden...
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Phill Dewhurst has fifteen years experience in arboriculture and associated land based disciplines and has worked as the Offshoots Permaculture project Manager for Groundwork Pennine Lancashire for the past eight years. Prior to this he was the Tree Officer for the Forest of Burnley (Burnley Borough Council - Millennium commission programme) where he managed the planting, establishment and promotion of a unique urban arboretum. Phill has held managerial positions within Oxford University, Burnley Borough Council and Groundwork Pennine Lancashire. Within those roles he has developed and delivered projects that have achieved local, regional, national and international recognition. He has achieved this through developing productive working relationships with regional Government cabinet ministers, director level local authority officers, local elected members, Titled private estate owners, directors of FTSE 100 companies, Managers and directors of National, regional and local third sector organisations, community activists and volunteers.
Cat has worked in the environment sector for over 15 years. She started work in conservation, training as a full time volunteer from university and has volunteered on many organic farms in this country and overseas. She moved on to supervise a therapeutic horticulture project and next worked with Groundwork Trust before starting work with the Waste Management Group at Lancashire County Council. She has always had a commitment to living as well as working in a resource conscious way, using real nappies on her 2 little boys and utilising solar and wind generators as a domestic energy source
Stuart came to the waste and recycling sector through the voluntary and campaign route with national and local environmental organisations. This lead to a change in career and he has now spent 20 years in the industry working for local authorities, the third sector and a paper merchant. He is currently the Waste and Recycling Manager at Blackburn with Darwen where he manages various waste and recycling contracts as well as performance management and environmental education. Outside work he is a keen runner and squash player, enjoys wildlife, industrial heritage, art and music.
Harry has been the Community Leader of Emmaus in Preston for over a year. Emmaus “the charity that works” offers homeless people a home, work and the chance to rebuild their lives in a supportive environment. Harry previously worked for ‘Villages in Partnership’ in Croston and Groundwork, and prior to this spent 24 years in military. Harry is a keen gardener, and a canoeing, climbing and mountain walking instructor, but all of these have lapsed due to currently commitments! Harry joined the committee in 2010 as a general member.
Dave is originally from London but came to Lancashire to do a management degree at the University of Central Lancashire. He has been with Recycling Lives Charities’ commercial partner Recycling Lives Ltd for nearly 10 years fulfilling a number of roles including Legislation Consultant, Projects Manager and Commercial Manager. Dave now fills the position of Strategic Development Manager identifying new business opportunities, leading and managing key projects and acting in a consultant capacity to other areas of the business. He also leads a team in the development of many of the charities’ behind the scene operations including specialist projects and commercial operations. Dave is an ‘individual member’ of Lancashire CRN and joined the management committee in 2010 as a general member.
