I’m Lucy. I develop and deliver projects that put communities in control of their spaces. I work at the intersection of creativity, environmental, spatial and social justice. 

 

My works sits with and between communities, local authorities, third sector organisations, artists and funders. I have a specific interest in working with residents who are systemically excluded and at risk of displacement.

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I am 2023 Churchill Fellow, with a focus on community-led regeneration in disinvested neighbourhoods. 

 

I currently co-ordinate the new neighbourhoods programme at London Borough of Southwark, setting up deliberative decision making processes and working with local groups. Alongside this, I work freelance for arts organisations including Peckham Platform and Staffordshire Street.

 

For nearly five years, I worked in co-design and community engagement teams at Sustrans London. Here, I led a range of programmes and projects including the co-design of street spaces in Hounslow and re-designing entrances and exits to Finsbury Park.

 

In 2022, I led the Creative Civic Change project for social art organisation Peckham Platform. This project brought together Windrush generation elders, youth groups and artists to creatively respond to their experience in the context of regeneration and gentrification. 

 

I spent a year working for the non-profit Design West in Bristol including projects with Generation Place, a national network of place-based educators. I also helped produce Bristol Open Doors Festival, the region’s largest festival of the built environment.

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I am a former member of the Old Kent Road Community Review Panel and a former placemaking and landscape specialist for the Southwark Design Review Panel. In 2024, I was invited to join the Quality of Life Foundation as an Associate. 

 

I pick up many self-driven projects. This includes leading the transformation of an unloved alleyway in the Carlton Grove Estate in East Peckham; co-founding a community garden in Chiswick; and developing projects for Tactical Urbanistas, a collective of women who draw attention to inequity in the built environment through bold, creative actions and installations. 

 

I am an experienced fundraiser, with successful applications for a number of local authorities, statutory funders, arms-length bodies and private trusts and foundations. In 2019 I obtained a professional qualification from the Institute of Fundraising and helped to establish the South West chapter of the Young Arts Fundraisers. 

 

In my spare time, I am a yoga student (and sometime teacher), amateur gardener, reader of many books, cooker of vegetarian food.