Before joining Doorstep Library in June 2025, Lucy held previous roles at Leonard Cheshire Disability and arts in healthcare charity, Paintings in Hospitals. Prior to fundraising, Lucy worked in the film industry for several years.
Lucy believes being read to as a child and discovering books has a lifelong influence. From hungry caterpillars to parallel universes, stories that capture the imagination can open doors into art and culture in all its forms, inspiring learning, resilience and self-expression.
As a small child, Lucy liked stories that mainly involved medieval princesses dressed in 1960’s ballgowns, but she loved Piggly Plays Truant, a now classic Ladybird Book (verse and illustrations by A.J Macgregor) in which Piggly plays truant from school with his best friend and they have to be rescued when their rowing boat starts to drifts perilously far away from shore……
