Lucy Hancock

Lucy is the Chief Executive Officer at Leeds Mind and has over 25 years experience, largely in the third sector with a range of charities, specifically in the areas of homelessness, multiple needs, criminal justice, mental health and wellbeing.

Lucy has substantial operational and leadership experience with a focus on continuous improvement, equality and inclusion, user involvement and lived experience. Lucy also sits on a variety of cross-sector forums, including safeguarding, domestic abuse, trauma, and mental health reference groups. It is this mix of career, voluntary, personal experiences and interests that Lucy believes can be of benefit to St Anne’s both through the committee work and overall in supporting the organisation to deliver its aims and objectives. Lucy sits on the Quality and Safeguarding committee and is keen to see how this work relates to St Anne’s values.

Outside of work Lucy enjoys time with her family, most things food-wise, travel, running, yoga and is part of a longstanding book group that even does some reading.

Lucy is a Member of the Quality & Safeguarding Committee and a Member of the Health & Safety Committee, she was elected to the board in 2022.