Green-Works is an award winning social enterprise and registered charity dedicated to helping the environment by diverting redundant office and school furniture from landfill by providing reused and remanufactured furniture to small business, charities, schools and community groups whilst providing training and real work experience to the unemployed.

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Who's Who

 Colin Crooks, Chief Executive Officer

 As a member of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management and achieving an MSc in Environmental Conservation, Colin is well versed in environmental issues. Colin's first business was Papercycle, a successful commercial paper recycling business which he set up and ran for five years. Colin has also been the Chief Executive of the Renew Trust, a second tier not-for-profit organisation setting up projects that provide training and employment in white goods refurbishment.

Now CEO of Green-Works which turns over £2m a year and employs more than 30 people, Green-Works has recently been awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise 2008 - Sustainable Development. Current projects also include donations to Africa for schools, hospitals and local facilities helping to redevelop many war-torn communities.

 

 Steve Swords, Corporate Sales Manager

Steve has been with Green-Works for 5 years and heads up the Corporate Sales Team. Their main function is to engage with organisations both large and small and sell the Green-Works reuse and recycling solution. Steve focuses on large projects and key clients such as RBS & Barclays as well as engages with partners such as Harrow Green and Steelcase.

Prior to Green-Works, Steve was a senior recruitment consultant for Corporate Finance and Management Consultancy practices and interestingly enough is now working with a number of the same organisations that he did when in recruitment.

 

 John Fleming, Chief Operations Officer

John is used to leading in large format, fast moving retail environments implementing sustainable change in commercial, local authority and the Third Sector. John joined Green-Works in 2009 to help the team with the process of change and to seek and take up the opportunities of working in partnership with other social enterprises and charitable organisations.

He comes with a broad business background having worked with John Laing, Woolworths, Boots and Scottish & Newcastle as well as Third Sector experience as Head of Division with Morph - part of the training Charity Pecan that was brought together with a division of the Shaftesbury Society to create a reuse division of Pecan called Morph.

 

Eileen Browne, Corporate Office Manager

As corporate office manager - Eileen will likely be your first point of contact. Eileen has been at Green-Works almost since the beginning and covered a variety of roles. Eileen not only takes the initial enquiries she gets those enquiries to the right person to give you the information you need!

Eileen is also the person that feeds back to you on where your donated furniture ends up and what it's been used for. With each consignment of donated furniture we will provide you with a detailed audit trail for your records to enforce your environmental credentials. 

 

Richard Cummings, HR Officer & General Manager Wembley

 

Richard joined Green-Works in 2008 and is responsible for the HR and training functions at Wembley. Richard also pulls large funding bids together at group level and successfully assisted two of our franchise partners with a large government funded project to help 137 trainees gain work experience in various functions across the group.

Richard has helped over 80 long-term unemployed people gain access to real work experience and gain vital skills via a successful volunteer programme. Richard worked a number of years in retail management after joining the trainee management scheme at Sainsbury's after his A levels, he attended university and gained a degree in Business before working in financial recruitment.  

 

Andrew Rogan, Deputy Manager Operations

 

  

  

  

  

Suman Bilimoria, Accounts Assistant

  

Kevin Frost, Systems Co-ordinator

  

  

  

 

 

 Adam Elnkeeb, Zone Team Leader

 

  

  

  

  

  Lee Morris, Joinery Zone Leader

  

  

  

  

  

Call us now on 0845 230 2231 or email on [email protected]