Between 2000 and 2006 I founded and grew London Community Recycling Network (London CRN, with the RE now turned from Recycling to Resource) to 16 staff members and a turnover of £850,000; was instrumental in securing over £85 million of funding for the sector; supporting social enterprises to secure nine large-scale public sector contracts totalling more than £35 million p.a. turnover; and leading the start-up of six large-scale new Community Recycling providers, each with year one turnovers of between £600,000 and £1million.