Bruno Lacey

Background

About Bruno Lacey

I am an educator and entrepreneur with diverse experience in project management, business development, community building and fundraising - all in the service of creating a more just and sustainable world. In 2025, I joined Roots of Impact's Advisory & Advocacy team, where I help to build the movement for Impact Linked Finance, providing financial rewards for businesses who deliver greater impact. In 2024, I delivered two projects for Impact Hub Global: Impact Measurement for Diversity & Inclusion for Netflix; workshops and mentoring on pitching, financial management & solution validation for the EU-funded SOTECIN program, supporting 50 EU startups to scale circular businesses. I was also a finance mentor on EIT's Empowering Women in Agrifood programme, delivered in Portugal by Drive Impact. In 2022-23 I represented Impact Hub in the global collaboration: the Future of Conservation NGOs Innovation Challenge. I co-led this program with our partners at Unearthodox. We provided a range of mentoring and incubation-style support to disruptive startups in the Conservation sector. I am a co-founder and was the Finance Director of Upfarming Upfarming is developing new approaches to urban agriculture as part of the food revolution that is necessary to sustainably provide a healthy diet for our growing populations. It was the natural next step for me after almost a decade of creating and maintaining urban green spaces in London. In 2014 I founded Urban Growth which won a King's Award Enterprise in Sustainable Development in 2024. We work with businesses, councils, developers, restauranteurs & offices to nurture healthy green communities. I continue to support the amazing female-led team from Lisbon, where I moved in 2019. Here I worked as the Communications and Community Manager at Impact Hub Lisbon. I supported the growth of our community of entrepreneurs, enabling connections and creating events to inspire positive social and environmental change. I designed and ran three cohorts of a short course I called the Social Entrepreneurs Toolkit, introducing 30 aspiring founders to tools such as the Theory of Change and Business Model Canvas, and supporting the creative development of their business dreams. I am a qualified Action Learning Facilitator, leading small groups for personal and professional development. I am also a co-founder of Climate Change the Game, a board game to amuse, inspire & educate humans about the biggest challenge they face since sabre-tooth tigers.