Ruth Cooke

Ruth Cooke currently serves as the Senior Operations Manager at Capitals Coalition since April 2023. Ruth has extensive leadership experience, having held the position of Chair of the Board of Trustees at ABIGAIL HOUSING from January 2020 to February 2024 and as Operations Manager at Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution from March 2019 to April 2023. Previous roles include Volunteer and Visitor Manager at Perennial GRBS, Learning and People Development at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, and Director at CS PUBS LIMITED. Ruth's career began as a Business Manager at McDonald's UK. Ruth holds a BA Hons in Charity and Social Enterprise CertHE focusing on Third Sector Management from Anglia Ruskin University, completed between 2018 and 2019.