About Ruth Lee
Ruth is a freelance consultant working in the Arts and Cultural sector. She has over 30 years’ experience in development and leadership roles across a diverse range of settings, including educational, not-for-profit, and commercial. An experienced fundraiser at local, regional, and national level Ruth offers participants in her workshops and programmes a ‘lucky dip barrel’ of knowledge gathered from the work she has done with the diverse group of individuals and organisations.
Ruth brings to the Summer Intensive for People Dancing her experience in developing and delivering both strategic and tactical business plans for financial management, income generation, and fundraising. Ruth is a highly valued mentor to experienced and emerging artists. Ruth co-authored the ‘Developing Income Streams for Participatory Arts Practice’ for People Dancing and co-created the ‘Proof of the Pudding’ a resource for artists to help them demonstrate the value of their work.
From 2013-2020 Ruth was the Director of Development for People Dancing and until November 2022 she was the Executive Director for Aakash Odedra Company (Leicester Dance Theatre). Since December 2022 Ruth has been working as a freelance consultant with clients including London Borough of Camden, Art Reach, Inspirate, We Are Epic, Round in Circles Productions, Platform31, Bamboozle Theatre, Beth Storie, Laura Dredger- Move Space and Advancing Women in Dance supporting their income generation planning, fundraising and dynamic thinking. Ruth is the Executive Director of Hubbub Theatre, a learning-disabled theatre company based at Deda in Derby. She is a trustee of The Spark Arts for Children and a member of the advisory board for Sidekick Dance Company a learning disabled dance company based in Leicester.
Image credits: Top: Ruth Lee leading a workshop for Platform31’s Lean On programme. Image: Dean Leivers. Above: Ruth Lee.