Ruth Hollis

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Ruth Hollis

Chief Executive

Spirit of 2012

    

Speaker Biography

Ruth is Chief Executive of Spirit of 2012, a charitable trust set up in 2013 with £47 million by the National Lottery Community Fund to invest in projects which continue the pride, positivity and inspiration of the London 2012 Games and the way it helped people feel better about themselves, others and their communities. She has been with Spirit since it was founded and became Chief Executive in 2019. Over the past 10 years Spirit of 2012 has used the momentum of events, starting with the London 2012 Games, and including both Commonwealth Games and Hull and Coventry Cities of Culture as catalysts for social change, to inspire and create more permanent legacies, engaging more than 80,000 people across the UK in activities and creating 60,000 volunteering opportunities. In 2021 Spirit published an Inquiry into the Power of Events setting out 5 recommendations for to help the UK delivery world-class long term impacts from events as well as delivering world class events.

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