As the founder of Eat Club, Ruth Soroko offers the charity a range of personal skills. Her Masters degree in Food and Nutrition Policy from City University of London underpins the academic and research foundation of Eat Club. Her past experience with running her own design business has given her financial and project management skills as well as aiding her in giving Eat Club a unique visual identity

Svenja is passionate about helping the environment and people and so has spent the last 7 years working in sustainability and community engagement roles, including many projects focused on food. Having had a love of food since childhood she is a keen home cook, hosting dinner parties for friends, as well as for charities including FoodCycle, Furloughed Foodies and Refugee Community Kitchen.

Liza is an AfN registered Nutritionist with a marketing background, and an interest in how our dietary choices and environment sit at the nexus of human, planetary and economic health. She’ll be getting more and more people to know about and support the incredible impact of Eat Club.

Mariana has been a chef for 18 years. She’s from Brazil and worked in São Paulo before working for almost 5 years in cruise ships. In London, she worked in restaurants, bras4eries, events and catering. In her opinion, cooking is food for the soul and brings people together.

Em is a food enthusiast with kitchen experience and a keen interest in provenance and seasonality.Em is currently cooking at a busy cafe in Walthamstow, working in a fast paced environment, delivering simple, thoughtful dishes.

Laura’s food journey started in 2013 when she found a bakery called The Biscuit Badger, here in London. Being Italian, food has always had a central role in her life especially in the South of Italy where she is from. In 2020 she enrolled in the Le Cordon Blue Madrid, where she lived for one year, graduating with a diploma as a pastry chef.

Rachel is a chef with experience cooking in a wide range of environments from fine dining through to cafe chef with stints as a chalet chef, wedding caterer, working on a salmon farm and everything in between. She studied nutrition at University and has always been passionate about food and getting friends and family into the kitchen.

Emily grew up on a diet of fish fingers and spaghetti’s and was very adverse to all "green stuff". Being inspired by a Sainsbury's ad featuring Jamie Oliver at age 6 she found the desire to learn to cook and fell in love with food. After training as a chef she became a bit fed up with how elitist and patriarchal the kitchen could be. She the decided to pursue teaching in order to foster a love of cooking in young people and improve the UK's food culture and has now worked as a food teacher for the last 2 years.

A toxicologist by training Alex Campbell set up and led the Veterinary Poisons Information Service and has been General Secretary, Treasurer and President of the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists. He has served as trustee for several charities, is a ‘foodie’ and is passionate about cooking, opera, singing and stage-arts.

Peter Brown is a corporate, marketing and brand strategist with over 20 years of experience including work at KPMG and Orange. He is a trustee and strategic advisor at The Connection at St. Martin’s, the leading London homelessness charity, as well as strategic consultant to Independent Age and The Seckford Foundation.

Tessa Tricks holds a Masters in the Anthropology of Food from SOAS. She had spent time in San Francisco where she worked with Seedling Projects on the Good Food Awards and the Good Food Merchants Guild as the Maybach Foundation’s Culinary Arts fellow. She has formerly worked with the Sustainable Food Trust and in the kitchen in The Ethicurean restaurant and written for Fork magazine and Edible Communities. She is now a creative partner at Hubbub.

Making a meal is like making an artwork portrait. An artist draws. a chef cooks. An artist adds a frame. a chef adds a plate. Both are accomplished with their position.

'Michelle is one of our young leaders. She is passionate about encouraging young people to have better relationships with their bodies and with food.'

Jordan is a Photographer and an aspiring Filmmaker currently finishing his studies at the London Screen Academy doing a UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology. He is an experienced Public Speaker and Poet having done events at South London Gallery and the Wellcome Collection.