“Ruba stepped in to support us in covering essential marketing work, and the big process of digging into, researching, and putting together a marketing strategy. Ruba was a real pleasure to work with: a rare combination of ever calm, knowledgeable and impressively decisive, yet always generous, supportive and great at listening. Ruba is a genuinely warm and capable human being and a reassuring steady pair of hands. She was able to easily befriend the team, understand our complex organisation, manage a large amount of work and research, and establish clear and strategic goals for us – all while stepping in on numerous other tasks with a positive attitude. We are still working with Ruba on certain key projects and hope to continue for as long as possible!”
Tom Jowett, Head of Programming and Partnerships, The Ultimate Picture Palace
“Ruba stepped in to support us in covering essential marketing work, and the big process of digging into, researching, and putting together a marketing strategy. Ruba was a real pleasure to work with: a rare combination of ever calm, knowledgeable and impressively decisive, yet always generous, supportive and great at listening. Ruba is a genuinely warm and capable human being and a reassuring steady pair of hands. She was able to easily befriend the team, understand our complex organisation, manage a large amount of work and research, and establish clear and strategic goals for us – all while stepping in on numerous other tasks with a positive attitude. We are still working with Ruba on certain key projects and hope to continue for as long as possible!”
Suzi Attree, Head of Fundraising and Communications, Old Fire Station
“Ruba is simply brilliant. She has excellent experience in all aspects of communications work – we worked with her on a range of projects, for all of which she worked on a press campaign, the creation of a visual ID and printed materials with an external designer, and social media content. She is full of creative ideas and always quick to understand and translate a marketing brief in order to create truly accessible content for a wide range of audiences.”
Clare Stimpson, Head of Communications, Modern Art Oxford
“Ruba has had such a huge impact on Split Banana, and her legacy is still alive through the marketing strategy she helped us to refine and put into process. She really *got* us, right from the beginning. She slotted into the team, the brand and our ways of working together, whilst asking the right questions, getting us to reflect on who we were as an organisation and pushing us to go further on how we might tell our story. I am SO grateful for her support and I will continue to sing her praises for any team!”
Matilda Lawrence-Jubb, Development Director & Co-Founder, Split Banana
“Working with Ruba was an absolute game-changer for us. She has an incredible ability to make you feel confident about your ideas while pushing your thinking further all with warmth and humour. She is brimming with practical and creative solutions: from running a thorough brand consultation to helping us shape our strategic vision, auditing what was working (and what wasn’t) in our marketing and supporting key hires. It was an absolute joy to work with Ruba and we’d thoroughly recommend her to anyone else.”
Anna Alexander, Director of Learning & Engagement & Co-Founder, Split Banana
“Ruba offers that rare combination of being able to truly listen and understand an organisation’s needs and offer interventions with incisive clarity and confidence.Ruba is highly capable working at all levels from strategy to copy word smithing, and across platforms from video to blog writing and events. With her approach Ruba brings an infectious energy, builds meaningful relationships and naturally motivates others. She also cuts through the nonsense and the noise, offers strong leadership and a welcome sprinkle of fun to the work. It’s an absolute joy working with you.”
Andy Edwards, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Makespace Oxfordshire
