Clare Cook

Much of Clare’s professional life has been spent in charity leadership roles, from Great Ormond Street Hospital and Child Bereavement UK to Missing People, Executive Director of the London Gay Men’s Chorus and CEO of Soundabout, a small national charity which uses music to give a voice works to create musical communities without barriers, giving a voice to people with severe and profound learning disabilities, creating musical communities without barriers.

Her passionate belief in the life-changing power of choirs led her to create a network of 14 Soundabout Inclusive Choirs for people of all abilities which celebrate that everyone has their own unique way of sharing their voice. Previously, while at the charity Missing People, she co-founded the Missing People Choir of families with missing loved ones and supporters, who reached the finals of Britain’s Got Talent 2017, which brought global attention to the issue of missing, and resulted in two people coming home to safety.