Cathy Ashley, Baroness Ashley of Lambeth
British charity executive
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Catherine Helen Ashley, Baroness Ashley of Lambeth, OBE (born January 1965[1]) is a British charity executive. Since 2004, she has been chief executive of the Family Rights Group. She is also active in the Labour Party as national treasurer of the Jewish Labour Movement and was a councillor on Lambeth Council in the 1990s.[2][3]
The Baroness Ashley of Lambeth | |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 2 September 2026 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Catherine Ashley January 1965 (age 61) |
| Party | Labour |
From 2010 to 2016, Ashley was chair of trustees of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.[4] In the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to Holocaust commemoration and awareness".[5]
In the July 2026 political peerages, it was announced that she was to be made a life peer and will sit in the House of Lords for the Labour Party.[6]