Cathy Ashley

Catherine Ashley, 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]

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]

References

  1. ↑ "Catherine ASHLEY personal appointments". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
  2. ↑ "Cathy Ashley - National Treasurer". The Jewish Labour Movement. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
  3. ↑ "Chief Executive: Cathy Ashley OBE". Family Rights Group. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
  4. ↑ "Holocaust survivors and educators named in Queen's Birthday Honours List 2017". Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2017. p. B10.
  6. ↑ "Political Peerages July 2026". GOV.UK. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street. Retrieved 16 July 2026.