Alison Garnham, Baroness Garnham

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Garnham
FAcSS
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage
1 September 2026
Personal details
BornAlison Esther Garnham
July 1959 (age 67)
PartyLabour

Alison Esther Garnham, Baroness Garnham, FAcSS (born July 1959) is a British charity executive and academic of social policy.

Biography

Garnham was born in July 1959.

Her early career was as an lecturer at the University of North London, before moving in to the third sector as director of policy for One Parent Families and then as CEO of the Daycare Trust from 2006 to 2010. Since 2010, she has been chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group.

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. She was created as Baroness Garnham, of Stoke Newington in the London Borough of Hackney on 1 September 2026.

Garnham is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

References

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  4. ↑ "Alison Garnham: Commissioner on Commission on a Gender-Equal Economy". www.wbg.org.uk. Women's Budget Group. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "Alison Garnham". Fairness Foundation. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Political Peerages July 2026". GOV.UK. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
  7. ↑ "No. 65172". The London Gazette. 4 September 2026. p. 17446.
  8. ↑ "Fellows: Ms. Alison Garnham FAcSS". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 16 July 2026.