The Trustees provide oversight of the organisation's performance, finances, risk management and operations, ensuring robust governance, sound financial management, and compliance with employment, health and safety, data protection and other statutory obligations to safeguard the long-term sustainability and integrity of the charity.
Chair
David Oxnam
Managing Director, Clear Group Ltd
Trustee members
Ashley Ball-Gamble
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), CCLG. He has day-to-day responsibility for the operation of CCLG which includes defining strategies across all the activities of CCLG and leading on the implementation of those strategics, ensuring an efficient and effective organisation that delivers its objectives and enhances the impact and profile of the organisation. Ashley is responsible for providing expert advice across the wide range of CCLG activities, including fundraising, and provides leadership to the staff team at CCLG HQ. Ashley represents CCLG on a range of advisory boards and committees including the NHS England CYP Cancer Clinical Reference Group, the NCRI Children's Group, and the NIRH Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Strategy Group.
Natalie Agboeze
Strategic Partnerships Director at Restless Development and has worked in the charity sector for over 13 years. She brings both professional expertise in youth-led development and lived experience of being diagnosed with cancer at the age of 21. She is passionate about ensuring that children and young people’s voices are genuinely heard and placed at the heart of decision-making.
Ngozi Ayanru
Ngozi has worked through most finance and commercial functions at strategic level and led several cross functional and multi-cultural teams. She built her business investing in real estate and building houses in various countries and recently commenced the same in the UK. She has been a board member supporting charities focused on children’s causes. She is also an associate lecturer impacting next generation on leading contemporary organisations and executive leadership & governance. Underpinning all she does is strategic leadership, finance, and digital transformation.
Dr Hollie Chandler
Currently Director of Policy at the Russell Group, which represents 24 research-intensive universities across the UK. Her previous roles have included managing research and charity policy at Cancer Research UK and a fellowship in the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Hollie completed her PhD in molecular oncology at UCL following her natural sciences undergraduate at the University of Cambridge. She sadly lost her 20-year-old brother to skin cancer and this experience has shaped her drive to contribute to organisations focused on improving cancer outcomes.
Dr Sarah Curtis
Currently Head of Sales Data Centre and Hybrid at Computacenter. Sarah is an experienced sales manager and strategic leader in the technology sector, with previous roles at Google and Cisco. Sarah is the parent of a childhood leukaemia survivor.
Andy Donnelly
Currently the UK Sales Director for a networking company based in London. Born in Glasgow, he has a degree in electronics engineering and has worked all his career in IT, specifically computer networks. Andy is the parent of childhood cancer survivor.
Dr Angelo Ercia
Currently works as an evaluation and research consultant and is a teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is an experienced qualitative, participatory and mixed-methods researcher with expertise in digital health, health care systems, and public health.
Catherine Gregory
Currently Head of Communications and Content at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute with a mission to make AI and data work for people and society. Catherine has over a decade of experience leading communications teams in the third sector. Catherine sadly lost her niece to a high-grade glioma, and she is passionate about ensuring that families have strong support as they navigate cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Dr Bushra Khawaja
Currently a GP Partner and a Primary Care Cancer Lead for RM Partners Cancer Alliance, with a focus on improving early cancer diagnosis in primary care. She also serves on the Hillingdon Local Medical Committee (LMC) and tutors medical students at Imperial College London. She has a strong interest in early cancer detection and quality improvement around cancer care.
Dr Angela Polanco
Currently National Head of Public Partnerships at NIHR and is also a qualified midwife. Angela’s daughter Bethany was diagnosed with a kidney tumour aged four, and sadly relapsed and passed away three years later in 2012. Following Bethany’s death, Angela started the charity Bethany’s Wish to support families of children diagnosed with a Wilms tumour, which later became a Special Named Fund of CCLG, supporting research. Angela has been active in childhood cancer research and a parent advocate for several national and international studies.
Laura Thomas
Currently Head of Policy & Evidence at the Multiple Sclerosis Society. She is an experienced policy and strategy leader with a proven record in shaping impactful policy, influencing and evidence projects across complex, multi-national symptoms. She has worked in senior roles in a variety of charities including at Macmillan Cancer Support and the British Heart Foundation.
Rachel Wilcox
Rachel is a qualified accountant. Before retiring, she worked for the UCLH charity.