Our Executive members

Ashley Gamble

CCLG Chief Executive

Ashley has day-to-day responsibility for the operation of CCLG. This 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 is a founding member of the Children and Young People's Cancer Coalition and 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.

Jeanette Hawkins & Jo Stark

Chief Nurses, CCLG funded by Young Lives vs Cancer

Claire Shinfield

Director of Engagement, CCLG

Dr Sara Stoneham

Consultant Paediatric & TYA Oncologist, University College London Hospital

Dr Emmy Dickens

Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

Gemma Renshaw

Dietitian, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

Dr Helen Jenkinson

Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Birmingham Children's Hospital

Dr Helen Rees

Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Bristol

Dr Jessica Bate

Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Southampton

Dr Lisa Howell

Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Liverpool

Liz Purnell

TYA Lead Nurse, Sheffield, Chair of CCLG TYA Board

Professor Steve Clifford

Professor of Molecular Paediatric Oncology, Newcastle

Dr Tom Jackson

Resident Doctor, Chair of Paediatric Oncology Trainees Group