Ashley Ball-Gamble

Ashley is the Chief Executive of CCLG: The Children & Young People's Cancer Association, the UK and Ireland’s professional membership association for those involved in the treatment and care of children and young people with cancer, and a leading charity funding research and supporting patients and families. With a background in charity leadership, strategy and performance, Ashley strongly believes in collaborative working, bringing together a network of charities to drive research strategy and increase funding.

Ashley is a founding member, and current Chair, of the Children and Young People's Cancer Coalition, a member of the NHS England Children and Young People's Cancer Clinical Reference Group and NHS Scotland Managed Service Network Board, and a number of key committees and boards related to children and young people's cancer. Ashley initiated the Children's Cancer Priority Setting Partnership, jointly funded by CCLG and The Little Princess Trust, and sat on the steering group for this work, and is active in research with particular interests in early diagnosis and in lived-experience involvement in research. In 2025, Ashley was invited to become a member of the Government's Children & Young People's Cancer Taskforce.