Age Champions

What are Age Champions?

We have a rapidly growing ageing population so it’s more important than ever for older people’s voices to be championed and heard in Parliament.

Age Champion MPs commit to championing their older constituents and older people in Parliament by doing one, or more of the following:

• supporting Age UK’s work in Parliament in a range of ways; speaking up in debates, tabling Parliamentary Questions or writing to Ministers
• joining the APPG on Ageing and Older People
• sharing Age UK’s information with your constituents
• supporting and promoting Age UK’s campaigns
• ensuring your constituents can reach you in a range of ways, not just online
• committing to visiting your local Age UK or engaging with an older person’s forum in your local constituency once a year
• speaking up for older people across the world by supporting the work of Age International.

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How we will support you to be an Age Champion

• We will work with Age Champion MPs to ensure that you receive regular updates on the issues affecting older people and how you can help support older people in your constituency, nationally and worldwide.
• Policy analysis and statistics to support your work including conversations with our policy experts.
• Information for your older constituents, with help from Age UK’s advice team to support your casework.
• A bespoke area profile and statistics on the challenges facing older people living in your constituency.
• Support drafting Parliamentary Questions and speeches on issues affecting older people.

How do I sign up to be an Age Champion?

If you would like to become an Age Champion, please email us at publicaffairs@ageuk.org.uk.

Our current Age Champions are:

• Mr Dave Doogan – Angus and Perthshire Glens
• Ms Wera Hobhouse – Bath
• Mr Ian Lavery – Blyth and Ashington
• Mr Barry Gardiner – Brent West
• Ms Sian Berry – Brighton Pavilion
• Ms Carla Denyer – Bristol Central
• Ms Kerry McCarthy – Bristol East
• Mr Tristan Osborne – Chatham and Aylesford
• Mr Tom Morrison – Cheadle
• Ms Mary Kelly Foy – City of Durham
• Ms Bell Ribeiro-Addy – Clapham and Brixton Hill
• Mr Frank McNally – Coatbridge and Bellshill
• Ms Margaret Mullane – Dagenham and Rainham
• Ms Catherine Atkinson – Derby North
• Mr Chris Coghlan – Dorking and Horley
• Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms – East Ham
• Ms Liz Jarvis – Eastleigh
• Ms Kate Osamor – Edmonton and Winchmore Hill
• Mr Colum Eastwood – Foyle
• Ms Anna Sabine – Frome and East Somerset
• Mr Zubir Ahmed – Glasgow South West
• Mr Jonathan Brash – Hartlepool
• Mr Freddie Van Mierlo – Henley and Thame
• Mr John Milne – Horsham
• Ms Kate Osborne – Jarrow and Gateshead East
• Ms Cat Smith – Lancaster and Wyre
• Mr Richard Burgon – Leeds East
• Mr Fabian Hamilton – Leeds North East
• Rt Hon Hilary Benn – Leeds South West and Morley
• Dr Jeevun Sandher – Loughborough
• Mr Brian Mathew – Melksham and Devizes
• Mr Saqib Bhatti – Meriden and Solihull East
• Ms Vikki Slade – Mid Dorset and North Poole
• Mr Martin Wrigley – Newton Abbot
• Mr Alex Easton – North Down
• Ms Wendy Chamberlain – North East Fife
• Ms Ellie Chowns – North Herefordshire
• Ms Helen Morgan – North Shropshire
• Ms Layla Moran – Oxford West and Abingdon
• Ms Amanda Martin – Portsmouth North
• Ms Fleur Anderson – Putney
• Ms Sarah Champion – Rotherham
• Ms Olivia Blake – Sheffield Hallam
• Mr Clive Betts – Sheffield South East
• Ms Pippa Heylings – South Cambridgeshire
• Ms Anna Gelderd – South East Cornwall
• Sir John Hayes – South Holland and the Deepings
• Mr Ben Goldsborough – South Norfolk
• Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck – South Shields
• Ms Daisy Cooper – St Albans
• Mr Manuela Perteghella – Stratford-on-Avon
• Rt Hon Gideon Amos – Taunton and Wellington
• Ms Sharon Hodgson – Washington and Gateshead South
• Mr Adrian Ramsay – Waveney Valley
• Mr Derek Twigg – Widnes and Halewood
• Mr Paul Kohler – Wimbledon
• Mr Danny Chambers – Winchester
• Mr Clive Jones – Wokingham