Barnet and Camden are both places which mean so much to me. I have built my life here — living, working, volunteering and campaigning for the past two decades. I know how powerful local people can be we organise together. I’m running to be your Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden because I want to use my experience of working in our communities to improve our local area.

For well over a decade, I have been involved in community-led improvement projects in Cricklewood, where I live. As Chair of my residents association and a member of the Cricklewood Town Team, I led the campaign to successfully save the green space in the centre of Cricklewood. The Town Team has transformed our local train station from eyesore to pride of place, with community gardens and art work. If elected, I will build on my record of empowering communities.

I first got involved in community activism when my children started school. As the Governor of a Barnet Primary School and a Camden Secondary School, I have seen how damaging years of austerity has been to the wellbeing and life chances of young people. I strongly believe that the free school meals programme should be extended into school holidays, so no child goes hungry. While the Government has been forced into taking this step as a one-off response to COVID-19, I will campaign for safer communities and opportunities for all young people.

As your Assembly Member, I will work with TFL to ensure more accessible travel, from improved step free access to ensuring we retain free bus travel for under 18s and the freedom pass.

And I know how important the environment and clean air is to all of us. I will work to expand the Mayor’s tree planting program across both boroughs, and work to ensure long term, sustainable solutions that are both safe and environmental for when more people start commuting to work again. 

I have a proven track-record of delivering for my constituents. As the only Labour councillor in my own ward and the three nearest wards, residents come to me when they feel their Tory councillors won’t help or don’t care. I was elected to Barnet Council in 2018 as the first Labour councillor in Childs Hill in forty years. In my role, I have seen first-hand how Barnet’s right-wing Tory administration hurts the very people and communities they are meant to serve.

Having worked with our current Assembly Member Andrew Dismore, including on housing schemes and waste sites planned for the Brent Cross Regeneration, I want to continue this work as your next London Assembly member.

Sadiq Khan and I are standing up for London’s values, and for a more affordable, greener and safer city. You can find out more about our vision for London here: https://sadiq.london/standing-up-for-london/ 

It would be an honour to represent this area, which I have been so lucky to call my home for the past 20 years. 

If you have any questions or anything you want to raise with me, please do get in touch. I would be delighted to hear from you! anne@anneclarke.co.uk

“Anne is passionate about schools deeply rooted in the communities they serve. As Chair of Governors of Camden's largest Comprehensive school, Anne embraced the Meet the Parents programme which builds local confidence in Camden's secondary schools. Anne is a well known governor across the Camden Family of Schools and is the go-to person on education in her patch.”

— Madeleine Holt, Founder of Meet The Parents

“Anne Clarke will be a fantastic Assembly Member. She is one of the hardest working councillors I know, representing the toughest marginal seat in Barnet. She was the only Labour gain for in 2018, winning in Childs Hill for the first time in over 40 years.

Anne has the vision and determination to represent the people of Barnet and Camden. Residents are always at the heart of the work she does and Anne always has her finger on the pulse of local opinion and priorities. I have always tried to be a champion for the residents of Barnet & Camden, and I can think of no better person to carry on that work than Anne Clarke after years of community campaigning. Barnet & Camden could not wish for a harder working and dedicated representative than Anne.”

— Andrew Dismore AM, Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden

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