About Jane

Born in Bradford in 1964 Jane went to school there and then read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford. She joined John Lewis from university and has enjoyed a varied career with Britain's premier industrial democracy. Jane currently manages the John Lewis customer magazine, after ten years of managing JLP's customer direct marketing.

Jane is not new to politics. She has served as a local councillor on two separate occasions in the London Borough of Barnet where she lived before moving south of the river. Jane has stood for Parliament before; at the 2005 General Election she contested Pendle, reducing its Labour majority to the smallest in Lancashire.

Jane and other organisers after the Cavendish Singers’ fundraising concert at St Luke’s, Battersea

Having led various residents' associations herself over the years Jane knows the tireless effort and commitment put in by local voluntary groups. She served for many years as a housing association board member and is a school governor of Honeywell Junior and Infants School, Battersea. She is a member of the Battersea Society and a Friend of Battersea Park. Jane is a national trustee of the music charity Sing for Pleasure (SfP), having been seconded to SfP for six months in 2004. One of Jane's proudest achievements was co-founding and, for many years, organising the Mill Hill Music Festival and she sings with a chamber choir, The Cavendish Singers. Jane also enjoys country walking, which she finds relaxing, and being a season ticket holder at Tottenham Hotspur FC, which she finds character-building.

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