Baroness Garden Peer

Address:
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW

BIOGRAPHY

Sue Garden was born in London and read Modern Languages at St Hilda’s College Oxford.

On graduating, she married a fellow student (the late Lord Tim Garden) and moved over twenty times during his RAF career. She was a teacher in England and Germany, was a volunteer with the Citizens’ Advice Bureaux and a welfare counsellor.  Settling in London, she joined City & Guilds to work on vocational qualifications and she now acts as a consultant for the Institute.

She is actively involved with many educational and charitable organisations, is on the Court of the World Traders’ Livery Company, a trustee of the Oxford University Society and President of the OUS London branch, and a volunteer caseworker for SSAFA Forces Help.  She was a candidate in the Camden local elections in 2002 and served on Hampstead Town Committee.  She was the candidate in Finchley and Golders Green in the 2005 general election.