THE GAZETTE
The Gazette — 2023 New Year Honours
The London Gazette records Aneeta Prem’s appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours, for charitable service.
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Aneeta Prem MBE
An evidence-led record of public service, Parliament, speaking, education, media, safeguarding and patient advocacy — preserved so individual events and the wider body of work can both be found and verified.
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OFFICIAL RECORD
The record speaks for itself
Official and institutional sources are gathered here so key parts of Aneeta Prem’s public work can be read in their original context.
COURTS AND TRIBUNALS JUDICIARY
Judiciary — public service
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary included Aneeta Prem in its 2023 New Year Honours coverage, noting her work as a magistrate and through Freedom Charity.
View official record ↗10 DOWNING STREET
Points of Light
In November 2014, the Prime Minister’s Points of Light programme named Aneeta Prem its 148th recipient for her work to end forced marriage.
View official record ↗UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER
Honorary doctorate
The University of Winchester awarded Aneeta Prem an Honorary Doctor of Letters in 2015 in recognition of her public work.
View institutional record ↗PARLIAMENTARY RECORD
Parliamentary evidence on forced marriage
Aneeta Prem MBE with Baroness Morgan of Cotes, former Secretary of State for Education, and schoolchildren from Freedom Charity at the Houses of Parliament.
2013
Forced marriage and safeguarding — House of Commons
Aneeta Prem gave oral evidence to a House of Commons Public Bill Committee in 2013 in support of criminalising forced marriage, alongside prevention, education and practical safeguarding.
Open parliamentary record ↗2022
Freedom Charity — parliamentary submission
Freedom Charity’s 2022 submission is published in the UK Parliament committee record.
Open parliamentary record ↗THE PUBLIC RECORD
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A chronological record of verified speaking, parliamentary, educational, media and public-service work. Major moments are foregrounded; smaller engagements remain part of the record rather than disappearing.
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2006
Metropolitan Police Authority — public oversight
Contemporary Guardian reporting identifies Aneeta Prem as the Metropolitan Police Authority member with responsibility for Newham, providing independent evidence of her public-service and police-oversight role before Freedom Charity was founded.
The Guardian ↗2009
Freedom Charity — founding trust deed
The Charity Commission records Freedom Charity’s governing trust deed as dated 11 August 2009, establishing the charity’s formal foundation before later public launch milestones.
Charity Commission ↗2010
The Guardian — forced marriage and legal-aid protection
Aneeta Prem, identified with Freedom Charity, was among signatories warning that legal-aid changes could leave victims of forced marriage and so-called “honour”-based violence without adequate publicly funded representation.
The Guardian ↗2011
But It’s Not Fair — first publication
Bibliographic records date Aneeta Prem’s forced-marriage novel But It’s Not Fair to 2011, establishing the book before its later Parliamentary and education launches.
Bibliographic record ↗House of Lords — book and 24-hour helpline launch
A contemporary Swanlea School newsletter records the House of Lords launch of But It’s Not Fair and Freedom Charity’s 24-hour helpline, hosted by Lord Toby Harris and attended by Keith Vaz MP. Pupils discussed forced marriage with Aneeta Prem and were interviewed by BBC Asian Network.
Swanlea School newsletter (PDF) ↗2012
Skinners’ Academy — careers and public-speaking event
Contemporary school evidence records Aneeta Prem speaking at the academy on 27 September 2012.
Skinners’ Academy newsletter ↗Parliamentary book and helpline presentation
Contemporary press evidence records a Parliamentary presentation of But It’s Not Fair and Freedom’s helpline in April 2012.
Evening Standard ↗ITV Daybreak — forced marriage
The forensic archive retains a dated ITV Daybreak appearance on forced marriage and the Stay Safe message.
Media archive ↗Archive-supportedBBC World News — Delhi gang-rape commentary
Freedom’s archive records Aneeta Prem contributing to BBC World News coverage following the Delhi gang rape.
Media archive ↗Archive-supported
2013
Freedom safeguarding app — national launch
Freedom launched its safeguarding app with Forced Marriage Unit and Metropolitan Police involvement; GOV.UK records the FMU’s part-funding and quotes Aneeta Prem.
GOV.UK ↗
City Hall — International Women’s Day speaker
Spoke at Rotary London’s International Women’s Day event at City Hall alongside International Development Secretary Justine Greening and other speakers, addressing forced marriage and women’s rights.
Evening Standard ↗House of Commons — oral evidence
Formal evidence on forced marriage, education, prevention and practical safeguarding.
UK Parliament ↗Capita national conference — Chair
Chaired Capita’s national conference on honour-based violence and forced marriage in Central London, with speakers from the Home Office, Forced Marriage Unit, CPS and police.
Conference record ↗Al Jazeera — summer forced-marriage risk
Interviewed by Al Jazeera on the heightened risk of forced marriage during the summer holidays and the safeguarding challenge when young people are taken overseas.
Al Jazeera ↗ITV — Forced to Marry
Freedom helped make the documentary; later reporting linked the programme to a safeguarding contact that preceded the South London domestic-servitude rescue.
The Guardian timeline ↗National media — domestic-servitude rescue
National breaking-news coverage included Aneeta Prem speaking about Freedom’s safeguarding role in the South London domestic-servitude case.
The Guardian ↗Mayor of London meeting
The Greater London Authority’s published mayoral diary records a meeting with Aneeta Prem in the Mayor’s Office on 26 November 2013.
London City Hall — mayoral diary ↗The Guardian — Freedom profile
In a national profile, Aneeta Prem described Freedom’s work in school assemblies and with teachers, university students and police, alongside its safeguarding response to the South London domestic-servitude case.
The Guardian ↗2014
University of Winchester — social-work masterclass
British Federation of Women Graduates records Aneeta Prem being invited to address social-work students and guests on forced marriage; the exact event date remains controlled in the evidence archive.
BFWG record ↗The Independent — forced marriage interview
The Independent published a video interview with Aneeta Prem of Freedom Charity discussing the culture and circumstances in which forced marriage persists.
The Independent ↗Independent on Sunday — Happy List
The Independent on Sunday included Aneeta Prem in its 2014 Happy List for anti-slavery and human-rights work, profiling Freedom Charity and her role in helping establish contact with women held in domestic servitude.
The Independent ↗#Freedom2Choose — Sky News records Home Secretary participation
On the eve of criminalisation, Sky News reported that Home Secretary Theresa May joined Freedom Charity, police, the Crown Prosecution Service and a forced-marriage survivor in Freedom’s #Freedom2Choose campaign film. The report also quotes Aneeta Prem.
Sky News ↗Forced marriage criminalisation — Government quotes Aneeta Prem
When forced marriage became a criminal offence on 16 June 2014, GOV.UK published Aneeta Prem’s response to the change. The law itself is national policy and is not presented here as a personal achievement.
GOV.UK forced-marriage guidance ↗UK Girl Summit campaign — government charter
The UK Government’s Girl Summit Charter lists Aneeta Prem among its individual signatories, placing her in the international campaign to end FGM and child, early and forced marriage.
GOV.UK Girl Summit record ↗Prime Minister’s Points of Light
Official Government recognition for work to end forced marriage.
GOV.UK ↗Leyton Sixth Form College — forced-marriage session
Recovered partner evidence records a student safeguarding session.
Halo Project record ↗2015
BBC Radio 4 — Woman’s Hour
Broadcaster programme material records a forced-marriage discussion with Aneeta Prem.
BBC Radio 4 programme ↗University of Winchester — Honorary Doctor of Letters
The University recognised Aneeta Prem’s public work and later recorded a special masterclass on dishonour-based crime.
University record ↗Forced Marriage Unit — education resource recognised
GOV.UK guidance added But It’s Not Fair to the Forced Marriage Unit’s public resource material.
GOV.UK ↗2016
Eastern Eye — forced-marriage interview
Eastern Eye interviewed Aneeta Prem about forced marriages conducted through Skype, including safeguarding cases involving children and young people.
Eastern Eye ↗Cut Flowers — Parliamentary launch period
The FGM safeguarding novel entered its Parliamentary and public launch phase, with education and speaking activity around prevention and child protection.
Photographic launch archive ↗Primary archive
2017
University of Winchester — special masterclass
In its February 2017 profile, the University of Winchester states that Aneeta Prem had recently delivered a special masterclass on dishonour-based crime and had donated more than 47,000 copies of But It’s Not Fair to schoolchildren in the UK. The exact masterclass date remains to be recovered.
University of Winchester ↗Norwich Cathedral — International Women’s Day keynote
Delivered the International Women’s Day keynote at Norwich Cathedral on forced marriage and FGM, recorded by the Diocese of Norwich.
Diocese of Norwich magazine (PDF) ↗2018
Freedom Charity — House of Lords River Room event
Official Parliamentary venue statistics record a Freedom Charity event sponsored by Baroness Hayman in the House of Lords River Room on 7 March 2018.
UK Parliament venue record (PDF) ↗House of Lords — education reach recorded in Hansard
Baroness Hayman gave an independent Parliamentary snapshot of Freedom visiting 120 schools in six years.
Hansard ↗2019
House of Commons — International Women’s Day event
Organised by Nicky Morgan; the following day’s Commons debate records MPs meeting Freedom representatives, while a school record documents pupils speaking at the event.
Hansard ↗2020
Public campaigning — virginity testing and hymenoplasty
Freedom’s 2020 public record documents campaigning against virginity testing and hymenoplasty, including calls for legislation to prohibit both practices.
Charity Commission annual report ↗2021
Oxford Union — full address and Q&A
The Oxford Union published Aneeta Prem’s full address and Q&A on human rights, forced marriage, FGM and Freedom Charity’s work.
Oxford Union video ↗
2022
Public Policy Exchange — forced marriage key speaker
Preventing Forced Marriage: Improving Outcomes and Strengthening Legislative Protection.
Public Policy Exchange ↗Soroptimist regional meeting — University of Essex venue
Soroptimist records Aneeta Prem as speaker at its June 2022 regional meeting, highlighting her work on FGM and forced marriage; the event was held at the University of Essex.
Soroptimist record ↗Freedom Charity — Langdon Park School safeguarding day
Freedom Charity was one of the facilitators at the school’s “Being Safe” day, including an FGM safeguarding session.
Langdon Park School ↗Global Sustainable Development Congress — Glasgow
Times Higher Education records Aneeta Prem MBE speaking at the 2022 Global Sustainable Development Congress in Glasgow on girls’ education, forced and early marriage, FGM and women’s inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals. Its report also records her stating that Freedom Charity had engaged more than 75,000 schoolchildren across the UK by that point.
Times Higher Education ↗
2023
Member of the Order of the British Empire
Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for charitable service.
The Gazette ↗Judiciary — serving magistrate
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary records Aneeta Prem as a serving magistrate in Adult, Youth and Family Courts in East London, providing an official public-service record alongside its 2023 honours coverage.
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary ↗Women and Equalities Committee — evidence published
UK Parliament published Freedom Charity’s written evidence, creating a formal record of its policy recommendations and “Dishonour Abuse” terminology.
UK Parliament ↗The Neurological Alliance — trustee appointment
The Charity Commission records Aneeta Prem MBE JP as appointed a trustee of The Neurological Alliance on 22 November 2023, adding an independently verifiable national neurological-governance role to her patient-advocacy record.
Charity Commission ↗2024
Public Policy Exchange — forced marriage key speaker
Preventing Forced Marriage: Supporting the Vulnerable, Engaging with Key Communities and Enforcing the Law.
Public Policy Exchange ↗Public Policy Exchange — FGM key speaker
Protecting Women & Girls in the UK from Female Genital Mutilation.
Public Policy Exchange ↗2025
House of Lords — “Dishonour Abuse” language raised
Hansard records Freedom’s argument that there is no honour in abuse and that shame should attach to perpetrators.
Hansard ↗2026
House of Lords — Freedom campaign explicitly identified
A Lords debate explicitly identifies Freedom’s campaign to replace “honour abuse” terminology with “Dishonour Abuse”.
Hansard ↗National Diversity Awards 2026 — Freedom Charity shortlisted
Freedom Charity, co-founded by Aneeta Prem MBE, was shortlisted in the Community Organisation — Gender category for the 2026 National Diversity Awards.
National Diversity Awards official list ↗Picker Experience Network Awards — patient-voice finalist
TNA UK’s “Giving a Voice to People Living with Trigeminal Neuralgia and Facial Pain – Aneeta Prem MBE” was named a finalist in the 2026 Picker Experience Network Awards.
Picker finalist record ↗HOW THE ARCHIVE WORKS
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AREAS OF PUBLIC WORK
Areas of work
Human rights & safeguarding
Safeguarding work centred on prevention, consent, child protection, safety and what happens when someone asks for help.
Human rights and safeguarding →Books & education
Books and educational resources that open conversations about forced marriage, FGM, consent, coercion and safety.
Books and education →Trigeminal neuralgia & patient voice
Work informed by lived experience of trigeminal neuralgia, charity leadership and the importance of patient evidence in care and policy.
Trigeminal neuralgia and patient voice →Media & speaking
Broadcast, interview and speaking work on safeguarding, human rights, forced marriage, FGM and trigeminal neuralgia.
Media and speaking →
ACADEMIC RECOGNITION
University of Winchester
The University of Winchester awarded Aneeta Prem an Honorary Doctor of Letters in 2015 in recognition of her public work.
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Current leadership roles
SELECTED MEDIA
Broadcast and speaking
A small selection of broadcast and speaking work. The fuller archive is kept separately.
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Records held by public and independent institutions
The GazetteOfficial honours record ↗Courts and Tribunals JudiciaryNew Year Honours record ↗UK ParliamentOral evidence ↗10 Downing StreetPoints of Light ↗University of WinchesterHonorary doctorate record ↗The Neurological AllianceTrustee record ↗Learn About BritainCo-chair record ↗Charity CommissionFreedom Charity governing document ↗Picker2026 finalist record ↗PSHE AssociationForced marriage and FGM lesson packs ↗
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This is a selected public record, not a complete biography. Last reviewed 3 September 2026.