CHARITIES: Emma Nicholson MEP has been involved with founding two human rights charities – The Children’s High Level Group (CHLG) and the AMAR (Assisting Marsh Arabs and Refugees) International Charitable Foundation.

AMAR International Charitable Foundation (Assisting Marsh Arabs and Refugees)

“It is an Appeal which concentrates on getting help through to where it is needed for food, medicines, doctors and essential items of clothing and shelter”
HRH The Prince of Wales, November 1992
The AMAR Appeal was founded by Emma Nicholson MEP in 1992 after the war for the liberation of Kuwait and in response to the […]

The Children’s High Level Group (CHLG)

Working at a political and practical level to ensure that UN minimum standards for the care of children are implemented across the whole of Europe and beyond.
The Children’s High Level Group (CHLG) was founded in 2005 by author JK Rowling and MEP Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne. Its aim is to improve the welfare of […]

How the Children’s High Level Group allocated its funds

Press release, 1st November 2006

The funds raised in Romania and UK in 2006 were allocated as follows:

Community Nurses Initiative
The CHLG has agreed, in a matching partnership scheme with the Government, to sponsor the employment and training of 100 community nurses (making a total if 200 nurses altogether) in order to help implement part of the […]