We are an Amnesty Local Group with members from Chester, Wrexham, and the surrounding area.  

We endeavour to put on several events each year - examples from 2025 below:

- Fundraising for Amnesty International via a Bag Pack at Morrisons superstore in Saltney on 25 Jan 2025 - we offered to pack shoppers' bags at the till and also collected at the store entrance.

- We plan to take a stall at Wrexham Pride on 26 Jul 2025 where we will engage with attendees and hand out Amnesty Chester & Wrexham wristbands and sweets as well as speaking to people about Amnesty's support of LGBTQ+ rights in the UK, Europe and beyond.

- We have booked a stall at Chester Pride on 16 Aug 2025 where, as with Wrexham Pride, we will engage with attendees and hand out Amnesty Chester & Wrexham wristbands and sweets as well as speaking to people about Amnesty's support of LGBTQ+ rights in the UK, Europe and beyond.

- Every year we take part in Amnesty's global Write for Rights campaign, writing letters of support to people around the world whose human rights are under threat. We also write to governments and officials, imploring them to ensure justice and freedom for those people. The provisional date for this year is 06 Dec 2025 at St Peter's Church at The Cross in the centre of Chester (postcode: CH1 2LA).

If you are an existing supporter of Amnesty and/or would like to learn more, please email us at amnestywrexhamchester@gmail.com - we would love you to get involved!

In addition, we meet in person at least 11 times per year, at 7.30pm on the second Tuesday of each month (except August). We meet at The Dog and Pickle pub, Chester Road, Lavister LL12 0DN.

About us

Here at Amnesty Chester and Wrexham Local Group - as with Amnesty International as a whole - we are ordinary people standing up for humanity, human rights and justice. Our purpose is to protect individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.

At Amnesty Chester and Wrexham Local Group we are fundamentally focussed on the below core principles of Amnesty International, namely:

• Supporting Individuals at Risk (including Prisoners of Conscience)
• Campaigning against the Death Penalty 
• Campaigning to Stop Torture 

In addition, we support the many Campaigns and Issues championed by Amnesty International UK.