Heather Nicholson

Heather Nicholson , also known as Heather James, is a British animal rights activist. She is best known for having cofounded three pivotal animal rights campaigns in the UK in the 1990s. In 1997, Consort Kennels in Hereford, which bred beagles for animaltesting labs, was closed after a tenmonth campaign led by Nicholson and her husband at the time, Greg Avery. In 1999, Save the Hill Grove Cats closed Hill Grove Farm in Oxfordshire, which bred cats for laboratories, after a twoyear campaign, also led by Nicholson and Avery. In the same year, Nicholson, Avery, and Natasha Dellemagne set up Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty with the aim of closing Huntingdon Life Sciences , a contract animaltesting company based in Cambridgeshire.

Nicholson was born in North Yorkshire and grew up in Killay, Swansea, the daughter of George Barwick, a teacher and vegan, and his wife, Shirley Barwick, ne Nicholson. She attended Olchfa Comprehensive School. A lifelong ovo vegetarian, then vegan, she spent time as a teenager working for the RSPCA in Singleton Park, Swansea, but left because she couldnt bear to see the animals euthanized. Her mother told the Western Mail She used to come home crying her eyes out because they had a policy then of putting down healthy dogs they could not find homes for.

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