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Khan and her family often support London-based charities by attending society parties in their aid. Like her sister-in-law Sheherazade Goldsmith, Khan regularly supports the Soil Association, an environmental charity and the HOPING foundation, which works with Palestinian refugee children. She is also a member of the children's charity, Chain of Hope.

Khan became a UK Ambassador for UNICEF in September 2001 and has been on field trips to Kenya, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. She has helped raise awareness about UNICEF's Breastfeeding Manifesto and End Child Exploitation campaign, including the issues of child trafficking and child labour. In 2001, she raised funds to help refugees of the Afghan civil war in Pakistan. She also participated, with her mother and sons, in two demonstrations outside Downing Street in November 2007 against the imposition of a state of emergency in Pakistan.

Khan has written columns about her experience in Pakistan for newspapers such as The Independent The Guardian and The Times. From 21 October 2007 to 27 January 2008, she contributed 11 opinion comments to The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
 
In 1998, Khan launched a non-profit clothing company that employed poor Pakistani women to embroider western clothes with delicate eastern handiwork, which were then sold under the label of Jemima Khan Designs in London and New York at outlets such as Mimi, The Cross, and Browns. Khan stated that all profits were donated to the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital.

At the end of 2001, after producing three collections, her fashion label was closed. In 2008, she modelled the relaunched Azzaro Courture fragrance and was a guest co-designer of a small accessories collection with Azzaro's Vanessa Seward.

As voted for by the readers of the Daily Telegraph, she was presented the Rover People's Award for the best dressed female celebrity at the 2001 British Fashion Awards. Khan was featured on Vanity Fair's Annual International Best-Dressed List in 2004, 2005 and 2007.