Chernobyl Continuity was founded in 1998 in order to provide respite holidays for teenagers from Belarus who were still living with the after effects of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The majority of youngsters who participate in the charity’s programme are from orphanage backgrounds and most have spent many years in institutions. The charity offers a month long holiday, organises a comprehensive programme for the teenagers and is involved in awareness raising. Each year, the charity organises a poetry and prose competition and a YOUTH4YOUTH CONCERT, involving local children, on the basis of ‘young people in England helping the youth of Belarus’. We have been involved in training initiatives in Belarus and reciprocal training in England.