CHERNOBYL CHILDREN'S PROJECT (UK)

Registered charity 1059832 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CCP (UK), CHERNOBYL CHILDRENS PROJECT (UK)

We provide recuperative holidays in UK and Belarus; fund children's hospice care; deliver training in many aspects of child care; work with family associations supporting children with cancer, diabetes or disabilities; initiate projects to improve the social and educational opportunties for children and young people with disabilities.

Objects

1.TO PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES FOR PERSONS LIVING IN BELARUS,UKRAINE OR WESTERN RUSSIA WHO ARE SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER.2.TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER.

Area of benefit: BELARUS,UKRAINE OR WESTERN RUSSIA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: High Peak, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves fell to £21,226 from £64,971 the previous year, a reduction of £43,745. The trustees report that the charity is shrinking due to limited activities in Belarus and has no policy for setting aside reserves. The going concern basis is adopted based on reduced expenditure and partner funding from UNICEF.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 07/02/2025, 192 days after the 30/07/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chernobyl Children's Project (Uk) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Godel Technologies — “Since the beginning of 2015 this Manchester and Minsk based company has been giving us regular support to help fund Rodni Kut and our Home H…” (source page)
• The Persula Foundation — “We received a grant to fund a Sanatorium holiday for people from Duyanovka institution in a clean part of Belarus. Each year since then, the…” (source page)
• The BEARR Trust — “In 2014 The BEARR Trust gave us a grant to fund a project aimed at supporting struggling families and keeping children out of the Custodial …” (source page)
• Action For Disability — “But since 2013 the Trust has also been giving a generous donation to CCP every year to support our projects in Gomel Region.” (source page)
• The Toy Trust — “With grateful thanks also to the following organisations: The Toy Trust” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Hardwick
• CATHERINE MCELHOLM
• LYNNE CAROL MURPHY

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Belarus · Derbyshire · Gloucestershire · Solihull · Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHERNOBYL CHILDREN'S LIFELINE.

• CHERNOBYL CHILDREN'S LIFELINE income £351k
• THE CHERUBY TRUST income £207k
• KIDS CARE CHARITY income £8k
• CHERNOBYL CHILDREN (EAST MIDLANDS) income £56k
• Child Bereavement UK income £2.7m
• CHESTERHILL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £107k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.