Remember Chernobyl Working Group

Chernobyl, Belarus

 

 

After much hard work by three members of the Working Group we were delighted to see the Remember Chernobyl website go live at the end of last year. I hope you have already visited it at www.rememberchernobyl.org.

 

 

If you have still not sent us information about your charity, your contact details and your web address then please email me this information straightaway.

 

Can I remind all those who are already on the site that in return for including your charity’s details we would like you to hold one event during April under the Remember Chernobyl banner, publicising it with our publicity materials (details below) and raising money for the Belarusian Children’s Hospice. – we have already set up a special account for this money.

 

 

Events to mark the 20th anniversary

On the web site we will be including details of events marking the 20th Anniversary of the disaster taking place in April and throughout 2006.  We want to include events organised by individual charities as well those we organize jointly. Please email me details of your event in good time so we can put them on the site.

 

 

 

Schools’ Writing Competition

We hope to run a writing competition for schools, details of which will appear on the website soon.

 

 

Appeal for Research

We are asking people to sign a petition on the website calling for a fund, administered by the United Nations, to be established urgently and to undertake more research into the health effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster and in particular the damage caused by the long term presence of low-level radiation. The petition would be presented to the Secretary General of the UN in April 2006. You can print copies of the appeal form straight from the web site and we hope that all charities will encourage people in their area to sign it.

 

 

 

Leaflet

We are producing a high quality information leaflet for free distribution by our individual charities. It is intended to give the public and media an overview of the disaster, its effects on children in Belarus, the work of our charities and the “Remember Chernobyl” initiative with details of how people can get involved. There will also be space on the back of the leaflet for your charity’s name and contact details.

 

 

Copies of the leaflet will be available, for the price of the postage and packing, around the end of February 2006.  Please let us know by 19th January, at the latest, how many you would like.

 

 

Remember Chernobyl Merchandise

 

We are producing merchandise to help charities publicise the 20th anniversary. We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to raise awareness by using these very attractive items:  

 

 

Metal lapel badges with the words “Remember Chernobyl” inscribed on it (max. 40p each)

• Envelope labels/stickers bearing the Remember Chernobyl logo (approx 1.5p each)
• Car window stickers with the Remember Chernobyl logo (approx. 28p each)
• Lapel stickers (approx. 1p each) – ideal to give away at fundraising events, collections etc.
• Purple Ribbons (approx. 25p each)
• Wrist Bands (approx. 25p each)

 

 

Pens – we decided that it would be better if individual charities produced their own with the words ‘Remember Chernobyl’ and the website address on them

 

T shirts, sweatshirts, fleeces etc. The artwork for an embroidered logo will be set up by the Remember Chernobyl working Group to enable charities, organisations and individuals to order their own. Details will appear on the website.

 

 

We hope to have the merchandise available from about the end of February or early March. To gauge the quantities we need to produce please email me the number of leaflets, badges, envelope stickers, car stickers and lapel stickers you would like asap, and by January 19th at the very latest.

 

 

As you can see the Working Group has been hard at work on behalf of all UK and Irish charities to help raise awareness that 26th April 2006 is the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident and that the effects will be felt for many, many years. Working together we can raise funds to help the Belarusian Children’s Hospice expand its work and, of course, generate new members and new involvement for our individual charities

 

We look forward to hearing from you how much publicity merchandise you require.

 

Best wishes

Claire Chettoe

on behalf of the Remember Chernobyl Working Group