MEET OUR TEAM
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Linda Bull
Senior Events Co-ordinator
Lin is one of our longest serving members of the charity, and is dedicated to the core. Her role as Senior Events Co-ordinator has been very successful. Lin supervises and offers training to our fundraising team. Lin often arranges other fundraising events outside of work time, her commitment and devotion are second to none. Lin started fundraising for the charity in 2006. Lin has three children and a compliment of 15 grandchildren!
Pauline Arnold
Credit Control
Accounts/Support
Pauline has rejoined Crackerjacks team after a short period of retirment. Pauline has spent many years with Crackerjacks assisting with various administration duties. Her main role is to support the charity and our donors to assist with credit control to help our donors to be able to get funds raised to Crackerjacks. Pauline also supports her team through holiday periods and supports management with accounting procedures. We are very grateful to have pauline back onboard.
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Clare Granger
Events Co-ordinator
Clare has been with Crackerjacks since before the start of COVID, she is a strong and valid member of our team and gives her full commitment. Clare always remains positive in difficult situations and is quick and willing to adapt. Clare has a son and daughter and recently got married to her husband Paul
Congratulations Clare!
CORPORATE FUNDRAISING TEAM
TRUSTS & FOUNDATIONS
Rachel Chilvers
Trust & Foundations Fundraising Officer
Rachel has been fundraising for over two decades and is very successful in her efforts. Rachel has worked for many charities such as Radar, Momentum and
Ability Promotions where she has gained her experience and built a great rapport with her current client base. Rachel's efforts are endless, she is self motivated and works to a high professional standard. We are very grateful to have Rachel's support.
Amanda Hopkins
Trust & Foundations Fundraising Officer
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Amanda has worked for Crackerjacks for many years. She first started as an Events Co-ordinator and was very successful in her role. Amanda took an employment break from Crackerjacks, however she returned a year later in the position of Trust and Foundations officer. Amanda applies herself 100% to every opportunity and is a great asset to the charity. She also holds the role of Management support officer during holiday periods to ensure the charity holds stability during these times.
OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM
Terry Bull
Co-founder/CEO.
Terry Bull, a father of five daughters and grandfather of four, was born in East London in 1961. Terry relocated to Kidderminster, Worcestershire in 1994 due to work commitments, where he successfully managed two large car rental companies.
Terry has worked in the charity fundraising sector for the last 30 years, during which time he has gained a vast wealth of knowledge and expertise in his field, which he can offer and share with Crackerjacks and its trustees.
In 1997, Terry worked for eight years as an Area Manager for The Lennox Children’s Cancer Fund, a national children’s charity based in Halesowen, West Midlands. Terry headed the fundraising team and was responsible for raising vital funds to support young children with cancer.
In 2006, Terry became a Company Director where he formed and established a fundraising organisation called Feel Good Fundraising Limited. This organisation supported and worked alongside the national charity Momentum, a Brain Injury Centre in Birmingham. However, wanting to offer more in terms of supporting and funding children with disabilities, Feel Good Fundraising was dissolved, and Crackerjacks Children's Trust was born.
2011 Terry and John jointly formed Crackerjack’s Children’s Trust and became Co-founders. In this challenging new role, Terry's work allows him to oversee and administrate the running of the charity and its operations, and to work closely with the charity's families and support teams. He also offers help, support, and advice to the charity's beneficiaries and its Trustees, along with supplying outreach work. Terry is also a registered member of The Chartered Institute of Fundraisers.
In his spare time, Terry enjoys listening to classical music, spending time with family, his Grandchildren, and friends, and most recently, enjoying his new park home in the beautiful countryside of Shropshire with his wife, Lin.
John Bacon
Co-founder
Recently retired, John from East London was one of our co-founders, who has been involved in charity work since 2006, when he was a Company Director with Feel Good Fundraising Limited for six years. Feel Good supported and worked alongside the national charity, Momentum, a Brain Injury Centre located in Birmingham; however, wanting to offer more by supporting and funding children with disabilities, Feel Good Fundraising was dissolved, and Crackerjacks Children's Trust was formed.
In 2011, John and Terry achieved their ambitions to personally involve themselves in a children’s charity that would help children with disabilities. They founded Crackerjacks Children's Trust in March 2012. John's expertise in accounts and I.T., along with his management skills, became very useful to the charity's day-to-day running.
In March 2023, John retired and is very much missed, but he still remains Co-founder of Crackerjacks Children's Trust and shows his support where possible..
OUR PATRONS
CLAIRE CASHMORE MB- Paralympic Swimming Champion
& Our Patron
Claire was appointed our patron in December 2016.
Claire is a great ambassador for disability sport and Crackerjacks Children’s Trust. She regularly gives motivational talks to children and adults and inspires others in her work.
Claire is a Seasoned Paralympian, she attended the Rio 2016 Paralympics, her fourth and most successful games to date.
She entered the world stage at only 16 years old, qualifying for Athens 2004 and come home with two bronze medals. She brought home a bronze medal at the games in Beijing 2008, and a further two silvers and a bronze in London 2012. London 2012 saw a big boost in Claire’s profile as she was chosen to be one of the faces of Channel 4’s hugely successful Meet the Superhuman campaign – she was featured on billboards nationwide and in several adverts on Channel 4, speaking candidly about her disability. Claire’s performance in the pool at Rio 2016 was impressive. With experience, she won silver in the SB8 100m breaststroke and her first gold in the 4 x 100m medley relay.