Clair Challenor-Chadwick

Experience

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  Haines Watts

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

  Senior Administrator

  Executive PA to Senior Partner

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  Evolution

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2001

  Marketing Analyst

  Marketing and Internal Communications

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  Cater Allen Bank

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  Marketing and Sales

  Marketing and Sales Support

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  TK Maxx

  Sept 2001 - Aug 2002

  Corporate Communications

  Reporting to the Director of Marketing, I oversaw the re-launch of the TK Maxx website, liaised with their US Head office on legal issues and ran the internal communication function for 7,000 staff in the UK. I also oversaw their corporate social responsibility remit and managed staff charity fundraising for NCH.

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  Action for Children

  Sept 2002 - Apr 2008

  Marketing Manager

  Action for Children (formerly NCH) is a national children’s charity with 7,000 staff and 500 children’s projects. In this role I designed new services to match Local Authority agendas, compiled and executed tenders, presented to Local Authorities and co-ordinated the team responsible for growing the size of NCH’s North East and Yorkshire and Humber region by 30%, creating the most successful NCH region out of six regions nationwide. All tenders reflected the importance of outcomes for children, true cost recovery and safeguarding. Tenders were compiled with staffing schedules and budgets.Part of my role involved reporting key performance indicators on operational performance and safeguarding both regionally and nationally to the Board. I also wrote charity policies including the national NCH Contract and Tendering Manual. My role involved frequent travel across the UK. Show less

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  Yorkshire Cancer Research

  Apr 2008 - Sept 2010

  Head of Marketing and Fundraising

  Responsible for raising up to £6 million per year for cancer research at Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York universities and teaching hospitals.

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  Cause UK

  Sept 2010 - now

  Clair Challenor-Chadwick, Managing Director

  Broadcast. print and digital Public Relations specialists for ethical businesses and good causes.

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  Veteran's Artisan Bakery

  May 2013 - Sept 2016

  Director

  Founding member and chief fundraiser for the Veterans' Artisan Bakery, a social enterprise supporting vulnerable veterans back to work and adapting to life on civvy street. Working with Ann Challenor-Chadwick via our company Cause UK we maximise media coverage and profile for the bakery as well as fundraising opportunities and entrepreneurial commercial projects. Cause UK not only did PR for the Veterans Artisan Bakery CIC, but raised funds to establish and launch the bakery in 2012, recruiting celebrity chef Marco Pierre White in a Yorkshire Post campaign. The Veterans Bakery is a therapeutic bakery for former military personnel at risk of homelessness, PTSD and addiction.Media coverage has included the Wall Street Journal, BBC radio York, Yorkshire Post, Forces TV, BBC Online, BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme, BBC Inside Out, Yorkshire Life, Inside Housing magazine, The Big Issue, and many more.We then achieved chef Rosemary Shrager as a patron who appeared on various quiz shows (Tipping Point, Celebrity Antiques Road Show, Catchphrase) raising funds and profile for the project.The impact has been huge; the bakery has been approached by numerous documentary film-makers and journalists and attracted further funding and support from big business. The team were invited to a Remembrance Day event at the Cabinet Office. Go to www.veteransbakery.comWe can help raise money and profile for your social enterprise, contact clair@causeuk.com, www.causeuk.com, 07531948014 Show less

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  Yorkshire Brain Research Centre

  Jul 2013 - Oct 2014

  Appeal Director

  I was the Appeal Director tasked with raising £2m within 2 years to create a Yorkshire Brain Research Centre at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

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  Institute of Directors

  May 2015 - Jan 2017

  Associate

  I am a member of the IOD's 99 Club and join 98 entrepreneurs who are running businesses across the UK in a wide variety of sectors.In 2014 I won the Yorkshire and Humber IOD Director of the Year for the Public/Not for Profit Sector.

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  Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra

  Jul 2021 - now

  Special Advisor to The Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra

  Cause UK launched the reformed YSO to national media, including the Times, Guardian and BBC Radio 4 and secured Alan Bennett as Honorary Patron.It’s a real delight to be working with such a talented group of people and help provide a cultural voice for Yorkshire and the North.

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  The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)

  Oct 2023 - now

  I am working part-time for the RSA in London to secure new funding partnerships with businesses, foundations and trusts to deliver a programme of work across the UK to benefit people and the planet. Proud Fellow and RSA Blogger

  • Senior Trusts and Foundations Manager

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Fellow

    Oct 2023 - now