Who We Are
Full Time Staff
Katie Meyerhoff - Community Development Co-Ordinator
Katie is a product of volunteering at the club and of the University of Leeds- Trinity & All Saints campus, and first started with the Bulls back in 2005. She progressed quickly to a part-time position, finally securing her full time position with the team in 2007 through her hard-work and dedication. Hosting experience from working with both Hull FC and Warrington Wolves through volunteer placements, Katie went on to complete her BA in Sports Development and P.E in 2008 alongside her full-time work commitments.
Katie's role is all encompassing, and involves the co-ordination of all of the Bulls Foundation's activity.
Carl Cawood - B-Active Co-Ordinator
Carl is another product of both volunteering with the team and of the University of Leeds- Trinity & All Saints campus, where he studied and subsequently acheived his Bsc Sport & Exercise with Psychology. He became involved with the team in 2006 through a voluntary work placement and having continued to volunteer throughout the course of his study, was offered his full time position in 2008 upon completion of his degree.
Carl heads up the Youth Offending Team's project in assosciation with the Bulls Foundation, which engages young people between 13-19 who are at risk of, or have been, excluded from school or offended, in positive activities in the hope of assisting their development and re-engaging them.
Volunteers
The Bradford Bulls Foundation see's the role of volunteers as essential to its function as a community organisation and as such maximise the use, skills and effectiveness of all its volunteers.
John Mason - Foundation Trustee & Secretary
John has been a fan of the Club since the age of six, having attended his first matches to watch Bradford Northern with his father in the early 1950’s.
John's role as Youth and Schools Liaison Officer for West Yorkshire Police sparked his involvement with the club's Community Department at the start of this decade, and on the inception of the Bradford Bulls Foundation in 2004 John was appointed as a Trustee for the Charity.
On retirement in 2005, John's active volunteering commenced, with him currently still serving the Foundation as Trustee. His volunteer activities have covered a number of highly successful community activities, most notably a lead involvement in the charities Heritage Lottery Bid.
Martin Bass - Heritage Officer
John Downes - Heritage Officer
We also have a group of Junior Volunteers, who assist in various Community Activities such as our Holiday and Matchday provision.
These Include; James Bell, Sarah Bennison, Laura Brayshay, Jamie Bussey, Fern Richardson, and Luke Pearson.
Barry Garner - Obituary (17.10.32- 20.01.09)
Barry Garner was a life long supporter of Bradford Northern and Bradford Bulls having been brought by his father to Odsal as a small boy.
Barry had an interesting working career which took him all around the world and he lived for periods of time in Malaysia, Sweden and Belgium. He returned to Britain in the early 1980s and resumed his close association with Northern and subsequently became a shareholder in the club.
As Barry reached the end of his working life both he and Super League arrived at Odsal. Northern became the Bulls and Barry became a volunteer at the club and started a new phase of his involvement in the club.
Barry's contribution to the Bulls since the late 1990's was enormous. He dedicated a large portion of his free time working along side colleagues in the Community Department and particularly delighted in working with young people. His flare for figures came in to its own and he became the back stop on which everyone relied when preparing bids for funding or just maintaining statistics for the Department.
Latterly, Barry continued to be an active volunteer and was honoured with the award of ‘Volunteer of the Year' by the Foundation in 2008, an award that was renamed the 'Barry Garner Volunteer of the Year' posthumously.