Background
In 1989, an organisation known as Christmas Cracker was set up by Richard Wood on behalf of Tearfund and the Oasis Trust to inform and educate people about the poverty and suffering that were the everyday experience of thousands of those living in Third World countries. It challenged and encouraged members of various Christian bodies to show their concern in a practical manner by organising and working together with people from all faiths and none to raise money for humanitarian projects in the developing world. One of their most innovative fundraising ideas was that of 'Radio Cracker', a chain of radio stations that under a radio authority licence could broadcast for a maximum of 28 days during the period leading up to Christmas .
In 1991, there were 90 individual Radio Cracker RSL's, while in 1992, there were 83 stations, all broadcasting to their own communities across the UK. The numbers fell in later years as the organisation had moved on, the final one being Radio Cracker Ballymena which still broadcasts every December to the Mid Antrim area of Northern Ireland.
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