Mary Rose Gunn

Mary Rose Gunn is Chief Executive of the Bulldog Trust. The Bulldog Trust have been working with C Hoare and Co’s foundation, the Golden Bottle Trust, since 2012 to help the most innovative, earlystage charities and social enterprises achieve their potential to lead social change by providing unrestricted development funding and strategic support. The project has achieved exceptional results and will be relaunched later this year as the Temple Place Partnership, providing selected boutique high-finance organisations with tailored opportunities to support and mentor the highest-quality social impact projects in the UK. The Bulldog Trust, a charitable trust established in 1983 offers financial and advisory assistance to charities. The Bulldog Trust works to encourage resourceful giving through initiatives to promote professional involvement in charity and donor support services. This includes a funding programme supporting the strategic development of early-stage charitable projects and the Engaging Experience network which has connected over 900 business people with charities in need of pro bono expertise since 2009. The trust is based at, and owns, Two Temple Place which supports and inspires many of its activities including the Winter Exhibition Programme – promoting museums and galleries around the UK through showcase exhibitions. From 2004 to 2006, Mary Rose worked in Parliament, concentrating most of her time on research into international development issues. Prior to that she worked in the media as a news producer for an entertainment channel and graduated with a degree in Modern History from Oxford University. She is a trustee of the Margaret Pyke Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.