Operating since 1983, the Bulldog Trust has donated more than £3m to a range of charities and in recent years has made grants totalling around £200,000 annually. The Trust aims to support charity in ways which ensure that smaller donations provide maximum benefit. In the past we have pledged to start match funding campaigns; offered interest-free loans to tide charities through cash-flow crises; funded innovative pilot projects that could not access funding elsewhere and facilitated scholarships and bursaries in fields that we believed were being overlooked. The trustees have supported charities as diverse as HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust), the Prince’s Trust and the University of Winchester.
Bulldog also runs two separately administered, smaller educational grants funds. The Bulldog Arts Fund offers grants to innovative and interesting arts projects. The Bulldog Educational Grants Fund makes small grants towards special educational needs.
The Bulldog Trust regrets it is unable to acknowledge unsolicited applications.
The National Playing Fields Association were watching in despair as Welsh rugby pitches were sold off in the 1990s. Their London office simply didn’t have the resources to help so the Trust set them a challenge: Bulldog pledged £10,000 to start a Welsh office if they could find nine others to match it.