Autumn 2010
The Bulldog Trust is a charitable trust that
has given financial and advisory assistance
to charities for over 25 years. Intrinsic to its
major donations is the ethos of making a real
difference to the organisations it helps. Bulldog
further embraces the spirit of resourceful
giving through initiatives to encourage and
inspire others into philanthropy. The Trust’s
headquarters are at 2 Temple Place on the
Embankment in London.
Recent News
William Morris Exhibition at
2 Temple Place in October 2011
Philanthropy Network goes
from strength to strength
Charities and Friends benefit
from the Bulldog Donor Funds
‘The Capital’s Greatest
Architectural Showcase’
Encouraging Charity
Efficiency
Charity Case Studies
Dance United (Cover Image)
Blues in Schools
War Child
London Centre for
Contemporary Music
Bulldog Portrait Bursary
News: William Morris Exhibition
at 2 Temple Place in October 2011
Charity Case Study:
Dance United
News: ‘The Capital’s Greatest
Architectural Showcase’
News: Encouraging
Charity Efficiency
Charity Case Study:
War Child
The voluntary sector in the UK accounts
for over £41 billion. That means if just
1% could be made in efficiency savings, it
would be the equivalent of 410 extra annual
donations of £1 million. The Coalition for
Efficiency - brainchild of Brian Smouha,
Bulldog trustee and founder Chair of
Guidestar UK - intends to help charities
achieve such savings.
Bulldog is looking forward to an exciting
three year relationship with the awardwinning, youth contemporary dance
company, Dance United.
Dance United believes that dance has the
power to change lives and runs rehabilitation
programmes devised for young offenders.
Through dance, the programmes offer young
people the opportunity to see themselves as
achievers rather than offenders, and to start
to fulfil their real potential. NPC has praised
Dance United as one of the most cost effective
youth offending programmes in the country.
It is estimated that by stopping even one
person reoffending, the charity saves the
public purse about £82,000.
The Bulldog Trust is delighted to
announce that 2 Temple Place will
be opening to the public as a gallery
space in autumn 2011.
The Trust is very pleased to be advised on
this project by one of the country’s experts
on regional collections - David Barrie OBE,
former Chief Executive of The Art Fund.
The first exhibition will be a collaboration
with the William Morris Gallery, Waltham
Forest. WMG is home to one of the world’s
most comprehensive collections of Morris’
work. Bulldog is extremely excited to be
able to work with them on a profile raising
exhibition in 2011 while the Waltham
Forest gallery is closed for refurbishment.
2 Temple Place Ltd will continue to run its
essential and well-established corporate
entertainment business to generate income
for the Trust and fund the upkeep of the
building.
“You can’t change it [your past] cause it’s
already done, so....I got a new start in life
now. I’m a changed person now. Comin’
here, it felt like I could start again, like it
didn’t matter what I done or where I come
from.” — Bradford Academy Participant
Charity Case Study: London Centre
for Contemporary Music
The Morris collection, owned by Waltham
Forest Council, is our ideal partner for the
launch of 2 Temple Place as a central London
showcase devoted to art from regional
museums and galleries. Annual exhibitions to
raise the awareness of other hidden gems are
planned for the future, with 2 Temple Place
set to become a staple on the tourist trail.
Running alongside the gallery will be a
series of evening events including concerts,
readings, lectures and receptions to
compliment both the exhibitions and
the Trust’s own charitable purposes.
Bulldog have invited Dance United to put
together a showcase event for 2 Temple Place
in 2012 to highlight their most recent talent.
London is world renowned for its £billion
contemporary music industry. The highly
acclaimed LCCM was one of the first schools
to recognise that to maintain this reputation,
London’s musicians must be given the skills to
compete with the best: playing an instrument
well is no longer enough. LCCM is London’s
leading school for the study of contemporary
music, preparing students for the complex
and competitive world of modern music.
Bulldog will be supporting the not-for-profit
company for five years.
William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest
2 Temple Place is open to the public on
Sunday 19th September 2010. As a precursor
to the major plans for autumn 2011, the
Trust was delighted to be chosen to take
part in Open House London, ‘the capital’s
greatest architectural showcase’. As one
of the hundreds of London venues normally
closed to the public, we are opening our
doors, free of charge, for a series of tours
of the attractive late-Victorian interior.
Tours sold out well in advance and the
interest bodes well for October 2011...
Unlike commercial enterprises where
success is attached to profit, charities often
find it hard to define their achievements.
The Coalition for Efficiency will encourage
charitable organisations to measure their
outcomes as a way to monitor quality
and quantity.
Through mapping, commissioning research
and bringing together organisations already
at work improving efficiency in the sector,
the CfE believes it will be able to create
a sea-change in charity operations.
CfE is chaired by Anthea Case, former
Chief Executive of the National Heritage
Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund.
Bulldog trustees Brian Smouha and Patrick
Burgess are both trustees of CfE while
Bulldog is also contributing resources to
the project with Mary Rose Gunn serving
as Company Secretary.
As part of a four year agreement, Bulldog is
delighted to have been able to support the
international children’s charity, War Child.
War Child works to protect children living
in the world’s most dangerous war zones.
The charity concentrates on reintegrating
child soldiers with their families; getting
children forced them to leave home by
war, off the streets; ensuring children
are separated from adults in prison and
rebuilding schools destroyed by war.
The charity currently works in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Uganda and D.R.Congo.
News: Philanthropy Network goes
from strength to strength
In December 2009 Dame Stephanie
Shirley launched the Engaging Experience
Philanthropy Network. As the UK’s
Ambassador for Philanthropy, Dame Steve
was the ideal figure to endorse Bulldog’s
initiative to strengthen the links between
the private, public and charity sectors by
enabling busy professionals to offer some
of their time and skills to charity.
Turn-out was over 100% for the launch
as people flocked to 2 Temple place for
charitable inspiration and a post-work
drink. The Trust has since been working
hard to channel members’ ideas and
philanthropic leanings into projects that
interest them. Members continue to be
put in touch with organisations looking
for skilled help and experience both
directly by Bulldog, and through more
formal intermediary organisations such
as Pilotlight, Reach Skills and Trustees
Unlimited. Bulldog circulates information
on these opportunities through its website
and regular email contact, and works with
both sides to make the most suitable matches.
Numerous members have been partnered
up with charities or causes. From a trustee
appointed to an African medical charity,
to a private equity executive offering
structuring and fundraising support to a
large environmental charity, to a member
providing strategic help to an inner city youth
group, enthusiasm remains extremely high.
High profile speakers have included Tutu
Agyare, hedgefunder and founder of the
Ghanaian Nubuke Foudation; recruitment
expert and founder of Silverhawk Partners,
Shirley Soskin and David McDonough OBE
communications advisor to governments,
business and international charities alike.
Bulldog would like to thank Liberty
International Plc for their generous support
of the network in 2010. Plans are now being
made to look for a permanent long- term
corporate sponsor.
Dame Stephanie Shirley (by kind permission of Phil Sayer)
Charity Case Study:
Bulldog Portrait Bursary
Charity Case Study:
Blues in Schools
Bulldog continues to support the excellent
work of Blues in Schools. BIS is a pioneering
educational charity run by professional chefs
that changes children’s lives by teaching them
how to cook and eat healthily. The project
works specifically with children who have
special needs, from severe behavioural, social
and emotional difficulties to autism and
Down’s syndrome.
BIS equips children with the skills, knowledge
and confidence to make informed choices
about what they eat, offering a lasting positive
impact on their health and their family’s
economic well-being. Meanwhile the fast and
successful results that the children achieve
in the kitchen, boost their self-esteem and
give them a more positive attitude to learning.
Blues in Schools are expanding the reach
of their programme with an exciting
collaboration with Kids Company, at their
Urban Academy in south London. This project
has huge potential as there are currently 1,500
children making use of the Kids Company
facilities.
Bulldog continues to support the Royal
Society of Portrait Painters with its bursary
for an up-and-coming portrait artist. The
Bulldog Portrait Bursary was established
to develop the talent of an artist at an early
stage in their career. As well as financial
support, it provides the invaluable
opportunity for an artist to be mentored
by Members of the Royal Society of Portrait
Painters.
News: Charities and Friends benefit
from the Bulldog Donor Funds
The Bulldog Trust:
Contact Information
Last year the Trust launched the innovative
Bulldog Donor Fund service to promote and
simplify giving for major donors. Favourably
discussed in the FT Wealth magazine in
October 2009, we continue to assist a select
number of donors with their giving.
The Funds were established to help those who
have decided against setting up a charitable
trust but for whom a charity bank account
does not offer enough personal support. It is
a no-fee, bespoke, financially-incentivised
service, for friends of Bulldog, to provide
them with the opportunity to make more
of their donations. Donors are encouraged
to take advantage of the fully tax-efficient,
administration-free way of giving, as well
as of the access to all the experience and
knowledge the Trust has built up over
the years.
In exchange for their initial donation,
fund holders are allocated an annual
sum to distribute to causes of their choice,
“I am extremely grateful to everyone
involved in awarding The Bulldog Bursary. calculated in the style of an annuity, as a
I believe that the Bulldog bursary will give percentage of their original donation. The
me the chance to fully develop my language trustees’ generous offer of 6% return on
maximised donations for the first £5m
as a portrait painter as I will have the
accepted has spurred many into action,
opportunity to paint consistently from life
and to experiment in terms of scale, subject, leaving our donors with only one decision
composition and materials.” – Winner of the – which charities to help.
2010 bursary, Clara Drummond
The Bulldog Trust
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Registered Charity No. 1123081
Bulldog Trustees
Patrick Burgess MBE, Chairman of
Trustees; Richard Q Hoare OBE, Founder
Trustee; Dame Mary Fagan DCVO,
Trustee; Charles Hoare, Trustee; Martin
Riley, Trustee; Brian Smouha, Trustee