Speakers

Mary Rose Gunn is Founder and Chief Executive of The Fore and has been a pioneer in the grant-making space since 2012. The Fore is the only venture philanthropy fund in the UK dedicated to small charities. Mary Rose previously ran The Bulldog Trust and its public programmes at Two Temple Place, and prior to that, worked in politics and the media. She is Deputy Chair of INTBAU and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2018, she was named as one of the Pioneers Post’s 100 Women in Social Enterprise. From 2020 to 2022 she served as a Commissioner on the Law Family Commission on Civil Society chaired by Lord Gus O’Donnell for Pro Bono Economics.