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The Gale Foundation Trust

Helping Communities at Home & Abroad

The Gale Foundation Trust

Helping Communities Everywhere

Mission Christmas

Packing the toys for distribution

Comicon Event in Poole

Mission Christmas 2023

Free Football Coaching Sessions

Organised through the Kids Initiative 2021

Christmas 4 Kids

Roadshow at Julia's House - Dec 2019

Mission Christmas 2024

Collecting & Delivering Presents

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About Us

An Independent Charity Organisation based in BCP

The Gale Foundation Trust CIO, a grant making charity based in Bournemouth, Dorset, was founded by Richard Gale and his parents Edward and Kath in 2015. The objectives are broad and reflect the diverse causes close to their hearts.

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Our Causes

Our Supported Charities for 2026

Orangutan Appeal UK

Wildlife conservation was one of the founding core objectives when the GFT was founded back in 2015. One organsation in particular, Orangutan Appeal UK (OAUK), fits that brief perfectly as they work to protect the remaining wild populations of orangutans by supporting conservation projects in Borneo and raising global awareness of their plight.

Mission Christmas

MISSION CHRISTMAS Cash For Kids (CFK) is Bauer Media’s national charity which operates across 22 areas around the UK. The southern region, which the GFT supports, covers Dorset, Hants, West Sussex, Surrey and the IOW.

Waste Not Want Not

The GFT are pleased to announce the addition of PWNWN as one of our main, core charities going forward. Based in Poole High St, the charity operates a membership based supermarket helping those facing financial hardship the opportunity to shop at heavily discounted prices.

THE 2ND HELI APPEAL

Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance provides life-saving, pre-hospital critical care to those in urgent need across Dorset and Somerset. As your local air ambulance charity, we are a vital part of the community that relies on your support to be there for critically ill and injured people when every second counts.

Christmas For Kids

The GFT has been proudly supporting Christmas for Kids (C4K) since 2018. Prior to the Covid pandemic, C4K used to provide a live, interactive puppet show to all children’s hospices in the UK during the run up to Christmas. Employing 3 teams of 3 actors in each, these teams would tour the country taking their fun, sensory shows to children and their families who would otherwise not have such an opportunity.

Kids Initiative

The GFT has been the funding sponsor of Poole Town FC’s Kids Initiative (KI), a program set up to involve all children in the fun of football, especially those facing emotional, financial or physical hardship, since its inception in 2018.

Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

As one of Africa’s oldest wildlife charities and a leading conservation organisation, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (SWT) embraces all measures that complement the conservation, preservation and protection of wildlife.

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