The hardship fund was set up for those staff working for the Bulls voluntarily after being made redundant to help them meet their financial commitments. The support for the academy has come from BullBuilder funds which has always been used to support the academy and is seperate from the hardship fund and is made up from things like membership fees.

I'll see if I can get a total raised so far from the finance guys, but I know they're a bit snowed under at the minute!

The funds for the academy team came directly from BullBuilder and not the hardship fund.

Just heard that so far over £2,500 has been raised for the hardship fund.

Can I please thank everyone who has contributed to the fund, and to Warrington for their magnificent gesture.

Also, if there is anyone out there who would like to make a contribution, you still can!

Hardship fund (helping staff made redundant): [urlhttp://www.bullbuilder.co.uk/Hardship.aspx[/url
BullBuilder (supporting academy and scholarship): [urlhttp://www.bullbuilder.co.uk/Join.aspx[/url

I assume the cash goes into the 'client account' not his own or his company's account!!
Both money to keep the show on the road and the hardship fund are vital for going forward, and the Wire donation is a superb gesture and well targetted.

Money is being paid directly to Bullbuilder, collected from the stadium (most will be cash) daily. They retain the 10% club commission.

Superb gesture by the Warrington club.

Of course, but I'm sure any administrator will be making sure he gets paid out of what comes in, whatever happens to the business he's trying to rescue.

I have just told you what is happening.

Another great gesture from one of the big clubs, this time going were it's deserved most!

It gets even better - even more generous from Warrington
They are send some seating tickets in the north stand end adjacent to the away supporters west stand.

After deduction of 10% the ticket prices, Bullbuiler should receive for each ticket:
Standing Adult.......... £16.65
Standing Concession.. £11.25
Seating Adult.............£23.85
Seating Concession.....£16.20

This really is a fantastic gesture by the Warrington club, and 100% of what they are donating will go to those in need.

To Warrington, I can only say











We have history of support from Warrington - when we set up Bullbuilder, we received considerable assistance and support from Roy Chicken and the Warrington supporters trust. Indeed, we based Bullbuilder very much on their model.

I suggest these sort of gestures, and what we saw with the pledge, show that there is a lot more mutual support within the game than sometimes we appreciate?

And they put the unpleasant postings on here of a small minority of nasty, bitter little people purporting to be supporters of certain other clubs into their proper context.

As we all brace ourselves for whatever more bad news there is in this farrago, the great thing about this is that the money is available, via Bullbuilder, to those who deserve it, whatever the news on the club itself may be. A brilliant idea and a fine gesture, thanks Wire.

Full marks to the Wolves, good luck to everyone at the Bulls

Thanks Wire, fantastic gesture. Can we encourage the same amount of support we had at Leeds and try to fill the away end

big thanks to all at the warrington wolves for this great gesture, making sure it bypasses the administrator and goes to the unpaid staff.

to the bullbuilder board members who have worked really hard behind the scenes to make this happen, the fans salute you !!

Absolutely wonderful offer from Warrington.

I bet Guilfoyle went mental when he heard about it - granted it won't be the same sort of money that the Leeds game would have generated, but even so, it could have been a nice little sum of free cash for him not to find.

Can I ask someone from Bullbuilder how this deal came about?
Good work to whoever did it.

All credit to the Wolves in this case - their idea, gratefully welcomed by BullBuilder. I believe their own Trust, Squadbuilder, probably had some role in promoting this. We have always had a good relationship with them and they have given us plenty of help and support, especially when first setting up.
For those interested, the BullBuilder comment is [url=http://www.bullbuilder.co.uk/NewsItem.aspx?GUID=920ce8e8-f733-422a-80ac-8bdb93280b90here[/url.

It needed both a willing and generous donor, and a vehicle already established and doing the business able to receive and apply the donation. We had both in the Warrington club and the Bullbuilder Hardship Fund. All it then took was a bit of liaison between members of the Bullbuilder board and Warrington and the Bulls ticket office, and sorting out the logistics.

totally different pal.

not really as the hardship fund that you have is done by bullbuilder which if i remember correctly used our squadbuilder as a model and we helped you set up bullbuilder

I do not see what point you are trying to make?

When we set up Bullbuilder, we had very welcome input and guidance from the Warrington Trust, and especially Roy Chicken. We modelled our objectives on what the Warrington trust does, although all the set-up and documentation was down to us.

In the same way, I gave those setting up the Wakefield trust the benefit of our own experience.

That is how it works in the supporters' trust movement.

The Hardship Fund was a Bullbuilder initiative.

i was just replying to someone who was saying bullbuilder and squadbuilder was totally different. Wasnt trying the we did this first thing.

Have debated all week whether to cut family holiday short and set off Monday instead of Friday so we can go to Wire.

The points deduction, and specifically the amazingly positive reaction from the players on twitter has made it a no-brainer.

See you there. COYB.

Another no brainer:
We debated and would probably not gone to this match until the offer was announced
Now we will be there. Cost of 2 tickets £36.00 is offset by £32.40 going to Bullbuilder.
What better way to make a contribution to them.

Got tickets for the Bulls Bus. £13 each is cheaper for 2 than the petrol and parking costs

I might have been remiss here in not accounting for the VAT that Warrington include in their ticket prices -which they have to pay to HMRC no matter how they use the money.
Expect then that their donations to Bullbuilder will be 17% approx less than first stated.