[1] The daughter of publicans, Gulliver was born in Warneford Hospital in Leamington Spa, and started playing darts at the age of two at her parents pub in Southam, Warwickshire.

[3] During the 2008 tournament Trina stated on many occasions that she was not happy with the prize money and the game length compared to the men's competition.

Despite this she did not enter the inaugural (and thus so far only) PDC Women's World Championship in 2010, that offered higher prize money than the BDO version.

[3] In 2011 Gulliver defeated Wendy Weinstadtler, Irene Armstrong and Rhian Edwards all 2–0 to successfully defend the Women's World Championship.

[1] She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to darts and to charitable fundraising.

[11] Gulliver's mother Muriel died on 5 January 2012, two days before the start of the BDO World Darts Championship.