ONSIDE / INTERVIEW
The Footprints Foundation
Bob has been active in local communities since a very early age. Brought up in the North
of England, living on large estates, his parents owned and ran grocery stores. A daily after
school regime of order delivery, garden tending, fire lighting, errands and bringing in the
coal for home and neighbours prepared him for the life of a giver.
The needs of others were highlighted to Bob many years ago when organising a Christmas
food collection project in a large industrial organisation where he was employed. Bob was
inspired and moved by the care and commitment shown by the employees. Since then Bob’s
everyday working life and charity work have been inextricably linked and he continues to
commit a significant amount of his time to charity projects.
Bob has undertaken and supported many charitable activities, large and small, over the
years, including several walks of the Thames Path and Hadrian’s Wall, planting 10,000
trees through Global Trees in Scotland and Ecuador, supporting the 50th Anniversary of
the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and a wide range of others too numerous to list.
Bob is passionate about and deeply committed to helping those people with the most need,
both in the UK and abroad. In setting up The Footprints Foundation he has been able to
progress and expand his charitable activities for the benefit of many.
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