The Roberts Foundation's Half-Centenary

This year the Roberts Foundation is proud to celebrate half a century of charitable giving to Job’s pensioners and their families. Set up by HA Roberts and his two sons, Douglas and Alan, on 28 January 1958, it has been distributing money and providing accommodation for several hundred people over the past fifty years. As well as the original three Roberts settlors, the first trustees included Ted Bradnam, John Bishop and Roy Culver.

The Roberts Foundation currently provides low-cost accommodation at Louisa Court in Twickenham, and also provides cash grants and Christmas gifts to retired ex-employees of Job’s Dairy and their families. This year, to mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Foundation, those receiving a Christmas box will be given an extra £50.

The current Trustees, five of whom are members of the Roberts family, are its Chairman, Simon Roberts, Susan Gregory (nee Roberts), Tony G.N. Meredith, Andrew Roberts, Eliot Roberts, Robert Culver, Neville T.N. Grose and Andrew R. Whitton, who was a witness to the original founding document.

Louisa Court – named after H.A. Roberts’s mother, Louisa Job – is an apartment block of fourteen attractive flats built by the Foundation in 1966 and housed in its own landscaped grounds. Accommodation is arranged on very reasonable rental terms, and anyone interesting in being put on the waiting list should contact Simon Roberts, but it should be noted that Louisa Court is not a specialist complex, sheltered accommodation or nursing home, and is thus not specially equipped for those in need of special assistance.

Looking forward, the Roberts Foundation is committed to continuing to help take care of those who may have need of assistance and who helped to make HA Job Ltd such a happy and successful company.

For anyone seeking more information, contact should be made with:

                   Simon Roberts
                   The Roberts Foundation
                   Long Orchard Farm
                   Portsmouth Road
                   Cobham
                   KT11 1EL

                   Telephone: 01932 868685
                   E-mail: tinos96@yahoo.com