Trustees
The Footprints Foundation has three trustees chaired by Bob Holt:
Robert (Bob) Holt
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 a 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, 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 in 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 to benefit as many people as possible.
Angela Ramona Burnett
When Angela joined Mears she was inspired by the vast amount of charitable and community work that Mears carried out which gave support and hope to many people whilst building cohesion amongst communities and helping to ensure a sustainable quality of life for so many.
Angela was passionate to become involved and champion projects to support these causes and became a member of the Mears Corporate Social Responsibility Group.
During her time with Mears Angela initiated a Red Bin scheme, which involved in excess of 1000 employees across the South of England donating items such as cans of food, bedding and books on a monthly basis. The items collected were donated to local homeless missions etc. She was also the Project Assistant and member of a team of 12 who in less than a week undertook the building of a Cafeteria and Recreational play area at a school in the Punjab, India. The completed project provided the children and other members of the deprived community the facility to cook and eat meals within a safe and hygienic environment.
Angela has been involved in many other community projects including serving breakfast to the homeless at a shelter in London, running the Flora marathon for Shelter the homeless charity, serving breakfast on a weekly basis at an inner city school breakfast club, walking the Thames Path and Hadrian's Wall to raise funds for the Bobby Moore Fund, and clearing and decorating community halls to enable young people to have a safe environment to meet, to name but a few.
In 2012 Angela will be a Project Assistant for projects in South Africa to provide enhanced facilities for orphanages in Johannesburg. She will work with teams of 12 or more people within the London business community to deliver this programme.
Through the Footprints Foundation Angela continues to strive to develop her work in supporting vulnerable people around the world.
Jane Elizabeth Tappenden
Jane is a keen supporter of worthwhile causes. Over the years she has fund raised for many charities, taking part in activities such as carol singing, a swimathon in aid of CLIC (Cancer and Leukaemia in Children), the Race for Life for Cancer Research UK and dyeing her hair red for Red Nose Day! She has co-ordinated several successful Thames Path Walks, with walkers raising signicant funds for various charities each time.
Jane has taken part in a wide range of community projects across the UK. This includes gardening at St Peters Hospice in Bristol, serving breakfast to the homeless at Whitechapel Mission in London, helping to clear and clean up a disused building to create a Community Café on a housing estate in Wigan, helping with the rejuvenation of a community swimming pool and gardens at Woodingdean, Brighton and taking part in the Big Tidy Up at a pond and garden clearance in Tonbridge, Kent, to name but a few.
In 2009, Jane co-managed and took part in an international project of a team of 12 volunteers, undertaking plumbing, tiling, decorating and gardening work at the Hopes and Dreams Community Village in Sri Lanka.
In February 2011 Jane took part in the regeneration of a school garden in Dursley, Gloucestershire.