He’s won this year’s Excellence in Care Award from Lincolnshire Freemasons, given to the man who has done the most to make lives better for people in our communities.
Scunthorpe-based Rob, who’s been a Freemason since 2022, was given the award at the Lincolnshire Provincial Grand Lodge meeting in Lincoln, where hundreds were told of his pro bono work over decades.
Rob has a degree in psychotherapy, and has used that to build and sustain three self-help groups for addicts in Yorkshire’s East Riding; to support more than 150 serving and retired Royal Marines, for which he’s been given honorary membership of 42 Commando; and to support NHS staff who want to, in Rob’s words, ‘vent their anguish’. This year he has helped almost 120 of them.
His work for the Marines arose from a failed attempt to join in the 1980s, when he formed a friendship with another trainee. Rob helped him through his problems, and word spread from there.