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Driven by our founders’ visionary beliefs, The Anna & Peter Roberts Circle unites dedicated, long-standing champions for farm animals.
Peter Roberts was an ordinary man with an extraordinary vision. In 1967, concerned by the impact of modern agriculture on animals and the environment, Peter and his wife Anna founded Compassion in World Farming. Beginning at the kitchen table of the Roberts’ dairy farm, this grassroots movement has grown into a powerful global organisation. But Compassion, and The Anna & Peter Roberts Circle, still draw on the same passion for a world where all farm animals are treated with respect.
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Our Patron Her Grace The Duchess of Richmond, kindly shared her thoughts on this special group:
“I have long been inspired by the vision of Anna and Peter Roberts, who founded Compassion upon their deep concern not only for animals, but also for the people that intensive farming harms and exploits, and the habitats it destroys. Recognising that animals have feelings and emotions is something that has seemed obvious to me ever since I was a child and, for this reason, my family worked hard to ensure that our farm at Goodwood achieved organic status and pays great attention to welfare.
I am proud to be a founding member of The Anna & Peter Roberts Circle and would be delighted if you joined this special group of friends to safeguard their incredible heritage and to become a pioneer of an era built on compassionate welfare, not cruelty.”
Her Grace, The Duchess of Richmond, Patron of The Anna & Peter Roberts Circle
JOIN THE ANNA & PETER ROBERTS CIRCLE
By joining The Anna & Peter Roberts Circle with an annual contribution, you’ll help drive further changes to laws, company policies and social attitudes to create a better future for farm animals around the world. There are three annual joining levels to choose from: Friend (£1,000), Fellow (£2,500) or Custodian (£5,000). (Joint option also available.)
As part of this special group, you’ll receive regular Circle communications, with unique insights into Compassion’s campaigns and the impact of your support. Each year we also welcome the Circle to a dedicated event to meet fellow supporters, alongside senior Compassion staff, patrons and high profile supporters.
“It takes determination and perseverance, self-sacrifice and optimism to become a true friend of animals and defender of their needs and natural life. Peter and Anna Roberts knew so much about the welfare of farm animals and put their loving kindness into action. Whenever things seem hard and hopeless, I think of them: and then the path ahead suddenly seems clearer and my resolution stronger. They are the leading lights of Compassion and I am proud to be one of the members of their Circle.”
Joanna Lumley OBE, Compassion patron
To find out more and join the Anna & Peter Roberts Circle, please email Alice Windsor on circle@ciwf.org or call
+44 (0)1483 521 953.
YOUR LEGACY OF LOVE AND HOPE
Long after the first, terrible shock of COVID-19; long after life has returned to a perhaps adapted, but more familiar, ‘normal’; your help will still be needed to build a safer, kinder, more compassionate world.
Love is all you need
Leaving a gift in your Will for farm animals is one of the biggest acts of love and hope for the future that you can accomplish right now. Your legacy gift to
Compassion in World Farming has never been so important.
You can instinctively feel (perhaps now more than ever) the joy that dairy cows experience as they venture into a spring meadow and feel fresh grass beneath their feet.
But it took years of campaigning to get legal recognition across Europe that animals can experience pain and, of course, joy. And, we’re still fighting to make sure UK law acknowledges animals as sentient beings.
Throughout this dedicated campaign to protect thinking, feeling, vulnerable animals, gifts in Wills have been vital.
You know that a sow and her piglets share a bond of love, like any mother and child. Thanks to compassionate people like you, since 2013 it’s been illegal in the UK and EU to keep a pig in a cage for the full term of her pregnancy. And now we’re fighting to stop sows being forced to rear their young inside narrow, metal crates.
This steadfast campaign to End the Cage Age owes so much to gifts in Wills.
Leaving a legacy gift to Compassion is a very special way of showing your love of all animals. It does not cost anything in your lifetime but, without gifts in Wills, up to half of our work to end factory farm cruelty would just not be possible.
A FREE WILL WRITTEN FOR ALL COMPASSION SUPPORTERS
Compassion offers a noobligation Free Will Writing Service, which is available to all supporters in the UK.
To receive an information pack, or chat to us about leaving a gift of hope for animals, please email legacy@ciwf.org or call Sally Rogers on +44 (0)1483
521 953.
You’ve already shown how strongly you believe that farm animals deserve respect, care, and love. Please, show your
heart-felt compassion again today.
