Jan and Roy Rose

A love of dancing brought donors Roy and Jan Rose together at a local ballroom lesson in Melbourne’s outer suburbs. Fast forward 40 years and the happily retired couple enjoy caring for their grandchildren and great grandchildren while fitting in trips to Europe and the US.

In 2013 Jan and Roy established their Charitable Fund Account as a memorial to honour and celebrate the life of their son Malcolm who died suddenly from a heart condition at 45 years.

“We established our charitable fund as a way of keeping Malcolm’s memory alive for our family, particularly Malcolm’s children,” says Jan.

Throughout their lives Jan and Roy have been both community minded and generous in their support of people experiencing health conditions, ranging from cancer to children’s health, by donating regularly to health organisations and charitable services.

“After graduating with an applied science degree, I spent most of my career working in IT and retired in 2015. Early in my career I assisted in the development of programming and computing for health services. Helping other people and causes has been important to Jan and I throughout our life together.”

One of the benefits of establishing their Charitable Fund Account was knowing that their favourite charities would continue to receive a donation annually in perpetuity.

“We really did our homework and researched our options. That’s one of things that really attracted us to the Foundation, that our charitable fund would be easy to manage and is very cost effective.”

- Roy Rose.

If you would like to learn more about establishing a Charitable Fund Account, click here.