Sam Roberts

Sam is the granddaughter of the late Ted Edwards. Sam and her husband and son lived together with Ted for 24 years. Sam was Ted’s main carer and is representative of the millions of ordinary people over the world, who care, or have cared for family members, with very little recognition for what they do - our unsung heroes. Sam works as a home shopper picker, working the 2am- 8am shift, so she could be with Ted in the day time. Sam worked for Asda for 20 years then left to go and work in education. Sam’s husband also works for Asda, During the pandemic when Sam wasn’t working, he came home one day and told her that the supermarket was desperate for staff. Sam took up the challenge, during the pandemic lockdown. The store’s three teams have picked 30,000 items per shift and helped keep us all fed and watered and safe. The day we spoke to Sam about Ted, she had been working and picked 1,100 items herself and had only had one hour sleep that day. Sam is also Group Scout Leader for the 1st Rhosnesni Scouts. She has been associated with the scouts for 20 years and became involved initially when her son Lewis joined. Sam is in charge of group leaders, the safety of the group and runs the Beaver groups. She is also the chief cook for district camp. Sam definitely takes after her grandad. Her son Lewis represented scouts from Wrexham in the world scout jamboree in Japan, six years ago. Sam organised raising the money for the trip by fund raising, bag packing and car boot sales.
This enabled the scouts to go to Japan for 3 weeks, where they visited Hiroshima, rode on a bullet train, mixed with other scouts from all over the world, swapped badges and uniforms, stayed with a Japanese family and immersed themselves in their culture.