Trevanion House was founded in 1991 by Christine and Mike Todd who remain on our Board of Directors.

Christine is a qualfied teacher and a former lecturer at Milton Keynes Further Education College. It was while she was providing life skills courses for adults with a learning disability that she identified the lack of holiday provision. In 1991 she was able, together with Mike, to set up Trevanion House as a registered care home, the first in the country specifically registered as a provider of holidays and respite care.

Mike spent most of his former career in industry, having graduated from Keele and Loughborough universities. Throughout the Seventies and the Eighties he was actively involved in establishing several projects in the voluntary sector, including two Abbeyfield homes, a house for homeless young people as well as being a board member of the Milton Keynes Community Trust. In North Tyneside he was a local councillor and served on the Social Services Committee at a time of considerable change in the provision of residential care. He now also holds a Doctorate in Theology from Winchester University.