A service in transition

When you pass through the gates of the Children's Trust in the Surrey village of Tadworth, there is a feeling that you are going back in time. According to Dalton Leong, chief executive of the charity that helps rehabilitate children and young people aged naught to 19 with an acquired brain injury, many visitors refer to it as "a Tardis". It is easy to see why: the main office is a grade 1 listed 17th century manor house complete with original wooden panelling and rickety spiral staircase, while the rose gardens are immaculate with sculpted hedges and rolling lawns.

On a sunny June day, it is easy to imagine the 25-acre site playing host to aristocratic tea parties or why, when owned by Great Ormond Street Hospital for much of the 20th century, children from London were sent there to recuperate in the countryside from serious illness and injury.