Trevor Philpott served for 34 years in the Royal Marines, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel.

In 2000 he established C-FAR, a charitable training company that helped to rehabilitate young adult persistent male offenders. The project provided 11-week residential programmes of personal development, academic, social and life skills training followed by 9-months intensive mentoring back in the community. The programme reduced re-offending by over 35%. Owing to difficulties with cash flow, the charity closed in April 2005.

Following the experience of running the project and working with various levels of challenging behaviour, with colleagues he established Life Change UK - www.lifechangeuk.com , helping other professionals to work with hard to reach groups.
He has been involved in various efforts to promote reform within the Criminal Justice System, including being a member of the CSJ Prison Reform Group. This work led to the planning of a new specialist partnership aimed at rehabilitating military Veteran Offenders - The Veterans Change Partnership - http://www.lifechangeuk.com/supporting-the-military-covenant/