Family and friends came together to celebrate the 90th birthday of our founder, Trevor Lyttleton. 

Trevor and wife Zippi laid on a lavish spread at their north west London home where around 40 guests enjoyed sunshine, drinks and swapping stories – just like a tea party. 

Trevor and Zippi’s daughter Maya introduced her ‘Grammy-nominated dad,’ before Trevor outlined how he started Re-engage 61 years ago to support older people living with loneliness. 

Trevor, who worked as a lawyer for 50 years specialising in music copyright and Court of Protection cases involving older people, was also a composer for the BBC in the 1970s and has 23 albums holding 345 of his compilations. His shared Grammy-nomination came in 1980 for a Broadway hit musical, ‘A Day in Hollywood/A Night in Ukraine.’ 

And when he wasn’t writing music Trevor was helping musicians with copyright law, including 1970s progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer. 

In 2007 Trevor was awarded an MBE for his services to charity and in 2024 he was given a National Lottery Gamechanger Award. 

At his special birthday party, Trevor said: “Whatever I may have achieved would have meant very little without the love, support and encouragement of those closest to me. 

“I have been extraordinarily fortunate in my wonderful wife Zippi, our children, our grandchildren and the wider family. You have all brought me more happiness, pride and gratitude than any campaign, composition, or newspaper letter ever could. It is a wonderful thing, at 90, to still be surrounded by friendship, laughter, affection and happy memories that give me every reason to look forward to whatever comes.” 

Everyone at Re-engage would like to wish Trevor a very happy 90th birthday!