About Us
Sir Richard Trehane retired as the Chairman of the Milk Marketing Board in 1977. To mark his a tremendous contribution to the Board and to the dairy industry worldwide a Trust was launched to provide awards for study of any aspect of the dairy industry.
Our Mission
The Trehane trust sets out to encourage learning and the gaining of valuable insight across the dairy supply chain.
The Trehane Trust’s objective is to educate the general public concerning dairying by the dissemination of information by any means, and in establishing and maintaining scholarships, exhibitions and bursaries to be awarded from time to time, to enable suitable candidates to engage in research and education into dairying, either in the UK or in other parts of the world.
The Trehane trustees are responsible for the Trust’s investments. It has a policy to minimise (and preferably avoid) any unethical investments that could tarnish its reputation. The policy is reviewed at the annual general meeting.
Our Aims
The Trehane Trust aims to deliver its purpose by attracting the next generation of dairy enthusiasts and leaders by sponsoring Nuffield Farming Awards and its own fellowships. It aims to ensure the studies undertaken make a positive contribution to the sector in the short and long term.
Past scholars have studied subjects relating to practical dairy farming as well as milk processing and retailing, and areas affecting industry and consumer relationships.
There are now more than 100 Trehane scholars, many of whom have put their study findings to valuable use and progressed their own careers and their contribution to the dairy industry.
Post study, scholars are encouraged to take part in study tours and networking groups across the industry.
Trehane Trustees
Diana has a BSc in Agriculture from Nottingham University and an MSc in Animal Nutrition from The University of California, Davis. She was principle consultant for Promar International for 20 years before setting up her consultancy company QNM Ltd.
She is a 2005 Nuffield Trehane Scholar and has been a Trustee since 2016 and is currently Chair.
Johnny is responsible for the dairy herds that are part of the family’s dairy farming and farmhouse cheese production business in Somerset.
He is a 2014 Nuffield Trehane Scholar and has, as a trustee, represented the Trehane scholar group.
Johnny became a trustee in November 2021.
Tim and his wife Louise run the family organic dairy farming business in Shropshire.
He was a Trehane-sponsored Nuffield Scholar in 2003, and travelled to Australia, New Zealand and Argentina in search of knowledge and best practice used to support organic dairy farming.
He became a Trehane trustee in 2016.
Tony runs the Entrepreneurs in Dairying business training programme for aspiring dairy producers on behalf of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers, and he co-ordinates the Nuffield Dairy Group on behalf of the Nuffield Trust
Tony was awarded a Nuffield Trehane scholarship in 1991. He became a trustee in March 2020.
Andy is a Partner at EFFP (European Food & Farming Partnership), Non-Exec Director at AberInnovation and Associate Director at England Marketing. He is also a member of UK Government Food & Drink Sector Council, Food and Drink Export Council, the Strategic Trade Advisory Group and the Welsh Food & Drink Board.
Andy became a trustee in March 2020.
Liam is Professor of Animal Science and dairy lecturer at Harper Adams University and is a past President of the British Society of Animal Science.
Liam is from a mixed beef and sheep farm in the north of Scotland. He is a graduate of Aberdeen University and completed a PhD on rumen metabolism at the University of Nottingham.
Liam became a trustee in 2021.
Since 2018, James has worked in the financial services industry, where he has led transformation efforts across employee engagement, software engineering, regulatory technology, program governance and process architecture.
The grandson of the charity’s founder, the late Sir Richard Trehane, James provides an important non-agricultural perspective for the trustees.
Karen is a PR consultant and journalist specialising in business to business communications on behalf of agricultural supply industry companies and organisations.
She was awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship sponsored by the Trehane Trust in 1990 and became a Trehane trustee in 2020.
