Sanctuary provides consented, Ofsted-ready Class C2 properties to established children's home operators across England. No planning risk. No operational involvement. Long-term partnership.
"The right property, in the right place, ready to operate."
"Consented C2 stock is the scarcest resource in children's residential care. We remove that constraint."Robbie Mair — Founder, Sanctuary Infrastructure
Sanctuary does the hard work — planning, consent, refurbishment, compliance. You bring the care expertise, the LA relationships, and the Ofsted registration. Together we build something lasting.
At current commissioning rates for complex needs placements, the Sanctuary lease represents less than 10% of a single child's monthly income. The numbers work at one child. At two, they become compelling.
Children's residential care in England is facing unprecedented demand. The properties to meet it do not exist in sufficient number — and the planning system makes them extraordinarily hard to create. This is the gap Sanctuary was built to close.
"Consented C2 stock is the scarcest resource in children's residential care. Sanctuary exists to remove that constraint — so good operators can do what they do best."
Two properties with confirmed Lawful Development Certificates. Seven further properties in planning or pre-application. All located in areas with strong LA commissioning demand.
Full asset packs available following NDA execution. Site visits by arrangement.
Sanctuary properties are designed around a therapeutic framework developed over twenty years of working with young people. Operators who share this ethos find that the homes support better placement stability, stronger Ofsted outcomes, and a different quality of care.
"This is the home I needed. That is why I built it — not as an investment thesis, but as a response to lived experience."Robbie Mair — Founder
The Sanctuary Model recognises that every child's path is unique. It supports children and young people through five distinct stages — from the depths of crisis to genuine, lasting independence, and the lifelong mentoring that follows. Operators can position a home anywhere along this pathway.
Sanctuary homes are designed to support both verbal and non-verbal therapies, meeting each child where they are. The principle is simple and proven — the best therapeutic resource for a traumatised child is the adults involved in their daily care, properly trained and supported to understand the emotional drivers behind behaviour.
Mainstream schools often fail children with SEND or trauma-related difficulties. The Sanctuary Model takes an active role — identifying educational barriers, supporting Education, Health and Care Plan applications, and collaborating with CAMHS, educational psychologists, and SEND specialists.
The commitment does not end at 18. Sanctuary connects care leavers with mentorship, vibrant communities, and employment opportunities — including in-house roles where young people can use their lived experience to support others. Lifelong guidance, mirroring the care a family provides.
The Sanctuary Care to Career Pathway supports young people leaving care into meaningful, stable employment — turning lived experience into strength, and aligning work with genuine passion and capability.
At seventeen, Robbie Mair was homeless — living in a tent in a park in South Wales. Violence at home had been part of his life. A period of family breakdown left him without a safe place in the world. Loneliness and anger consumed him.
An elderly couple took him in. They gave him not just a roof — but stability, kindness, and the experience of being genuinely believed in. Not a day passes that Robbie does not remember them with gratitude. They are gone now, but they live in everything Sanctuary is built to be.
In the years that followed, Robbie channelled what had been done to him into discipline and service. He trained in Japanese jujitsu — eventually earning three black belts and a purple belt in Brazilian jujitsu — as a practice of self-mastery and emotional regulation. He spent thirty years doing charity work: a Samaritans trained volunteer, seven years managing Crisis homeless shelters over Christmas week for over 1,000 guests, Chairman and mentor at Journeyman UK, and founder of an emotional intelligence support group that he eventually handed over — which has since grown to multiple locations and an online community.
Twenty years as a management consultant brought a different discipline — delivering £100m+ in profitability across 120 companies, 63 M&A transactions, 23 industries. Nokia, Vodafone, WPP, Lloyds Banking Group. The skills to identify root problems, design practical solutions, and build things that last.
Sanctuary is where all of it converges. The property expertise. The consulting discipline. The three decades of sitting with people in crisis. The personal experience of what the right environment at the right moment can do to a life.
Robbie's wife Popi is a physiotherapist with over 22 years of healthcare experience. Her clinical insight and unwavering support have shaped Sanctuary from the beginning — and she is available to support homes clinically where children's needs require it.
"Our children are the most important part of our society's future — and I've dedicated my life to making that future brighter."
Beth Massey brings more than 30 years in health and social care, and experience as an Ofsted-registered Outstanding manager. She has worked across homes, teams, and senior leadership to help children feel safe, loved, and seen — a creative, heart-led leader who specialises in improving services, developing new homes, and mentoring managers to believe in their own vision and capability.
Sanctuary works with a small number of operators who share the ethos and meet the operational standard. Preferred operators get first access to new consented stock as the pipeline grows.
Sanctuary's existing pipeline is not the limit of what we can offer. For operators who have identified a property — or who want a specific area covered — Sanctuary can source, acquire, and consent a new asset, then lease it back on the same long-term partnership terms.
From Milton Keynes to Mitcham, Stockton to South London — Sanctuary's pipeline spans high-demand commissioning areas across England. Register interest in pipeline properties now for conditional terms ahead of consent.
All enquiries begin with an NDA. The full asset pack — property details, planning documentation, operator economics, and proposed commercial terms — is shared following execution.
We respond to every enquiry personally. We do not use brokers or intermediaries.
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