HomeRun Insights

It’s almost been a year since the Department of Education released its Sustainability and climate change strategy, outlining how all schools

Q&A with Richard Brent , bursar at St Faith’s School , an independent prep school in Cambridge. They implemented HomeRun in July 2022. Photo: Tatler By Pandis Nglasberg What kind of school is St Faith's? We’re a day school in Cambridge, with ages 4 to 13. We don't have a traditional recruitment zone: the furthest are 30 or 40 miles away, the closest around the corner. Because we go from rather young to a bit older, we have both the independent traveller and the younger, rathe

Transport solutions are tricky to implement, expensive and take time to bed in. That’s why they need to be based on facts and data, rather than what people think. In most sectors, if you want to improve something, you have to measure it first. Without knowing the present situation, you can’t know that you’ve done anything to make it better. It’s the foundation or the baseline that we use to benchmark future progress. What we found with the school run, is that currently, there

I’ve just become a father for the first time. There are so many things preoccupying me about my child’s future, but it would be fair to assume the school run isn’t one of them… So why create an app devoted to it? The simple fact is, whether we take part in it or not, all of us - parents, children, non-parents, everybody - is affected by the school run. Growing up in Hampstead I have always been aware of this. People who don’t live there will probably think of the leafy street

Q&A with Nicola Pastore , mother and campaigner in South East London co-founding Sustainable School Run . What made you realise the school run was an issue in your area? We live near a lot of schools. And it’s obvious that between 8-9am, there's a lot of traffic and at other times of the day there isn't. Another interesting observation was there are certain weeks in the year when my children were still in school - they’re at a catchment primary school - but there wasn't any t

Q&A with Lewis Hayward , head at University College School Junior , an independent school in Hampstead, London. They joined HomeRun in 2018. Photo: UCS website What led you to introduce HomeRun? We had a lot of people driving to the school, and I wanted to reduce it for environmental reasons. Our catchment area isn’t that big, but, after we implemented HomeRun, we realised a lot of them were driving in from under two miles away. Driving in was something that had evolved, and