[Last updated: October 2025]
Who we are
Teachers To Your Home Ltd (including its UK service "Teachers To Your Home" and its international division "British Teachers") recognises that our activities have environmental impacts. As an online-first education business, we are committed to reducing those impacts across our operations, supply chain, and the communities we serve.
Purpose and scope
This Policy sets out our environmental commitments and the management system we use to deliver them. It applies to our employees, contractors, and to the extent practicable our tutors (who are self-employed) and key suppliers.
Guiding principles
Prevent pollution: Avoid and minimise environmental harm in all reasonable ways.
Reduce first: Prioritise absolute emissions reduction before neutralisation or offsetting.
Online-first: Deliver services digitally wherever feasible to avoid unnecessary travel and materials.
Evidence-led: Measure our footprint and make decisions using reliable data.
Engage & influence: Encourage tutors, clients (families, schools, businesses), and suppliers to make lower-impact choices.
Standards and compliance
We aim to maintain an environmental management approach aligned to ISO 14001. Greenhouse gas accounting will follow ISO 14064-1 (latest edition). Where we claim carbon neutrality for defined scopes or activities, we will align with ISO 14068-1 / PAS 2060 requirements, using high-quality, independently verified instruments for any residual emissions we neutralise. We will comply with applicable environmental legislation in all jurisdictions in which we operate.
Our material impacts (summary)
Energy & digital infrastructure (Scope 2 & supplier Scope 3): cloud hosting, data transfer, storage.
Business travel (Scope 3): occasional staff travel and events; tutor travel is rare as we are online-first.
Home/remote working (Scope 3): employee equipment and energy use.
Purchased goods & services (Scope 3): IT hardware, software, professional services.
Waste (Scope 3): e-waste from IT equipment; minimal paper use.
Commitments
Measure & disclose: Annually measure our Scope 1, 2 and relevant Scope 3 emissions and maintain an inventory consistent with ISO 14064-1. Publish a short annual summary.
Reduce energy impact: Use cloud/data-centre providers with a clear path to 100% renewable electricity and high-efficiency operations; prefer regions and services backed by renewables.
Travel hierarchy: Avoid travel where possible; use rail over air for UK trips where practical; economy class for unavoidable flights; consolidate trips; offset only residual emissions after reduction.
Remote-first operations: Maintain a paper-free default; digital signatures; low-impact meeting practices (video off by default when not needed).
Sustainable procurement: Apply a supplier code covering energy, renewables, e-waste, and transparency; prefer vendors with science-based targets or equivalent.
Devices & e-waste: Extend device lifecycles; repair over replace; secure wipe and certified recycling at end-of-life.
Water & materials: Minimise office consumables; specify recycled/low-impact materials when needed.
Education & advocacy: Share simple guidance with tutors and clients on low-impact online learning (efficient hardware settings, scheduling across time zones to reduce out-of-hours heating/cooling, etc.).
Neutralisation of residuals: For any carbon-neutral claims we make, purchase high-quality, independently verified units (e.g., Gold Standard/Verra or equivalent) after prioritising reductions.
Objectives and targets (reviewed annually)
Digital operations: Run core platforms on providers targeting 100% renewable electricity; prefer data-centre regions with strong renewable grids.
Business travel: Year-on-year reduction in tCO₂e per FTE; >80% of UK intercity trips by rail where journey time ≤4 hours.
Paper & printing: Maintain paperless default (>99% contracts signed digitally).
Devices: Minimum 3-year primary use and 2-year secondary use for laptops; 100% certified e-waste recycling.
Training: 100% of employees complete annual sustainability briefing.
(We will publish precise baselines and time-bound targets in our annual summary and update them as data quality improves.)
Implementation (how we deliver)
Governance: The Director has overall accountability; the Operations Lead maintains the environmental action plan; each team owns relevant actions.
Management system: Keep an environmental aspects/impacts register; set objectives, actions and KPIs; review at least annually.
Supplier management: Include environmental criteria in procurement; request evidence of energy mix and targets from critical SaaS/hosting providers.
Travel policy: Require low-carbon modes by default; pre-approval for flights; virtual meetings first.
Remote-work guidance: Provide staff with energy-saving tips and equipment settings; encourage use of renewable tariffs where available.
Data efficiency: Optimise backups and retention periods; archive or delete data that is no longer needed to reduce storage impact.
Incident & non-conformance: Record environmental incidents and corrective actions; log and resolve supplier non-conformances.
Monitoring and reporting
Track KPIs quarterly and report annually on progress, including emissions inventory, actions taken, and plans for the following year.
Review this Policy at least once per year or following significant operational changes.
Roles and responsibilities
Directors: Approve Policy, targets and annual report.
Operations Lead: Owns delivery plan and supplier engagement.
All employees: Follow this Policy, complete training, and act to reduce impacts.
Tutors (self-employed): Encouraged to apply our guidance on low-impact online teaching and device management.
Communication
We will make this Policy available on our websites and provide periodic updates to employees, tutors and key suppliers.
Contact
Owner and data controller: Teachers To Your Home Ltd
Address: 8 King Edward Street, Oxford, OX1 4HL, United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
Review
This Policy will be reviewed annually and updated as needed to reflect improvements, changes in standards, and stakeholder feedback.
