SMART Home Management is the more practical project of Home Renaissance Foundation. SMART is a new vision for running your home.

2018 is bringing new people to our board. We are very happy to have their support.

I’m not normally given to public airings about private matters but I can’t help speaking about this one.

We are delighted to announce that Home Renaissance Foundation has a new Patron, Sheila the Baroness Hollins.

HRF has much pleasure in informing you that our book ‘The Home' edited by our Director Antonio Argandoña has been published. It is the first major work which takes the home as a centre of analysis for global social problems.

We would like to start by telling you what HRF is from scratch. For 12 years, we have generated a lot of information resulting from our research, and we now want to make it available more widely. Let’s begin!

Today we are very happy to announce that the Global Home Index has gained formal recognition by the UN and been included in their list of activities over the past year presented to the Secretary-General.

With all the hoo-ha about hormones and antibiotics in our meat, it's hardly surprising that 'flexitarianism' is the new vogue. 'Flexitarians' apparently eat a vegetarian diet most of the time but splash out on ethically sourced organic meat occasionally.

With the death of Peter Sutherland the world has lost one of its most distinguished citizens. A proud Irishman Peter was his countries youngest ever Attorney General and subsequently became a Commissioner in Brussels and then head of the World Trade Organization.

There's a quiet revolution visible across Britain, repeated throughout the world - the rise of the Granny nanny. Grannies and Grandads can be seen pushing buggies up and down the country, meeting children from school and accompanying youngsters to sports centres or after-school clubs.