This week marks Oppidan's 10th birthday, and we're turning the microphone around. Chief of Staff Adam Goodbody, who has worked alongside the founders for eight years, puts Henry Faber and Walter Kerr in the hot seat. They share the real origin story: a kitchen table office, a dad in a dressing gown and a phone call to a headteacher that launched their first school programme days later. Henry and Walter reflect on the summer camps that were "magic but financially ruinous," the China disaster trip, surviving Covid and why they've come to believe that every child, regardless of background, has remarkably similar needs when it comes to mentoring.
