Press

Join us in sharing the social and well-being benefits of phone-free spaces.

For enquiries, please email press@phonelocker.com.

About Phone Locker®

We help people to be fully present, supporting focus, well-being and genuine connection where it matters most.

Phone Locker®’s mission is to help schools, workplaces and events create distraction-free spaces where people can stay present, focus and truly connect. We are both the manufacturer and supplier of our products: we oversee every step of production — delivering consistent quality, fast shipping and solutions that work in real-world environments.

Our lockable phone pouches are used across the United Kingdom and internationally, helping organisations reclaim attention and create safer, more engaging environments.

Media resources

Looking for images, product photography or brand assets? On request, we will send a press pack containing:

• High-resolution logos
• Product photography
• Founder and team photos
• Approved brand descriptions

Email: press@phonelocker.com

Press releases

Colchester, Essex, 16 January 2025 — Phone Locker® opens its first official UK office and warehouse […]

3 February 2026 — Phone Locker® expands across UK schools as phone-free learning moves from debate into practice […]

Media coverage

BBC

March 2026 — The impact of smartphone bans in schools.

ITV News

January 2026 — ‘Getting their childhood back’: inside a school that bans phones.

BBC Essex

May 2026 — St Martin’s School in Brentwood to ban mobile phones from June.

ITV News

January 2026 — Should the government ban social media for under-16s?

Manchester Evening News

November 2025 — The school where phones are locked away — and the children love it.

In Your Area

May 2026 — St Martin’s School introduces a physical ‘phone barrier’ to improve pupil focus.

Financial Times

April 2026 — ‘Half amusing, half shameful’: employees face workplace phone bans.

Rayo

February 2026 — Fights fell by 80% after a Birmingham school introduced phone pouches.

Daily Mail

September 2025 — Schools spend more than £50,000 on lockable phone pouches after pupils used phones in secret.

My London

September 2025 — An east London school trust spends £54,000 on lockable pouches to keep phones out of classrooms.

Events

News from the road. Phone Locker® was proud to take part in the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham — one of the country’s leading education gatherings […]