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4children nurseries Peterborough, Wittering RAF Email: info@acorn Susan Hogg, Peter Reynolds, Head office: City Reach, (100); Plymouth 1 (32), childcare.co.uk Cherie Wilson 5 Greenwich Place, Plymouth 2 (55); Stockton-on- Website: www.acorn Established: 1988 London E14 9NN Tees 1 (36), Stockton-on-Tees 2 childcare.co.uk Owns 7 nurseries: Bristol (100); Tel: 020 7522 2112 (61), Stockton-on-Tees 3 (24), Chief executive: Zoë Raven Cardiff: Llanishen (75), Oakfield Email: [email protected] Stockton-on-Tees 4 (48); Established: 1989 Street (49), Park Grove (149), Website: www.4children.org.uk Witham (37); Yorkshire, Owns/manages 10 nurseries: Partridge Road (55), Whitchurch Directors: Imelda Redmond & Linton-on-Ouse RAF (64). Brafield-on-the-Green(40), (84); Duffryn, Newport (48) Peter Rogers Also owns/manages 86 Burton Latimer (80), Stanwick Manages 4 nurseries: Bristol, Established: 1984 children’s centres. (56) – Northants; Milton Keynes: Aviva (33); Cardiff, BBC Wales Owns/manages 41 nurseries: Places: 2,217 Castlethorpe (36, plus 16 out-of- (61); Coleg Morgannwg, Ashford, Kent (49); Braintree, Employees: 680 school places), Fishermead Nantgarw (60); Newport, Office Essex 1 (73), Braintree 2 (40); (40), Kents Hill (56), New for National Statistics (35) Buckinghamshire, Halton RAF ABC Early Learning Bradwell (33, plus 16 out-of- Places: 749 (56); Bury St Edmunds, Head office: Hunter House school places), Shenley Church Employees: 379 Honnington RAF (75); Derby 1 Lodge, Lochmaben, End (46), Westcroft (64); Plans: Further expansion. (64), Derby 2 (66), Derby 3 (44); Dumfriesshire DG11 1RP Newport Pagnell (28, plus 16 Gateshead 1 (55), Gateshead 2 Tel: 01387 811197 out-of-school places). Also runs all about children (54), Gateshead 3 (52), Email: [email protected] Forest Schools, out-of-school Head office: N/a Gateshead 4 (52), Gateshead 5 Directors: Ann McEwan, clubs, a training centre and Tel: 07920 041315 (36); Gloucester 1 (60), Malcolm McEwan health and safety consultancy. Email: russellford@ Gloucester 2 (52), Gloucester 3 Established: 1988 Places: 479 hotmail.co.uk (44), Gloucester 4 (40), Owns 3 nurseries: Ecclefechan, Employees: 224 Website: Each nursery has its Gloucester 5 (48), Gloucester 6 Dumfries (20); Egremont (112), Plans: Further nurseries in own website, eg. www.west (26); Hoxley, Essex (20); Whitehaven (53) – Cumbria. Milton Keynes area during 2016. fieldsdaynursery.co.uk Kinloss, RAF Kinloss, Morayshire Also owns a training company. Directors: Russell Ford (chief (128); Knowsley: Halewood 1 Places: 185 Acorns Nurseries executive), Marcia Viccars (42), Halewood 2 (59); Leeds, Employees: 41 Head office: Acorns House, (operations director) City and Holbeck (45); Lincoln, 7 Park Grove, Cardiff CF10 3BJ Established: 2010 Waddington RAF (108); London: Acorn Childcare Tel: 02920 382009 Owns 13 nurseries: Bishops Erith (34), Plaistow (44), Central Support Office: Email: seradownes@ Stortford, Herts (66); Bracknell, Plumstead (49), Thamesmead Unit A, Lincoln Lodge, acornsnurseries.co.uk Berks (148); Cheltenham (61); (32); North Tyneside (65); Milton Keynes MK46 5JP Website: www.acorns Gloucester (90); London: Northumberland RAF (49); Tel: 01908 510309 nurseries.co.uk Clapham Junction (69), Oxon, Benson RAF (99); Fax: 01908 510222 Directors: Martyn Hogg, Paddington (113), West x fo what the directory covers a ndre w

l This list includes details of all in our listing, please contact us otherwise stated. Nurseries are reflects the state of play at the the private and independent at [email protected] listed alphabetically by location. end of October 2015. chains of nurseries, and we can include you in the kindergartens, playgroups next edition of Nursery Chains, l ‘Places’ denotes the total * Denotes entries that are new and crèches known to Nursery due out in autumn 2016. number of registered nursery for this issue of Nursery Chains. World. Under the term ‘chain’, places. This does not include we have included groups with l Individual nurseries have not nursery classes in schools, at least three nurseries up usually been named. Figures out-of-school care or holiday and running. after each nursery’s location places, but does include While we have tried to be denote the number of places it crèche provision and places in comprehensive, we may have is registered for. The number of any nurseries that are owned omitted some chains not employees includes full-time and managed by each group. known to us. If your chain is not and part-time staff unless The information in each entry photos at first steps children’s nursery group group nursery children’s steps first at photos

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Norwood (120); Luton, Beds Email: razna_alphabet Directors: Andy Morris, Moortown, Leeds (56); (108); Maidenhead, Kent (176); [email protected] Adam Sage (financial director) Nottingham (91); Old Woking, Slough, Berks (134); Sutton Website: www.alphabet Established: 1989 Surrey (79); Portsmouth, Hants Coldfield, W Midlands (94); housenurseries.co.uk Owns 82 nurseries: (70); Redhill, Surrey (103); West Bridgford, Notts 1 (53), Directors: Dele Balogun, Basildon, Essex (87); Bolton, Reigate, Surrey (109); Renfrew, West Bridgford 2 (58) Kemi Balogun Lancs (87); Bristol (45); Bush Renfrewshire (45); Sidcup, Kent Places: 1,290 Established: 1994 Hill Park, Middlesex (52); Bushy (48); Slough, Berks (64); Employees: Approx 350 Owns/manages 5 nurseries: Park, Surrey (62); Canterbury, Solihull, W Midlands (64); Plans: To acquire 2 or 3 London: Beckton (32), East Ham Kent (143); Cardiff (51); Southampton 1, Hants (77), additional settings in 2016 (47), Plashet (57), Stratford Caterham, Surrey (72); Cheadle, Southampton 2 (77), (72), Upton Park (62) Greater Manchester (55); Southampton 3 (77); Surbiton, *Alpha Nurseries Places: 270 Chigwell, Essex (49); Chingford, Surrey (75); Swindon, Wilts Head office: 51 Crabbe Street, Employees: 70 Essex (65); Crofton, Kent (68); (68); Tingley, Leeds (89); Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 5HT Dartford, Kent (98); Derby (81); Tonbridge, Kent (100), Tel: 01473 322600 Angels at Play Edinburgh (76); Epsom, Surrey Tunbridge Wells, Kent (65); Email: enquiries@alpha- Nurseries (99); Glasgow 1 (91), Glasgow 2 Twickenham 1, Middlesex (26), nurseries.co.uk Head office: 1 Dockyard, Star (102); Guildford, Surrey (61); Twickenham 2 (83); Waltham Website: www.alpha-nurseries. Street, Ware, Herts SG12 7AN Harpenden 1, Herts (57), Cross, Herts (62); Warrington, co.uk Tel: 01920 486487 Harpenden 2 (93); Haslemere, Cheshire (109); Wilmington, Owners/directors: Email: headoffice@ Surrey (94); Hatch End, Kent (51); Windsor, Berks (72) Jane & Chris Hewson angelsatplay.co.uk Middlesex (87); Heathrow, Places: 6,304 Managing director: David Finch Website: www.angelsat Middlesex (84); Hinckley, Leics Employees: 2,400 Director of nursery services: play.co.uk (104); Hounslow, Middlesex Plans: A number of potential Julie Bullivant Directors: Angela Spencer, (97); Hull, E Yorks (77); Kenton, acquisitions to be completed Established: 2010 Paul Spencer Middlesex (86); Kew, Surrey during the remainder of 2015/ Owns 9 nurseries: Dereham, Established: 1993 (66); Kirkby, Liverpool (67); early 2016. Norfolk (39); Diss, Norfolk 1 Owns 3 nurseries: Hoddesdon Lichfield, Staffs (134); London: (46), Diss 2 (32); Dover, Kent (89), Ware 1 (50), Ware 2 (118) Balham (68), Battersea (79), Bambinos (35); Felixstowe, Suffolk (42); – all in Herts Bromley (94), Crouch Hill (36), Head office: Bambinos Ipswich, Suffolk 1 (55), Ipswich 2 Places: 257 Dulwich (86), Eltham (47), Childcare Centres, (42), Ipswich 3 (52); Sandwich, Employees: 97 Enfield (44), Finsbury Park 31 Houndiscombe Road, Kent (46) (103), Fulham (140), Golders Mutley, Plymouth, Devon Out of school: Burlington Road, Ashford Play Green (53), Hendon 1 (73), PL4 6EU Ipswich (30) Nursery Schools Hendon 2 (53), Kingston-upon- Tel: 01752 226767 Places: 389 Head office: Strathmore, Thames (72), New Eltham (69), Email: bambinosplymouth@ Employees: 160 43 Albert Road, Ashford, Peckham Rye (72), Putney (57), aol.com Plans: Opening 4 nurseries: 2 in Kent TN24 8NU Raynes Park (47), Richmond Directors: William Lane, Lincolnshire (68) (100), Norfolk Tel: 01233 625301 (66), Southgate (79), Alison Lane (50) and Suffolk (76). Email: email@ Teddington (97), West Established: 1993 ashfordplaynursery.co.uk Hampstead (84); Macclesfield, Owns 4 nurseries: Plymouth: Alphabet House Website: www. Cheshire (65); Maidstone, Kent City (95), Plymstock (130), dAY Nurseries ashfordplaynursery.co.uk (95); Milford, Staffs (71); Milton Tavistock (62), Woolwell (58) Head office: Gunthorpe Road, Proprietor: Val Webb Keynes: The Centre (126), Stony Places: 345 Lowdham, Nottingham Established: 1971 Stratford (113), Wavendon (65); Employees: 120 NG14 7EN Owns 4 nurseries: Ashford, Tel/Fax: 01159 664556 Kent: Albert Road (44), Albert Email: headoffice@ Road Crèche (12), Wall Road alphabethouse.co.uk (44), Willesborough (24), plus Website: www.alphabet a 5-place summer school for house.co.uk five- to six-year-olds. Albert and Directors: Marie Brentford, Wall Road both have an 8-place Anthony Brentford after-school club and an Established: 1996 8-place summer school. Owns 4 nurseries: Beeston Places: 124 (40), Lowdham (67), West Employees: 31 Bridgford (85), White Post (100) – all in Notts Asquith Day Places: 292 Nurseries and Employees: 92 pre-schools Placement centre: 34 Germain Alphabet House Street, Chesham, Bucks HP5 1LE Nurseries Tel: 01753 201122 Head office: Alphabet House, Email: parents@ Canberra Road, East Ham, asquithnurseries.co.uk London E6 2RW Website: www.asquith Tel: 020 8519 2023 nurseries.co.uk

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*banana moon Owns 39 nurseries: crèche), Bath Lane (12). Big Life (39) – all in Aberdeenshire Head office: Suite 27 Athena Aberdeenshire 1 (64), Families also works to provide Out-of-school club: Westhill (18) Court, Athena Drive, Tachbrook Aberdeenshire 2 (58), freeschools at Longsight Campus Places: 298 Park, Warwick CV34 6RT Aberdeenshire 3 (62); and Cheetham Park. Employees: 70 Tel: 01926 338497 Bishopbriggs, E Dunbartonshire Places: 514 Email: info@ (97); Bury, Lancs (79); Castleton, Employees: 120 Bright Horizons bananamoondaynursery.co.uk Lancs (80); Cumbernauld, N Family Solutions Website: www. Lanarkshire (84); Dunblane, Bows and arrows Head office: 2 Crown Court, bananamoonfranchise.com Stirlingshire (85); Dundee 1 (65), group Rushden, Northants Directors: Mike Bates, Dundee 2 (51), Dundee 3 (60), Head office: Wigwams Nursery, NN10 6BS Steve Felmingham Dundee 4 (98); Edinburgh 1 Whitton Church Lane, Ipswich, Tel: 01933 415900 Established: 2005 (120), Edinburgh 2 (100) Suffolk IP1 6LW Email: generalenquiries@ Owns 36 nurseries: Aberdeen Edinburgh 3 (105), Edinburgh 4 Tel: 01473 240304 brighthorizons.com (71); Altrincham, Cheshire (70); (69), Edinburgh 5 (58); Falkirk Email: info@bowsandarrows Website: www.bright Baddesley Ensor, Warwickshire (74); Glasgow: Ballieston (79), group.co.uk horizons.co.uk (30); Billericay, Essex (63); Garrowhill (61), Glasgow Airport Website: www.bowsandarrows Managing director: Birmingham 1 (74), Birmingham (91), Kelvinside (46); Haydock, group.co.uk Stephen H Kramer 2 (50), Birmingham 3 (45), Merseyside (112); Kirkintilloch, Director: The nursery is a charity General manager: Lydia Green Birmingham 4 (43); Bristol (65); E Dunbartonshire (120); managed by a board of Established: 1988 Coventry, W Midlands (68); Liverpool Princes Dock (100); voluntary directors; the group is Owns or manages 207 Crawley, E Sussex (72); Harbury, Manchester: Altrincham (50), overseen day to day by a group nurseries: Aberdeen 1 (35), Warwickshire (48); Hartlepool, Astley (105), Baguley (56), manager. Aberdeen 2 (62), Aberdeen 3 Co Durham (66); Hatton, Sandilands (56), Shaw (83), Established: 2004 (67), Aberdeen 4 (99); Warwickshire (68); Heanor, Swinton (140), University of Owns 5 nurseries: Ipswich: Abingdon, Oxon (114); Andover, Derbyshire (49); Hyde, Greater Manchester (86); Prestwich, Aster Road (120), Hogarth Road Hants, HQ Land Forces (40); Manchester (72); Kempston, Lancs (98); Salford: Salford (60), Dickens Road (25), Ashbourne, Co Meath (53); Bedfordshire (67); Kingsbury, (79), Salford Hope Hospital (63), Chevallier Street (32), Whitton Banstead, Surrey (107); Barford, Staffordshire (30); Manchester 1 Salford Quays MediaCityUK Church Lane (110) Warks (45); Basingstoke, Hants (69), Manchester 2 (69); (180); South Lanarkshire College Places: 342 (90); Bedford (75); Birmingham, London: Battersea (52), (75); Stirling (88); Telford (42). Employees: 80 W Midlands (64); Bournemouth, Chiswick (60), Hounslow (65), Also operates a CACHE and Dorset (86); Bracknell 1, Berks Nunhead (36), Southwark (78), SQA-accredited training division, Bramleys Nurseries (94), Bracknell 2 (50); Bristol 1 Wimbledon (60); Lower BNG Early Years Training, offering Head office: The Carriage (56); Bristol 2, MoD (117); Bury St Sundon, Bedfordshire (34); vocational qualifications up to House, Ardington, Wantage, Edmonds, Suffolk (97); Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Level 5 in early years and Oxon OX12 8PQ Caterham, Surrey (98); (65); Norwich, Norfolk (36); management, functional skills, Tel: 01235 861254 Chesham Bois, Bucks (68); Sale, Greater Manchester (71); assessor training and CPD Email: info@bramleys Chigwell, Essex (118); Sheffield, S Yorks (65); St opportunities. childcare.co.uk Cirencester, Glos (68); Coulsdon, Albans, Herts (79); Stoke Poges, Places: 3,219 Website: www.bramleys Surrey (84); Crawley, W Sussex Buckinghamshire (85); Sutton Employees: 740 childcare.co.uk (40); Crowthorne, Berks, Coldfield, W Midlands (62); Plans: Head office will relocate Directors: John Watson, Broadmoor Hospital (50); Welwyn Garden City, Herts (70); to Newfield House, 1 New Street, Sue Watson, Jessica Bown Croydon, Surrey (80); Dartford, West Bromwich, W Midlands (48) Musselburgh EH21 6HY, at the Established: 1990 Kent (175); Didcot, Oxon, Places: 2,155 end of 2015. Owns 6 nurseries: Banbury Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Employees: 385 (53), Didcot (88), Oxford, (63); Dorking, Surrey (91); Plans: To open 18 new nurseries big life group Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Drogheda, Co Meath (89); Dublin in 2016. Head office: The Big Life Group (49), Wantage 1 (102), Wantage 1 (94), Dublin 2 (122), Dublin 3 HQ, 1st Floor, 463 Stretford 2 (89) – all in Oxon; Salisbury, (103); Edinburgh: Annandale Bertram Nursery Road, Manchester Wilts (46) (59), Bruntsfield (49), Cramond Group M16 9AB Places: 427 (101), Elsie Inglis (65), Head office: Bertram House, Tel: 0161 848 2420 Employees: 155 Livingstone (108), Morton Mains Block B, Unit 2, Kittleyards, Email: colette.holland@ Farm (75), Royal Bank of Causewayside, Edinburgh biglifefamilies.com The Bridges Scotland (70), Rutland Square EH9 1PJ Website: www.biglife Pre-School Nurseries (44); Egham, Surrey (72); Tel: 01316 622270 nurseries.com Head office: 1 Prospect Place, Epsom, Surrey (70); Esher 1, Email: [email protected] Directors: Caroline Price, Arnhall Business Park, Surrey (85), Esher 2 (50); Website: www.bertram Emma Perry Westhill, Aberdeenshire Farnborough, Hants (104); Fleet, nurserygroup.com Established: 2004 AB32 6SY Hants (120); Frimley Green, Chief executive officer: Owns/manages 10 nurseries and Tel: 01224 744741 Surrey (80); Gaydon, Warks Graeme Scott children’s centres: Manchester: Fax: 01224 744742 (95); Godalming, Surrey (56); Director: Tom Lyons Longsight (62), Moss Side (60), Email: [email protected] Guildford, Surrey (96); Operations director: Burnage (60), Cheetham Park Directors: Marie Mogford, Harpenden, Herts (43); Hemel Julie Campbell (72), Rusholme (60), Slade Lane, Graham Mogford, Lois Duncan Hempstead, Herts (54); Hinxton, Commercial director: (60), Gorton South (84); Established: 1985 Cambs (91); Ipswich, Suffolk Susan McGhee Stockton-on-Tees: Norton (24, Owns 3 nurseries: Bridge of Don (78); Kenilworth, Warks (67); Established: 2006 plus 10 crèche), Durham Road (10 (116), Westhill 1 (143), Westhill 2 Kings Hill, Kent (129); London:

24 Nursery Chains autumn 2015 www.nurseryworld.co.uk training academy offering short courses to settings within the Warks region. Places: 171 Employees: 65

*Brighter Beginnings Day Nursery Head office: Newhall Farm, Stocks Lane, Over Peover, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9HA Tel: 07436 289011 Email: naeem@ brighterbeginnings.co.uk Directors: Gill Race (co-founder), David Race (co-founder), Naeem Akhtar (director for business development), Jayne Haigh (director for quality), Sharon Street (director for training), Tom Race (director of HR and premises) Barbican (54), Barnes (79), (59); Saffron Walden, Essex (68); Luton, Beds (134); Owns 9 nurseries: Manchester: Beaufort Park (102), Beckenham (79); Salisbury, Wilts (65); Maidstone, Kent (96); Belthorne (57), Charlestown (52), Bexleyheath (92), Sevenoaks, Kent (63); Sheffield, Manchester 1 (147), Manchester (117), Fallowfield (52), Hallam Brentford (72), Broadgate (80), S Yorks (51); Southam, Warks 2 (124), Manchester 3 (99), (53), New Moston (67), Newton Chingford (45), Chiswick 1 (87), (56); Southampton, Hants (81); Manchester 4 (84); Oxford 1 Heath (83), Wetherby Street Chiswick 2 (75), Clapham (121), Sudbury, Suffolk (62); Sunbury, (54), Oxford 2 (61), Oxford 3 (72); Oldham: Chadderton (72), Crouch End 1 (88), Crouch End 2 Surrey (50); Sutton, Surrey (55); (47), Oxford 4 (148), Oxford 5 Fitton Hill (50) (79), Dulwich (33), Feltham Swanscombe, Kent (143); (100), Oxford 6 (81); Places: 623 (55), Finchley 1 (38), Finchley 2 Tonbridge, Kent (68); Tunbridge Peterborough, Cambs (52); Employees: 300+ (96), Finchley Road (86), Fleet Wells, Kent (79); Wallingford, Reigate, Surrey (96); Sheffield 1, Street (45), Fulham (99), Oxon (134); Watford, Herts (63); S Yorks (56), Sheffield 2 (84); BrightSparks Day Greenwich (52), Highams Park Wellingborough, Northants (52); Sutton, Surrey (80); Swindon, Nurseries (48), Highgate (55), Hillingdon Weybridge, Surrey (86); Wilts (45); Timperley, Greater Head office: Meadow Hill, (124), Hyde Park (45), Imperial Windlesham, Surrey (105); Manchester (88); Tytherington, Purley, Surrey CR8 3HL Wharf (68), Islington (84), Witney, Oxon (64); Woking, Cheshire (90); Warrington, Tel: 020 8660 2340 Kingston 1 (98), Kingston 2 (119), Surrey (64) Cheshire (123); Watford, Herts Website: www.brightsparks Lewisham 1 (48), Lewisham 2 Kidsunlimited: Abingdon, Oxon (92); Wokingham, Berkshire (73); daynurseries.co.uk (63), New Southgate (58), (148); Altrincham, Greater Wilmslow 1, Cheshire (96), Email: [email protected] Northampton Grove (48), Manchester (60); Barrow-in- Wilmslow 2 (80) Directors: Emma Jones, Northwick Park (140), Pimlico Furness, Cumbria (62); Places: 16,715 Helen Simpson (62), Raynes Park (62), Regent’s Basingstoke, Hants (144); Employees: Circa 6,000 Established: 1999 Park (75), Richmond (138), Beckenham, Kent (64); Bickley, Plans: Expects to add 2-5 Owns 5 nurseries: New Malden Ruislip, RAF Northolt (74), Kent (88); Burnaston, Derby nurseries in the next 6 months (58), Old Coulsdon (46), Shortlands (74), Southfields (57); Cambridge 1 (88), Purley (61), Purley Way (58), (50), Southgate (99), Cambridge 2, Science Park Bright Kids Selsdon (55) – all in Surrey Southwark (96), Spitalfields (148), Cambridge 3 (152), Head office: Millennium House, Places: 278 (50), St John’s Wood (92), Cambridge 4 (76); Chester, High Street, Studley, Warks Employees: 75 Stockwell (64), Streatham (52), Cheshire (60); Church B80 7HL SW1, Foreign and Crookham, Hants (80); Crewe, Tel: 01527 452430 Bringing up Baby Commonwealth Office (46), Cheshire (104); Didcot, Oxon Email: [email protected] Support centre: Unit 1A, SW1, MoD (38), Teddington (92); Ely, Cambs (120); Epping, Website: www.bright-kids.co.uk The Plough Brewery, (80), Tooting Bec (156), Essex (92); Esher, Surrey (78); Chief executive: Tricia Wellings 516 Wandsworth Road, Twickenham 1 (44), Twickenham Fulborn, Cambs (108); Glasgow Head of operations: London SW8 3JX 2 (57), Upminster (66), Wembley (100); Guildford, Surrey (60); Emma Beard Tel: 020 7622 5552 (120), West Dulwich (76), West Lancaster (62); Leeds 1, Yorks Established: 1999 Fax: 020 7622 5570 Hampstead (132), Wimbledon (200), Leeds 2 (69); Liverpool 1 Owns 3 nurseries: Crabbs Email: office@ (95), Woodford Green (60); (60), Liverpool 2 (89); London: Cross, Worcs (55); Northfield, bringingupbaby.co.uk Loughton, Essex (56); Battersea (61), Chelsea (49), Birmingham (64); Studley, Website: www.bringing Maidstone, Kent (54); Carshalton (65), East Barnet Warks (52) upbaby.co.uk Northampton (58); Poole, (81), Highbury (70), Ladbroke 5 out-of-school clubs: Crabbs Established: 1989 Dorset (42); Reading, Berks: Grove (79), Kingston (73), Cross (24), Matchborough (24), Chief executive officer: Abbeymore (121), Inglewood Regent’s Place (76), Richmond Northfield (24), Studley (26), David Hancock (169), Thames Valley Park (43), (71), Teddington 1 (80), Wigwam at Wychall School, Operations manager: Waterside (120); Rugby, Warks Teddington 2 (78), Wandsworth Birmingham (24). Also runs a Paul Moore

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Owns 4 nurseries: London: Just Learning, Nunu and Daventry, Northants (97); Midhurst, W Sussex (41); Brentford (42), Clapham (72), Tibbi Tots brands Deeside, Flintshire (114); Derby 1 Milton Keynes 1 (96), Milton Hammersmith (70), Kentish Head office: St Matthews, (107), Derby 2 (110); Dundee Keynes 2 (100), Milton Keynes 3 Town (55) Shaftsbury Drive, Burntwood, (58); Dorking 1, Surrey (44), (110); Morden, Surrey (72); Places: 239 Staffs WS7 9QP Dorking 2 (52); Dunfermline 1, Newbury, Berks (104); Employees: 70 Tel: 0870 380 6614 Fife (107), Dunfermline 2 (89); Newcastle (110); Northampton 1 Website: www.busybees.com Eastbourne (100); East Kilbride (104), Northampton 2 (111), Brooklands Group directors: Margaret (87); East Malling, Kent (84); Northampton 3 (92); Childcare Randles, John Woodward, Edinburgh 1 (58), Edinburgh 2 Northwich, Cheshire (107); Head office: 137b Market Street, Simon Irons, Clare Phizacklea, (93), Edinburgh 3 (90); Norwich: Norfolk and Norwich Hindley, Wigan WN2 3AA Sarah Beene, Steve Eccleston, Evesham, Worcs (110); University Hospital (114), Tel: 01942 760044 Cheryl Creaser, Keelie Leahy Farnborough 1, Hants (159), Norwich 2 (112), Norwich 3 (112), Email: hindley2@ and Louise Copson Farnborough 2 (96); Formby, Norwich 4 (72); Nottingham: brooklandschildcare.co.uk Established: 1983 Merseyside (66); Gillingham 1, City Hospital (114), Clifton (55), Website: www.brooklands Owns and manages 238 Kent (112), Gillingham 2 (111); Daybrook (120), Long Eaton childcare.co.uk nurseries and crèches: Glasgow 1 (83), Glasgow 2 (91), (113), Southwell (48), University Owners: Ivan Rawlins, Altrincham, Greater Manchester Glasgow 3 (59); Glenrothes, Fife of Nottingham (96), Wollaton Linda Rawlins (97); Ashford 1, Kent (87), (103); Godalming 1, Surrey (91), (96); Oxford (110); Perivale, Established: 1990 Ashford 2 (108), Ashford 3 Godalming 2 (140); Gravesend, Middlesex (76); Peterborough, Owns 5 nurseries: Ashton-in- (109); Ayr (81); Basingstoke 1, Essex (116); Great Yarmouth, Cambs (104); Petworth, W Makerfield (121), Garswood Hants (98), Basingstoke 2 Norfolk (71); Guildford, Surrey Sussex (51); Petworth (51); (94), Hindley 1 (89), Hindley 2 (100), Basingstoke 3 (115); (86); Hadlow, Kent (60); Plymouth, Devon (57); (134), Leigh (46) – all in Lancs Bedford 1 (100), Bedford 2 (112); Harlow, Essex (105); Harpenden Portsmouth, Hants (126); Places: 484 Beverley, E Yorks (108); Bicester, 1, Herts (64), Harpenden 2 (55); Preston 1, Lancs (161), Employees: 144 Oxon (108); Birmingham: Aston Haslemere, Surrey (88); Preston 2 (136), Preston 3 (77), Edgbaston (116), Haywards Heath, W Sussex (39), Preston 4 (30), Preston 5 Brown Bear Longbridge (60), Queen (72); Heathrow (100); (57), Preston 6 (60); Childcare Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham Hempstead, Kent (100); Quedgeley, Glos (106); Head office: 18 Douglas Road, NHS Foundation Trust (133); Hertford (44); High Wycombe, Rainham, Kent (81); Reading 1 Hazel Grove, Stockport SK7 4JE Bishops Stortford 1, Herts (55), Bucks (91); Holmes Chapel (109), Reading 2 (93); Reigate, Tel: 0161 483 7369 Bishops Stortford 2 (80); (105); Horsham, W Sussex Surrey (98); Rotherham, S Directors: Renee Dickens, Blaydon on Tyne (67); Braintree (124); Hove, E Sussex (79); Yorks (74); Rugby, Warks (84); Wendy Hartley 1, Essex (84), Braintree 2 (100); Hull (60); Huntingdon, Cambs Sale, Greater Manchester (66); Established: 2002 Bridgend (108); Brighton (94); (100); Inverness (82); Ipswich 1, Salisbury, Wilts (93); Sandbach, Owns 4 nurseries: Stockport, Bristol: Barrs Court (116), Suffolk (94), Ipswich 2 (105); Cheshire (62); Shenley, Herts Greater Manchester: Bredbury Bradley Stoke (100), Emersons Kettering, Northants (112); (110); Shrewsbury, Shropshire (37), Brinnington (28), Great Green (105), Portishead (91), Lancaster (151); Leamington (119); Sittingbourne, Kent (77); Moor(42), Reddish (60) Stoke Gifford (108); Spa, Warks (122); Leeds 1 (175), Solihull 1, W Midlands (100), Places: 149 Bromborough, Wirral (105); Leeds 2 (100); Leicester 1 (130), Solihull 2 (90); Southport, Employees: 36 Bromsgrove, Warks (86); Leicester 2 (103), Leicester 3 Lancs (111); St Albans 1, Herts Brough, E Yorks (110); (44), Leicester 4 (110); (65), St Albans 2 (50), St Bush Babies Burntwood, Staffs (111); Letchworth, Herts (104); Albans 3 (120), St Albans Children’s Nurseries Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs Lewes, E Sussex (51); City Hospital (51); Stevenage 1, Head office: 170 Lutterworth (108); Bury St Edmonds, West Lightwater, Surrey (50); Herts (98), Stevenage 2 (112); Road, Blaby, Leicestershire Suffolk Hospital (96); Liverpool (55); Livingston 1, Stockton-on-Tees (84); LE8 4DP Camberley, Surrey (91); W Lothian (92), Livingston 2 Stowmarket, Suffolk (106); Tel: 0116 2774088 Canterbury, Kent (79); Cardiff 1 (106); London: Bexley Heath Sudbury Hill, Middlesex (99); Email: bboffice@ (66), Cardiff 2 (100); (100), Chingford (108), Sunderland 1 (130), Sunderland bushbabiesnurseries.co.uk Carshalton, Surrey (98); Chiswick (78), Enfield (120), 2 (90), Sunderland 3 (99), Director: Jane Brailsford Chandlers Ford, Hants (116); Greenwich (51), Hammersmith Sunderland 4 (82); Swindon 1 Established: 1992 Chatham, Kent (78); Cheadle 1, (56), Ilford (124), Leytonstone (72), Swindon 2 (100), Owns 7 nurseries: Blaby (60), Cheshire (67), Cheadle 2 (116); (100), Lewisham (65), Swindon 3 (106); Telford 1, Countesthorpe (54), Glen Parva Cheam, Surrey (88); Mill Hill (78), Royal Victoria Shropshire (108), Telford 2 (75), Leicester (54), Oadby (54), Chelmsford, Essex (99); Docks (107), Walthamstow (45); Thames Ditton, Surrey Thurmaston (86), Wigston Cheltenham, Glos (64); (140), Wandsworth (86), (89); Thetford, Norfolk (73); Magna (54) – all in Leicestershire Chippenham, Wilts (106); Westminster (74); Thurrock 1, Essex (98), Places: 437 Chislehurst, Kent (100); Chorley Loughborough (40); Thurrock 2 (92); Trowbridge, Employees: 110 1, Lancs (147), Chorley 2 (60); Maidenhead, Berks College of Wilts (100); Tunbridge Wells, Plans: Controlled expansion Colchester 1, Essex (84), Agriculture (82); Maidstone 1 Kent (90); Uxbridge, Hillingdon programme. Colchester 2 (139); Corby, (112), Maidstone 2 (50), Hospital, Middlesex (114); Northants (85); Coventry 1, Maidstone 3 (30), Maidstone 4 Walsall, W Midlands (25); THE Busy Bees GROUP Walsgrave Hospital, Warks (117), (47); Manchester: Fallowfield Wakefield, W Yorks (112); Operating under the Busy Bees, Coventry 2 (50), Coventry 3 (84), Salford University (104); Warndon, Worcs (104); Watford Careshare, Caring Daycare (46); Crawley, W Sussex (132); Market Harborough, Leics (118); General Hospital, Herts (46); (acquired 2014), Kinder Croydon, Surrey (112); Melrose, Scottish Borders (75); Wellingborough, Northants Nurseries (acquired 2014), Darlington, Co Durham (89); Meopham, Kent (104); (100); Welwyn, Herts (46);

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Welwyn Garden City, Herts (74); Peter, Bucks (48); London and (72); Peterborough Business Northampton (55); Walsall, Weston-super-Mare (92); the south east: Acton (41), Park, Cambs (112); Stratford- W Midlands (50) Weymouth, Dorset (52); Brentford (52), Chiswick 1 (31), upon-Avon, Warks (55); Places: 275 Wigan 1 (76), Wigan 2 (101); Chiswick 2, Homefields (31), Wellingborough, Northants (120) Employees: 120 Woking 1, Surrey (117), Woking 2 Ealing (60), Isleworth (52), Places: 553 (60), Woking 3 (85); Worthing, Teddington (31) Employees: 117 Chapter one W Sussex (69); York (120) Places: 346 childcare 2 children’s centres: Employees: 95 Carousel Nurseries Head office: Campend Farm, Godalming, Woking; 8 after- Head office: Glenfield House, Old Dalkeith Road, Dalkeith school schemes: Burntwood; Buttons day 69 Glasgow Road, Dumbarton EH22 1RS Chorley; Farnborough; nursery schools G82 1RE Tel: 0845 1771008 Lancaster; Leeds; Preston; St Head office: 99 Oaklands Road, Tel: 01389 763763 Email: info@ David’s; Southport; and 1 Hanwell, London W7 2DT Fax: 01389 730469 chapteronechildcare.com independent school: Meredale Tel: 020 8840 3355 Directors: Anne Jenkins, Website: www. Independent School, Rainham Email: buttonsnurseries@ Claire Rowan chapteronechildcare.com & Places: 21,735 gmail.com Email: carouselnursery@ www.chapteronetreetops.com Employees: 8,000 Website: www.buttons aol.com Owners: Diane Gillam, Jon Gillam daynursery.co.uk Website: www.carousel Established: 2004 Busy Nought to Fives Proprietors: EduCo nurseries.co.uk Owns 5 nurseries: Edinburgh: Head office: 10 Brimstage Road, Established: 2001 Established: 1995 Kirk Brae (36), Douglas Gardens Gayton, Wirral CH60 1XG Owns 4 nurseries: Owns 3 nurseries: Alexandria (12), Shawfair (56), Treetops Tel: 0151 342 2714 Bournemouth, Dorset (90); (73), Clyde (56) – both in Argyll Outdoor Nursery (20); Farnley, N Email: [email protected] London: Hampton (52), and Bute; Dumbarton, W Yorks (19) Website: www.busy05.co.uk Hanwell (77), Teddington (58) Dunbartonshire (75). 1 out-of- Places: 213 Directors: Emma Collins, Places: 277 school club: Dumbarton (54) Employees: 54 Kevin Collins Employees: 70 Places: 204 Plans: Opening a new nursery Established: 1992 Employees: 106 in late 2015 - Dalkeith Country Owns 7 nurseries: Liverpool 1 Caring Park (70) (84), Liverpool 2 (63); Preston, Kindergartens Catherine House Day Lancs (64); South Wirral (102); Head office: 2 Ferro Fields, Nursery Schools *Cheeky Monkeys Day Warrington 1, Cheshire (129), Brixworth, Northants Head office: 9 St Agnes Road, Nursery & Pre schools Warrington 2 (119); Wirral (84) NN6 9UA Moseley, Birmingham B13 9PH Head office: c/o The Essex Golf Places: 645 Tel: 01604 882241 Tel: 0121 449 1444 & Country Club, Earls Colne , Employees: 150 Fax: 01604 882233 Fax: 0121 449 1440 Colchester, Essex CO6 2NS Plans: Seeking sites for Email: mail@caring Email: info@catherinehouse Tel: 01787 221102 expansion throughout UK. kindergartens.co.uk daynursery.com Email: info@cheeky Website: www.caring Website: www.catherine monkeysessex.co.uk Buttercups kindergartens.co.uk housedaynursery.com Website: www.cheeky Head office: 9 Florence Road, Proprietor: George Wright Directors: Rita Howe-Douglas, monkeyessex.co.uk Ealing, London W5 3TU Established: 1992 Matthew Poray Directors: Helen Palmer, Tel: 020 8840 4838 Owns 6 nurseries: Daventry Established: 1987 Stephen Hall Director: Carol Whitehouse (90), Duston (104) – both in Owns 5 nurseries: Birmingham: Established: 2002 Established: 1980 Northants; Moulton Park Moseley (60), Northfield (40); Owns 3 nurseries: Colchester 1 Owns 8 nurseries: Chalfont St Industrial Estate, Northampton Brockley, London (70); - Earls Colne (66), Colchester 2 (66), Colchester 3 (26) Places: 158 Employees: 45 Out of school: School drop-offs, collection and school holiday club services for children up to the age of 8. Plans: Looking to expand within Colchester.

Cherry Childcare Head office: Frimley Road, Ash Vale, Surrey GU12 5NZ Tel: 01252 546190 Chairman: Nigel Rolfe Directors: Trisha Fisher, Rachael Wolfenden, Zoe Rolfe Email: info@cherry childcare.co.uk Website: www.cherry childcare.co.uk Established: 1993

28 Nursery Chains autumn 2015 www.nurseryworld.co.uk Owns 10 nurseries: Addlestone, Places: 644 Banbury 1, Oxon (75), Banbury 2 (83); Luton, Beds – Luton and Surrey (106); Ash Vale, Hants Employees: 160 (50); Bicester, Oxon (116); Dunstable Hospital (94); (120); Epsom, Surrey (90); Plans: Opening a new-build Moulton, Northants (126); Maidenhead, Berks (79); Hayling Island, Hants (30); nursery in spring 2016. Welbeck Abbey, Marlow, Bucks (43); Milton High Wycombe, Bucks (62); Nottinghamshire (90) Keynes, Bucks (83); Newbury, Langstone, Hants (50); Pirbright, Chestnut Nursery Places: 652 Berks (64); Newport Pagnell, Surrey (73); Sandhurst, Berks schools Employees: 187 Bucks (64); Northampton – (48); Stoneleigh, Surrey (94); Head office: 177 Earlham Grove, Northampton General Hospital Weybridge, Surrey (30) London E7 9AP *Child’s Play (102); Nottingham (88); Places: 703 Tel: 020 8555 9800 Head office: Moorevilla, Orpington, Kent (130); Oxford: Employees: 200 Email: earlham@ Midgeland Road, Blackpool, Churchill Hospital (125), John chestnut-nursery.co.uk Lancashire FY4 5HJ Radcliffe Hospital (124); Purley, Cherry trees Website: www.chestnut- Tel: 01253 760610 Surrey (66); Reading, Berks children’s nurseries nursery.co.uk Email: info@ (116); Sandhurst, Berks (88); Head office: 3 Abbey Road, Directors: David Saunders, childsplayblackpool.co.uk St Albans (46); Staines, Surrey Dunbar, East Lothian EH42 1JP Steven Davies, Karen Broughton Website: www. (133); Swindon, Wilts (114); Tel: 01368 860555 Established: 2002 childsplayblackpool.co.uk Twyford, Berks (104); Welwyn Email: [email protected] Owns 12 nurseries: Cambridge Directors: David Sloane, Garden City, Herts 1 (75), Website: www.cherry (60); London: Barking 1 (66), Sarah Sloane Welwyn Garden City 2 – QEII treenurseries.co.uk Barking 2 (52), Beckton (28), Established: 2001 Hospital (81); Winchester, Directors: Lisa Bennet, Stewart Brixton (67), Dagenham (54), Owns 5 nurseries: Blackpool Hants 1 (68), Winchester 2 – Bennet and David Robertson Forest Gate 1 (55), Forest Gate 2 North (80), Blackpool Marton University College (124) Established: 2000 (68), Forest Gate 3 (20), Manor (60), Blackpool Central (60), Places: 3,979 Owns 4 nurseries: Dunbar, Park (26), North Woolwich (57), Blackpool South 1 (60), Employees: 1,483 E Lothian (83); Edinburgh (116); Plaistow (39) Blackpool South 2 (120) Hawick (64), Melrose (83) – Places: 592 Places: 380 Childcare both in Scottish Borders Employees: 120 Employees: 115 and Learning group Places: 346 Plans: Looking to expand Operating under the Cranbrook, Employees: 90 within London. ChildBase Castle, Working Mums and partnership South West London Nursery Cherub Nurseries Child Centred Head office: Kingston House, Co brands and Pre-schools Nurseries Northampton Road, Newport Head office: The Old Post Head office: Lindsey Place, Head office: Highwood House, Pagnell, Bucks MK16 8NJ Office, Antlands Lane East, Anlaby Road, Hull HU4 6AJ Maldon Road, Hatfield Peverel, Tel: 01908 211699 Horley, Surrey RH6 9TE Tel: 01482 509598 Chelmsford, Essex CM3 2JP Email: [email protected] Tel: 01293 772561 Email: anlaby-manager@ Tel: 01245 382582 Website: www.childbase Fax: 01293 772971 cherubnurseries.com Fax: 01245 382581 partnership.com Director: Robert Shannon Website: www.cherub Email: info@childcentred Established: 1989 Established: 1983 nurseries.com nurseries.co.uk Directors: Michael Thompson Owns 15 nurseries: Crawley, Proprietor: Beaconhouse Group Website: www.childcentred (chief executive), Lynda West Sussex (84); Guildford, Established: 1976 nurseries.co.uk Gostelow (commercial director), Surrey 1 (80), Guildford 2 (39); Owns 3 nurseries: Beverley, Directors: Stephen Field, Emma Rooney (operations Haywards Heath, West Sussex E Yorks (73); Hull: Anlaby Road Melanie Field director), Geoff Hiskett (56); Horley, Surrey 1 (50), (125), Leads Road (67) Established: 1995 (finance director) Horley 2 (36), Horley 3 (72); Places: 265 Owns 6 nurseries: Colchester 1, Operates 46 nurseries: London: Clapham 1 (86), Employees: 53 (88), Colchester 2 (48), Aylesbury, Bucks 1 – Stoke Clapham 2 (66), East Sheen Colchester 3 (46), Hatfield Mandeville Hospital (101), (77), Fulham 1 (45), Fulham 2 The Cheshire Peverel (60), Kelvedon (58), Aylesbury, Bucks 2 (73); Barnet, (74), Hammersmith (84), Day Nursery Group Witham (49) – all in Essex Herts (60); Bath, Somerset Mortlake (54); Shamley Green, Head office: Winwick Places: 349 (94); Bedford (108); Surrey (39) Hollins Drive, Winwick, Employees: 126 Birmingham 1 (35), Birmingham 2 after-school clubs: Cheshire WA2 8RS Plans: To develop existing 2 (94), Birmingham 3 (46); Crawley, W Sussex (32); Horley, Tel: 01925 655498 nurseries and look at potential Buckingham (70); Cambridge: Surrey (36) Email: cheshiredaynursery@ for new-build and acquisition. University of Cambridge 1 (100), Places: 942 btconnect.com University of Cambridge 2 (60); Employees: 284 Website: www. Child First Chobham, Surrey (113); Coventry, thecheshiredaynursery.co.uk Central office: Fafunia and the Warks (70); Cranfield, Beds, Childcare (east Directors: Julie Mannering, New Factory Cranfield University (53); midlands) Brenda Burling Tel: 07831 635802 Finchampstead, Berks (71); Operates under five brands, Established: 1999 Email: [email protected] Hemel Hempstead, Herts (92); including Cherubs Day Owns 7 nurseries: Ellesmere Website: www.childfirst.co.uk Hitchin, Herts (83); Hertford Nurseries, Longdale Nursery Port (125), Uttoxeter (77), Director: Tom Shea (70); Kettering, Northants (88); School and Children’s Centre, Warrington 1 (31), Warrington 2 Established: January 2007 Leamington Spa, Warks (114); Busy Bee Day Nursery, Step (116), Warrington 3 (80), Owns and manages Leighton Buzzard, Beds (99); Ahead Kids’ Club and Saville Warrington 4 (78), Warrington 5 7 nurseries: Aylesbury 1, Bucks London: Chiswick (88), House School. (137) – all in Cheshire (95), Aylesbury 2 (100); Southall (103), Winchmore Hill Head office: Childcare East

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Midlands, Welbeck Road, Founder & executive chair: Children’s Place Places: 556 Mansfield Woodhouse, Margaret Mason day nurseries Employees: 193 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Co-founder: Hugh Mason Head office: 1 Hind Street, Plans: To increase number of NG19 9LA Director: Adrian Mason, Cathy Wyke, Bradford BD12 8JT nurseries in next three years. Tel: 01623 420940 Griffin, Julia Mason (operations) Tel: : 01274 601575 Managing director: Susan Mills Established: 1988 Email: office@ complete childcare Director: Robert Everist Owns 18 nurseries: Chesterfield childrens-place.co.uk group Operations Manager: 1 (60), Chesterfield 2 (136); Website: www. Head office: Unit 1B, Kingfisher Sarah Savage Clowne, Derbyshire (120); childrens-place.co.uk Court, Hambridge Road, Established: 1993 Grantham, Lincolnshire (112); Directors: Debbie Burke, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 5SJ Owns 10 nurseries: Kimberley Leicester (96); Lincoln 1(96), David Burke Tel/Fax: 01635 262271 (90), Mansfield 1 (63), Lincoln 2 (96), Lincoln 3 (90); Established: 1991 Email: enquiries@ Mansfield 2 (55), Mansfield 3 Nottingham 1 (120), Nottingham Owns and manages 12 completechildcare.co.uk (50), Mansfield Woodhouse 2 (52), Nottingham 3 (90) nurseries: Bradford: Barkerend Website: www. (147), Ravenshead (120), Ryton Nottingham 4 (96), Nottingham (61), Burnett Fields (50), completechildcare.co.uk Park (55), South Normanton 5 (120); Newark, Notts (80); Daisy Hill (56), Great Horton Directors: Alec Hodson, (52) – all in Notts; Nottingham: Sheffield, S Yorks (145); (24), Heaton (51), Mayfield Phil Hennessy, Jonathan Boss Bulwell 1 (80), Bulwell 2 (80) Loughborough, Leicestershire (40), Owlet (70), St James Established: 1986 1 preparatory school: Saville (96); Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs 1 (40); Dewsbury (51); Owns 10 nurseries: Arborfield House Prep School (140), Stoke-on-Trent 2 (96) Halifax (59); Huddersfield (91), Bracknell (95), Places: 792 Places: 1,841 (53); Ravensthorpe (66) Finchampstead (33), Newbury 5 out-of-school playschemes Employees: 590 – all in W Yorks (70), Reading 1 (47), Reading 2 operated by Step Ahead Kids’ Places: 621 (60), Wokingham 1 (24), Clubs: Mansfield Woodhouse, Children 4 most Employees: 200 Wokingham 2 (59), Winnersh Vale View, Bulwell, Kimberley, Head office: Children 4 Most (83) – all in Berks; Banbury, Wynndale, Ravenshead at Squirrels Wood, Cemetery Christopher Robin Oxon (80) Employees: 240 Road Audenshaw, Manchester Day Nurseries Places: 642 Plans: In negotiations for M34 5AH Head office: Elmdon House, Employees: 180 other nurseries in the Tel: 0161 336 3221 116 London Road, Guildford Plans: To extend existing Nottingham/Mansfield/ Email: info@children GU1 1TN number of registrations and Derby/Lincoln areas. Looking 4most.co.uk Tel: 01483 452554 expand geographical coverage to expand the Step Ahead Website: www.children Website: www.daynurseries further into Berks and Oxon. Kids’ Club brand throughout 4most.co.uk surrey.co.uk Nottinghamshire. Owners: Nicola Sullivan, Director: Penny Owen the Co-operative Alison Davies Established: 1986 Childcare Childcare Scotland Established: 2000 Owns 5 nurseries: Cranleigh, Head office: Co-operative Head office: Burnside House, Owns 3 nurseries: Ashton- Surrey (44); Guildford, Surrey: House, Warwick Technology Kilwinning Road, Irvine under-Lyne, Greater Manchester Burpham (52), London Road Park, Warwick CV34 6DA KA12 8RU (36); Audenshaw, G Manchester (62), Wood Street Village (46); Tel: 0800 954 0669 Tel: 01294 277950 (95); Hyde, Cheshire (76) Woking, Surrey (60). Also Email: [email protected] Directors: Meg McLeod, Les Places: 197 operates children’s centre at Website: www.thecooperative Macleod, Yvonne McDowall Employees: 90 Cranleigh (community services childcare.coop Email: [email protected] for families and young children) Group manager: Mike Abbott Website: www.childcare Children’s Corner Places: 264 Established: 2003 scotlandnurseries.com Childcare Employees: 102 Owns 47 nurseries: Bristol (84); Established: 1989 Head office: Springbank School, Burnley General Hospital, Lancs Owns 9 nurseries: Aberdeen Wesley Street, Farsley, Leeds clear day nurseries (51); Burton, Staffs (58); (108); Edinburgh (105); Falkirk LS28 5LE Head office: Clear Day Nurseries, Cainscross, Stroud (61), Cam, (68); Glasgow: Caledonian Tel: 0113 257 7868 157-173 Roden Street, Belfast, Dursley (48) – both in Glos; University (59), Glasgow Email: la.dawson@ Northern Ireland BT12 5QA Carterton, Oxon (90); University (79), Strathclyde btinternet.com Tel: 02890 419199 Chichester, W Sussex (60); University (56); Irvine, Ayrshire Directors: Lesley Dawson, Email: audrey@clearday Dewsbury, W Yorks (49); (142); Kilmarnock, Ayrshire Allan Dawson nurseries.com Kidderminster, Worcs (117); (119); Largs, Ayrshire (36) Established: 1998 Website: www.clearday Leamington Spa, Warks: Grove Places: 772 Owns 5 nurseries: Leeds: nurseries.com Street (140), Spencer Street Employees: 190 Farsley (46, plus 24 out-of- Owner: Colin Johnston (58); Littlehampton, W Sussex school), Granary Wharf (27), Operations director: Audrey (113); London: Bounds Green *Children 1st Headingley (20), Moorlands McCracken (83), Charlton (62), Croydon, Head office: Mayfield, 1 (27), Valley View (46, plus Established: 2005 Mayday Hospital NHS Trust Nottingham Road, Long Eaton, 40 out-of-school) Owns 6 nurseries: Belfast: (65), Croydon, New Addington Nottingham NG10 1HQ 3 out-of-school play schemes: Dundonald (96), Ulsterville (84), Hackney (44), Heathrow Tel: 0800 6521052 The Grammar School , Wigton Avenue (83); Dollingstown, (40), Hounslow (90), Islington Email: enquiry.children1st@ Moor Primary School and Co Down (72); Glengormley, (96), Maida Vale (109), breedonhouse.co.uk Chapel Allerton Newtownabbey, Co Antrim Waterloo (60), Wimbledon (57), Website: www.children1st Places: 166 (140); Portadown, Co Woolwich (52); Madley Park, daynurseries.com Employees: 110 Armagh (54), Bangor (100) Oxon (70); Maidenhead, Berks

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(84); Wythenshawe, Director: Lorraine Darlington Tel: 0113 2857000 Earlyworld Manchester (100); Newcastle 1 Established: 1989 Email: info@daisychain Childcare (116), Newcastle 2 (108), Owns/manages 5 nurseries: childcare.com Head office: Darwin Court, Oxon Newcastle 3 (63); Oxford: Bury, Lancs: Fairfield General Website: www.daisychain Business Park, Welshpool Road, Blackbird Leys (72), John Hospital (68), Woodfields (60); childcare.com Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY3 5AL Radcliffe Hospital (96), Oxford Rochdale: Hopwood Hall Directors: Jo Gomersall, Tel: 01743 244600 (62), Rose Hill (61); Poole, College (60, plus 50-place Helen Somers Website: www.earlyworld.co.uk Dorset (59); Reading, Berks holiday playscheme), Newbold Established: 2001 Managing director: (78); Southampton, Hants (46), Sandbrook (60) Owns 4 nurseries: Leeds: Adel Paul Edwards (100); Sutton, Surrey (66); Places: 294 (54), Middleton (52), Rothwell Established: 1995 Sussex University Nursery and Employees: 72 (50); Wakefield (52) Owns 3 nurseries: Pre-School (71); Swindon, Wilts: Places: 208 Shrewsbury (126), Telford 1 Great Western Hospital (101), Crystal Childcare Employees: 61, and 12 bank staff (115), Telford 2 (130) – all Walcot (61); Tadworth, Surrey Head office: 202 Venner Road, in Shropshire (56); Walsall Wood, W Midlands Sydenham, London SE26 5HT DAvidson Roberts Owns 4 out-of-school clubs: (50); Watford, Herts (55), Tel: 020 8659 6417 Head office: Manor Farm, 76 Chester, Cheshire (72); Eynsham, Watford South Oxhey (60); Email: cdn@crystalchildcare. London Road, Sandy, Oxon (72); Shrewsbury (74), Wolverhampton 1, W Midlands co.uk Bedfordshire SG19 1DZ Telford (74) – both in Shropshire (48), Wolverhampton 2 (91) Website: www.crystal Tel: 01767 688713 Places: 371 Places: 3,499 childcare.co.uk Email: info@ Employees: 157 Employees: 1,200 Directors: Lorraine Duffy, davidson-roberts.co.uk Plans: Looking at new Paul Duffy Website: www.davidson- Eaton Square opportunities in 2016 Established: 1988 roberts.co.uk Schools Owns 3 nurseries: London: Director: Jane Roberts Head office: 79 Eccleston Countryside Anerley (59), Sydenham (30), Established: 2006 Square, London SW1V 1PP Nurseries Upper Norwood (20) Owns 7 nurseries: Buckden (70), Tel: 020 7931 9469 Head office: Tythe Barn, Places: 109 Gamlingay (35), Ramsey (60) Fax: 020 7828 0164 Dean Lane, Cookham Dean, Employees: 40 – all in Cambs; Rushden, Email: nursery@ Berks SL6 9BB Northants (70); Sandy, Beds eatonsquareschool.com Tel: 01628 476153 cybertots (77); Royston, Herts (60); Website: www.eaton Fax: 01628 487019 Head office: 38 Heathfield Flitwick, Beds (85) squareschool.com Email: enquiries@ Road, London W3 8EJ 4 out of school clubs: Headmaster: Sebastian Hepher countrysidenurseries.co.uk Tel: 020 8560 5821 Gamlingay, Little Paxton, Established: 1981 Director: Angela Palmer-Moore Email: [email protected] Ramsey – all in Cambs; Owns 4 nursery schools: Established: 1991 Website: www.cybertots.co.uk Rushden, Northants London: Belgravia (40), Owns 8 nurseries: Ascot, Berks Directors: Nina Ozols, Katya 3 holiday clubs: Huntingdon, St Knightsbridge (32), Pimlico (38); Burnham, Bucks (35); Ozols, Irena Mailer Ives, St Neots – all in Cambs (32); Twickenham Park, Cookham Dean, Berks (38); Established: 1998 Places: 457 Middlesex (60) Flackwell Heath 1, Bucks (33), Owns 5 nurseries: London: Employees: 158 Places: 164 Flackwell Heath 2 (25); Acton (27), Brentford (120), Plans: To increase provision of Employees: 40 Henley-on-Thames, Oxon (75); Hanwell (37), Northolt (20), nursery and OSC places. Sunninghill, Berks (42); Windsor, West Ealing (58) The Edinburgh Berks (50) Places: 262 Dizzy ducks Nursery Places: 335 Employees: 114 Head office: The Farmhouse, Head office: 127 Broughton Employees: 110 Steeple View Farm, Dunton Road, Edinburgh EH7 4JH DAISY AND JAKE Road, Laindon, Basildon, Essex Tel: 0131 557 5675 Cranley nurseries DAY NURSERY SS15 4DB Email: edinburghnursery@ Head office: 226 Braid Road, Head office: 349 Pensby Road, Tel: 01268 545 904 btconnect.com Edinburgh EH10 6NZ Pensby, Wirral CH61 9NL Email: sian.nisbett@ Website: www.edinburgh Tel: 0131 445 2227 Tel: 0151 648 9131 dizzyducks.co.uk nursery.com Email: enquiries@ Email: info@daisyand Website: www.dizzyducks.co.uk Director: Karen Fairlamb cranleynurseries.co.uk jakedaynursery.co.uk Director/owner: Sian Nisbett Established: 1986 Owner: Anna Maclean Website: www.daisyand Established: 2005 Owns/manages 5 nurseries: Group director: Karen Murray jakedaynursery.co.uk Owns 5 nurseries: Billericay 1 Edinburgh: Beaverhall Road 1 (50), Established: 2000 Managing director: Lisa Collins (30), Billericay 2 (91), Hainault Beaverhall Road 2 (18), Broughton Owns 4 nurseries: Edinburgh: Established: 2005 (80), Harlow (44) – all in Essex; Road (27), Broughton Street (9), Buckstone (71), Colinton (25), Owns 5 nurseries: Irby (95), Haverhill, Suffolk (100) East London Street (18) Craiglockhart (57), Lanark Moreton (105), Prenton (100), Places: 345 Places: 138 Road (64) Spital (134), Upton (110) – all in Employees: 150 Employees: 30 Places: 217 Wirral, Merseyside Out of school: Billericay Places: 544 (out-of-school and holiday enchanted forest Crèche-n-Co Employees: 170 club), Hainault (holiday club), nurseries Head office: Office 32, Haverhill (out-of-school and Head office: Orion House, Arrowmill, Rochdale OL11 2YW DAISY Chain ChildCare holiday club). 7 Robroystone Oval, Robroyston Tel: 01706 641781 Head office: 2a Tile Lane, Plans: Looking for opportunities Business Park, Robroyston Email: crè[email protected] Adel, Leeds LS16 8DY in London/south east. 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32 Nursery chains Autumn 2015 www.nurseryworld.co.uk Tel: 01475 745794 Owns 4 nurseries: Manchester: Email: info@enchanted Bredbury (90), Irlam (120), forestnursery.co.uk Stretford (70), Worsley (120) Website: www.enchanted 2 out-of-school clubs: Worsley forestnursery.co.uk and Irlam Directors: Mariessa Devlin, Places: 400 Bernie Devlin Employees: 142 Established: 2006 Owns 5 nurseries: Erskine (63), Flying Start Greenock (75), Inverkip (76), Head office: Penweeth, Robroyston (81), Thornliebank 1 Trelawney Road, Camborne, (103) – all in Renfrewshire Cornwall TR14 7LN Places: 398 Tel: 01209 611811 Employees: 107 Website: www.flying start.uk.com The Eveline Day and Owner: Sharon Cowburn Nursery Schools Established: 1993 Head office: 30 Ritherdon Road, Owns 8 nurseries: Camborne Tooting Bec, London SW17 8QD (30), Duchy College, Callington Tel: 020 8672 7549 (25), Helston (55), Penryn (86), Established: 1964 Redruth 1 (36), Redruth 2, Directors: Maria Keaveney- Cornwall College (96), Jessiman, Alfred Clifford Saltash (64) – all in Cornwall; Jessiman, Eveline Drut, Plymouth, Devon (56) Gordon Jessiman Places: 448 Owns 6 nurseries: Employees: 120 London: Raynes Park (57), Tooting (50), Tooting Bec (36), Tooting *Footsteps Day Broadway (41), Wandsworth (63), Nurseries Wimbledon (50) Tel: 020 8770 3222 in Lancs; Halifax (92), Harrogate Head office: The Dairy Barn, Owns 1 prep school: Tooting Email: admissions@ (80), Idle, Bradford (66), Yeadon, Mile Oak Farm, Plantation Lane, Bec (100) fennies.com Leeds (65) – all in W Yorks Tamworth, Staffs B78 3DQ Places: 297 Website: www.fennies.co.uk Places: 580 Tel: 01827 268 082 Employees: 200 Directors: Sarah Fenn, Employees: 155 Email: info@ Steven Fenn (chief executive), footstepsnurseries.co.uk EVOLUTION CHILDCARE John Warren (childcare), first steps Website: www.footsteps Head office: Grimsditch House, Chris Foot (financial) Head office: Rathvilly School, nurseries.co.uk Grimsditch Lane, Lower Whitley, Established: 1992 119 Bunbury Road, Northfield, Directors: Gavin Harvey, Warrington WA4 4ED Owns 8 nurseries: Beckenham, Birmingham B31 2NB Catherine Harvey Tel: 01925 419911 (68), Bromley (94) – both in Tel: 0121 475 1509 Established: 2002 Website: www.evolution- Kent; London: Croydon (112), Email: rathvilly@firststeps Owns 8 nurseries: Cannock childcare.co.uk Purley (114), Sanderstead (44), childrensnursery.com (105), Canwell (40), Lichfield Proprietor: Sue Jones South Croydon (72); Horley Website: www.firststeps (59), Tamworth Dosthill (55), Established: 1999 (118), Epsom (142) – both Surrey childrensnursery.com Tamworth Lich Road (86), Owns 3 nurseries: Lower Whitley Places: 764 Established: 1992 Tamworth Fazeley (65), Walmley (100), Warrington 1 (80), Employees: 230 Directors: Debbi Gould and (78) – all in Staffs; Stratford- Warrington 2 (117) – all in Cheshire Plans: Expanding in 2016 with Andy Gould Upon-Avon, Warks (100) As part of franchise: Balham three new sites. Owns 4 nurseries: Birmingham: Out of school: Tamworth (50) (50); Cheltenham, Glos (66); Harbourne (60), Northfield Places: 588 Henley-on-Thames, Oxon (50) First Class Child Care (120), Selly Park (120); Ashton Employees: 195 As part of UAE franchise: Abu Head office: Central Support Court, Wolverhampton (50) Dhabi 1 (130), Abu Dhabi 2 – Office, Lancs House, The Places: 350 For Under Fives Etihad (80); Bahrain (100); Sidings, Whalley, Clitheroe, Employees: 98 Head office: 33 Abbey Road, Batteen (80); Dubai (120); Lancs BB7 9SE Grimsby, Lincs DN32 0HQ Mushrif (120) Tel: 01254 828161 Fledglings Tel: 01472 232300 Places: 463 Email: [email protected] Head office: 2 Hazelfields, Website: www.forunder Employees: 150 Website: www.fccc.co.uk Worsley, Manchester M28 2LS fives.co.uk Plans: To open 2 new nurseries Directors: Andrew Clifford Tel: 0161 281 2821 Directors: David Lang, in Cheshire and 3 franchises in (managing director), Emma Fax: 0161 281 2822 Steven Lampard Wolverhampton, Newcastle and Clifford (central support) Email: fledglings.hq@ General manager: Blackburn in 2016. Senior manager: Michelle ntlbusiness.com Amanda Gilbert Brown (EYPS) Website: www.fledglings Established: 1987 Fennies Established: 1984 nurseries.co.uk Owns 5 nurseries: Cottingham, Day Nurseries Owns 9 nurseries: Accrington Directors: Christopher Gray, Hull (50, plus 8 out-of-school); Head office: 1a Hook Road, (63), Clayton (48), Clitheroe (53), Michelle Smith, Jackie Kerr Grimsby, Lincs: Diana Princess Epsom, Surrey KT19 8TH Dill Hall (55), Whalley (58) – all Established: 1990 of Wales Hospital (55, plus 8

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out-of-school), Grimsby 2 (77); Tel: 00 1850 20 10 99 *Growing Places Directors: Jacqueline Gernon, Lincoln (64); Wath-upon- Email: [email protected] Head office: Growing Places Tony Gernon Dearne, S Yorks (120) Chairman: Tony Kilduff @ Mill Hill, Mill Road, Established: 1996 Manages 10 nurseries and (non-exec) Waterlooville, Hants PO7 7DB Owns 5 nurseries: children’s centres: Boston, Managing director: Email: admin@ Batley (80), Boroughbridge (45), Lincs (59); Goole, Yorks (48); Simon Dowling growingplaces.org.uk Harrogate (60), Scarborough Grimsby, Lincs: Broadway Finance director: Website: www.growing (95), York (92) – all in Yorks Children’s Centre Day Care (47), Siobhan Moore places.org.uk Places: 372 Central Children’s Centre Day Non-executive directors: CEO/Group manager: Employees: 95 Care (88), Franklin College (44), Maryann McCormack, Jackie Warren Plans: To open additional units Queensway Children’s Centre Tony McCormack Established: 2004 throughout Yorks over the next Day Care (42); Lincoln: Central Director of childcare: Owns 5 nurseries: Fareham five years. Children’s Centre Day Care (45), Dearhala Cox-Giffin (57), Havant (54), Purbrook County Hospital (42), Owns 21 nurseries: Greater (36), Waterlooville 1 (57), Happy kids childcare Welbourne Gardens (40); Selby, Dublin area: Adamstown (96), Waterlooville 2 (36) – all Hants Head office: 40 Barnsley N Yorks (53) Belermine (144), Out-of-school and holiday clubs: Road, Thorpe Hesley, Places: 874 Blanchardstown (96), Celbridge Cowplain, Emsworth, Fareham, Rotherham S61 2RR Employees: 360 (130), Central Park (58), Purbrook and Waterlooville Email: info@happykids- Plans: To increase places at Clonsilla (120), Elm Park (79), Places: 240 childcare.co.uk our central children’s centre in Grifeen (96), Harcourt Road Employees: 96 Website: www.happykids- Grimsby from 44 to 80 to (120), Irish Financial Services childcare.co.uk enable us to offer places for Centre (96), Leopardstown Happy Days Nurseries Directors: Steve Scott, two-year-olds. (106), Liffey Valley (110), Head office: Chapel Town, Mark Kingston, Debbie Scott, Loughlinstown (185), Lucan Summercourt, Cornwall Michelle King FOUNDATIONS FOR (95), Milltown (116), National TR8 5YA Established: 2012 LEARNING College of Ireland (78), Navan Tel: 01872 511020/ Owns 11 nurseries: Barnsley, Head office: 46 Cumberland (85), Northern Cross (120), 0800 783 3431 S Yorks: Athersley (30), Drive, Esher, Surrey KT10 0BB Park West Business Park (120), Email: enquiries@ Cudworth (23), Goldthorpe Tel: 020 8398 1172 Rathbourne (130), happydaysnurseries.com (30), Grimethorpe (16), Website: www.foundations Rathfarnham (65) Website: www.happydays Kendray (16), Wombwell (40); forlearning.co.uk Places: 2,255 nurseries.com Manchester: Delamere Park Chairman: Michael Brandon Employees: 470 Directors: Jackie Arthur (20), Heybury Close (63); Established: 1998 (managing director) , Sarah Rotherham, S Yorks: Owns 5 nurseries: London: Gooseberry bush Karkeek (founding director) Clifton (39), East Dene (50); Newham 1 (79), Newham 2 (33); day nursery Conference and events Wakefield: Havercroft (40) Bury, Lancs 1 (99), Bury 2 (79), Head office: Kemble Enterprise manager: Jo Beighton Places: 367 Bury 3 (69) Park, Kemble, Wiltshire GL7 6BY Operations director: Employees: 77 Places: 359 Tel: 01285 771456 Kim Herbert Employees: 71 Email: Each nursery has Finance director: Ian Sanders Honeybuns Nursery own email (see website) Established: 1993 group Fran ‘n’ Bru Website: www.gooseberry Owns 16 nurseries: Bristol 1 Head office: Grainger Drive, (trading as little bushdaynursery.co.uk (100), Bristol 2 (82); Bodmin Leegomery, Talbot TF1 6UL unicorn day Proprietor: Claire Stringer (66), Falmouth (67), St Austell Tel: 01952 246 002 nurseries) Established: 2002 (67), St Blazey (54), St Minver Email: office@honeybuns Head office: 50 Bank Street, Owns 3 nurseries: Chippenham: (30), Summercourt (90), nurseries.co.uk Canary Wharf, London E14 5NS Azimghur Barracks (60), Treloggan (44), Treloweth (100), Website: www.honeybuns Tel: 020 7513 2954 Buckley Barracks (60); Kemble, Truro 1 (42), Truro 2 (71), Truro 3 nurseries.co.uk Principal/proprietor: Gloucestershire (70) (67), Truro Playbox (52) – all in Director: Alison Shipton Kate Williamson Places: 190 Cornwall; Derriford (146), Exeter Established: 2006 Established: 1997 Employees: 71 (78) – both in Devon Owns 3 nurseries: Owns 4 nurseries: London: Places: 1,156 Cannock Norton Canes (46), Bank Street (60), Canada Granby Nurseries Employees: 350 Stafford (59) – both in Staffs; Square (120), Columbus Head office: Granby House, Plans: To continue expanding in Telford, Shropshire (189) Courtyard (120) – closed until Aldwarke Road, Rotherham, the south west and increase the Places: 294 May/June 2016, Westferry S Yorks S62 6BU number of childcare places Employees: 88 Circus (32). Bank Street nursery Tel: 01709 710709 offered within the group, also offers emergency childcare. Fax: 01709 719180 supported by Livingbridge, a the honeytree Places: 332 Proprietors: Joanne Gray, private equity company. day nursery and Employees: 90 Cameron Gray pre-school Established: 1994 Happy Jays Nurseries Head office: Weston General Giraffe Childcare Owns 3 nurseries: Rotherham, and Childcare Centres Hospital Nursery, Grange Road, and Early Learning S Yorks: Parkgate (96), Head office: Lancaster Park, Uphill, Weston-super-Mare Centres Wickersley (41); Worksop, Audax Close, Clifton Moor, Tel: 01934 414471 Head office: Adamstown Notts (49) York YO30 4RA Director: Philip Weston Avenue, Castlegate, Places: 186 Tel: 01904 479261 Established: 1989 Adamstown, Co Dublin Employees: 90 Website: www.happyjays.co.uk Owns 3 nurseries: Bristol (60),

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Portishead (84), Weston Director: Freya Derrick Established: 1999 Chorley, Lancs (50); Ellesmere General Hospital (58) – all in Established: 2005 Owns 9 nurseries: London: Port, Cheshire (49); Glossop, Somerset Owns 4 nurseries: Botley, Acton (32), Acton Park (30), Derbyshire (54); Habergham, Places: 202 Southampton (100), Hanwell (35), Northolt (41), Lancs (48); Leeds (53); Little Employees: 50 Gosport (85), Lee on the Solent, Northwood (40), Perivale (20), Stanney, Cheshire (63); Gosport (83), Titchfield, Stanmore (37), West Twyford Runcorn, Cheshire (56); Sale, Hopscotch Nurseries Fareham (75) – all in Hants (40), Yeading (60) Greater Manchester (66); Head office: First Floor, 14 Places: 343 2 crèches: Northolt (12), Southport, Merseyside (67); Bavant Road, Brighton BN1 6RD Employees: 120 Northwood (27) Taporley, Cheshire (31); Widnes, Tel: 01273 385577 2 out-of-school clubs: Hanwell, Cheshire (70); Wirral, Fax: 01273 774154 Humpty dumpty Hathaway Primary School (26), Merseyside (61); Worsley, Email: office@ childcare Ruislip, Warrender Primary Greater Manchester (89) hopscotch.uk.com Head office: Brimhay, School (25) Places: 1,174 Website: www.hopscotch. Gidley’s Meadow, Dartington, 1 holiday club: New Denham, Employees: 317 uk.com Devon TQ9 6JZ Bucks (120) Plans: To open three nurseries Business development Tel: 01803 868168 Places: 525 by end of 2015 and 25 in 2016. director: Barbara Watson Email: [email protected] Employees: 120 Operations director: Jo Halling Website: www.humpty Plans: To open two new settings Kaleidoscope Established: 1988 dumptychildcareltd.co.uk in the next 12 months. Day Nurseries Owns 5 nurseries: Brighton Director: Connie Wilcocks Head office: Adwalton Court, (88), Hove 1 (92), Hove 2 (51), Established: 1989 Jancett childcare Hodgson Lane, Drighlington Peacehaven (60), Seaford Owns 3 nurseries: Dartington and JACE training/ BD11 1BJ (92, plus 1 out-of-school club) (69), Dartmouth (42), Newton jace catering and Tel: 0113 2852 572 – all in E Sussex Abbot (52) – all in Devon training Fax: 0113 2524 924 Places: 383 Places: 163 Head office: Jancett House, Email: headoffice@ Employees: 130 Employees: 30 16 Stanley Park Road, knurseries.com Plans: Looking to open nurseries Wallington, Surrey Website: www.knurseries.com Hopscotch in Kingsbridge and Ivybridge. SM6 OEU Directors: Jane Middlebrook, DAY Nurseries Tel: 020 8669 1725 Steve Middlebrook Head office: The Legion, Hungry Caterpillar Directors: Chris Pritchard, Established: 1990 13 The High Street, Lee on Day Nurseries John Pritchard, Tracy Owns 4 nurseries: Acomb, York; Solent, Gosport, Hants Head office: 2 Princess Lane, Pritchard-Drummond, (83) Leeds: Drighlington (116), PO13 9BS Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 8LG Kirsty Pritchard, Gildersome (48), Morley (82) Tel: 02392 545090 Tel: 01895 678682 Trevor Pritchard, Nicky Hopper, 3 out-of-school clubs: Acomb Email: lorna@ Email: info@hungry Stephen Drummond (32), Gildersome (32), Park hopscotchnursery.com caterpillars.co.uk Established: 1969 Grove (48) Website: www.hopscotch Owners: Olivia Foley, Owns 4 nurseries: Carshalton Places: 329 daynurseries.co.uk Tim Hodgson (60), Wallington 1 (106), Employees: 140 Wallington 2 (55), Wallington 3 (50) – all in Surrey kiddi caru day Out-of-school clubs: 18 nurseries and Provides traineeships, study westchester house programmes, apprenticeships nursery school and professional qualifications Head office: St Pancras House, in childcare, playwork, health Jacobs Yard, Basingstoke, and social care. Hants RG21 7PE Places: 310 Tel: 01256 383440 Employees: 200 Email: [email protected] Websites: www.kiddicaru.com, Just childcare www.westchesterhouse.co.uk Head office: Ridgway House, Chairman: Alan Bentley Progress Way, Denton M34 2GP Finance director: Adrian Moore Tel: 0161 320 2750 Director of childcare: Email: enquiries@ Sue Meekings justchildcare.co.uk Established: 1998 Website: www.just Owns and manages 19 Kiddi childcare.co.uk Caru nurseries, plus 1 under the Directors: Jacqueline Johnson, brand Westchester House: David Johnson Basingstoke, Hants (121); Established: 2004 Bedford (75); Burgess Hill, W Owns 20 nurseries: Atherton 1, Sussex (100); Chelmsford, Greater Manchester (68), Essex (100); Colchester, Essex Atherton 2 (52); Blackpool 1 (122); Exeter, Devon (132); (40), Blackpool 2 (35), Farnham, Surrey (97); Harlow, Blackpool 3 (75); Burnley 1, Essex (100); London: Earls Court Lancs (76), Burnley 2 (71); (104); Milton Keynes 1, Bucks

36 Nursery chains Autumn 2015 www.nurseryworld.co.uk (69), Milton Keynes 2 (89); Business Park (108); Bowesfield, Tel/Fax: 01925 753 448 Kidzcare Northampton (118); Stockton-on-Tees (108); Email: headoffice@kidsplanet Head office: Norwood House, Peterborough, Cambs (121); Darlington (108); Durham, daynurseries.co.uk 9 Kilgraston Road, Edinburgh Plympton, Devon (100); Redhill, University Hospital (100); Website: www.kidsplanetday EH9 2DX Surrey (100); Taunton, Gateshead (108); Gosforth, Tyne nurseries.co.uk Tel: 0131 668 2797 Somerset (129); Torquay, Devon and Wear (108); Hexham, Directors: John Hoban, Email: [email protected] (105); Wellingborough, Northumberland, General Clare Roberts, Bernadette Website: www.kidzcare.org Northants (103); Whiteley, Hospital (100); Low Fell, Tyne and Hoban and Lucy Kaczmarska Directors: Anne Marie Dunn Hants (128); Writtle, Essex (115) Wear (108); Newcastle, Quorum Established: 2008 Established: 2001 Places: 2,128 Business Park (108); North Owns 15 nurseries (as Kids Owns 4 nurseries: Edinburgh 1, Employees: 820 Shields, North Tyneside General Planet Day Nurseries, Jeffrey’s Craigmillar (25), Edinburgh 2, Hospital (110) Corner and Liverpool Astley Ainslie Hospital (99), Kid ease Places: 1,178 Nurseries): Beamont (39), Edinburgh 3 (66), Edinburgh 4, Head office: Kid Ease, The Employees: 350 Crewe (67), Cheshire; Dukinfield, Portobello (54). Also runs 7 Prospect Centre, Southern Plans: To open new settings in Greater Manchester (80); Hale after-school clubs, 5 breakfast Cross, Basing View, Basingstoke, Gateshead, Sunderland and (85), Lymm (121), Prestwich clubs and 2 holiday clubs Hants RG21 4HG Newcastle upon Tyne. (126), Cheshire; Higher Places: 244 Tel: 0844 854 6990 Broughton (160), Sale, (80), Employees: 330 Email: [email protected] Kids Allowed Salford (130), Springhead (55), Website: www.kidease.co.uk Head office: Joshua House, Greater Manchester; Warrington Kindercare Managing director: Ian Atkey Christie Fields Office Park, (94), Widnes (80), Cheshire; Head office: Hornbeam Established: 2001 Manchester M21 7QS Liverpool 1 (88), Liverpool 2 Business Park, Hookstone Road, Owns and operates Tel: 0161 434 6555 (107), Liverpool 3 (112) Harrogate HG2 8QT 5 nurseries: Dover, Kent: Email: [email protected] Owns 2 before and after- Tel: 01423 815990 Buckland (58), Triangles (102); Website: www.kidsallowed.com school and holiday clubs: Fax: 01423 816284 Hawkinge, Kent (104); Swingfield, Chief executive: Jennie Johnson Crosby (49), Greenbank (16) Email: enquiries@ Kent (57); Norwich, Norfolk (61) Established: 2005 Places: 1,424 kindercareltd.co.uk Places: 382 Owns 5 nurseries: Cheadle Employees: 488 Website: www.kinder Employees: 122 Royal, Cheshire (188); Christie Plans: To open or acquire new careltd.co.uk Fields, Greater Manchester nurseries in the north west in Director: Mrs J Standeven *Kiddycare (224); Knutsford, Cheshire 2015/16. Established: 1993 Head office: 71 Melton Road, (188); Macclesfield, Cheshire Owns 10 nurseries: Harrogate 1 Leicester (174); Stockport, Greater *KIDS Play (146), Harrogate 2 (86), Tel: 0116 2681471 Manchester (188) Head office: 11 Roebuck Way, Harrogate 3 (60), Harrogate 4 Email: Nadine@kiddy 5 out-of-school clubs: (196) Knowlhill, Milton Keynes (44), Leeds 1 (130), Leeds 2 carenurseries.co.uk, Places: 962 MK5 8HL (75), Leeds 3 (55), Leeds 4 [email protected] Employees: 321 Tel/Fax: 01908 209211 (100), Ripon (126), York (45) Website: www.kiddycare Plans: Opening 180-place Email: paulsharp@ – all in Yorks nurseries.co.uk setting in Altrincham 2015/16 kidsplaychildcare.co.uk Places: 867 Director: Kala Patel Website: www.kidsplay Employees: 240 Operations manager: Kids inc nurseries childcare.co.uk Nadine Farrington Head office: Crown House, Managing director: Paul Sharp The Kindergartens Established: 1985 227 Aldborough Road South, Childcare director: Head office: Great Tilden Oast, Owns 5 nurseries: Angels Ilford, Essex IG3 8HZ Sharon Elliott Tilden Lane, Marden, Kent pre-school (30), Kiddycare Tel: 020 8598 2600 Established: 1999 TN12 9AY nursery (65), Little Willows (45), Website: www.kidsinc Owns 8 nurseries: Bury St Tel: 01622 833331 Parkview (45) – all in Leicester; nurseries.co.uk Edmunds, Suffolk (77); Fax: 01622 833313 Royal Mail Childsplay, Established: 2003 Kettering, N Hants (48); London: Email: ce@thekinder Farringdon, London (30) Owns 11 nurseries: Bluewater, Brent Cross (59); Milton Keynes: gartens.co.uk Places: 215 Kent (106); Crowthorne, Knowlhill (107), Neath Hill (83), Website: www.thekinder Employees: 70 Berks (82); Enfield, Middlesex Bletcheley (47), Wolverton (42); gartens.com (101); Gants Hill, Ilford (30), St Albans (161) Director: Carol Evelegh Kids 1st Day Nurseries Ilford 2 (100), Ilford 3 (112); 13 out-of-school clubs: (principal) Head office: HMC House, Keel Guildford, Surrey (129); Knowlhill (50), Portfields (48), Established: 1991 Row 12, The Watermark, Metro Loughton, Essex (60); London: Willen (100), Tickford Park Owns 10 nurseries: Riverside, Gateshead NE11 9SZ Chingford (73), East Sheen (36), (24), Long Meadow (60), London: Balham 1 (40), Tel: 0191 461 8877 South Woodford (55) Giffard Park (32), Beaconsfield Balham 2 (50), Battersea (30), Email: [email protected] Places: 884 (32) – all in Bucks; Leighton Clapham 1 (80), Clapham 2 Website: www.kids1st.net Employees: 265 Buzzard, Beds (32); Lincoln (38), Clapham 3 (23), Managing director: Plans: Further acquisitions in (32); Loughton, Essex (60); Kensington (50), Streatham Mark McArdle London and the M25 area. London: Beckenham (60), (30), Streatham Hill (20), Established: 2003 Chelsea (32), Eastleigh (40) Wandsworth (40) Owns/manages 11 nurseries: KIDS PLANET Places: 624 Places: 401 Ashington, Northumberland, DAY NURSERIES Employees: 250 Employees: 100 Wansbeck General Hospital (112); Head office: 29 Eagle Brow, Plans: To open 3 new settings Plans: New acquisitions Billingham, Tees Valley, Wynyard Lymm, Cheshire WA13 0NA in 2016. planned.

www.nurseryworld.co.uk autumn 2015 Nursery Chains 37 Kinder haven Plans: New nursery opening in Warrington 3 (40); Washington, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham Head office: 14a Waterloo Road, Govan, Glasgow, in spring 2016. Tyne and Wear (98). Also has B73 5PQ Pudsey LS28 7PW crèches, playgroups and toddler Tel: 01213 548324 Tel: 01132 577737 Lilliput Montessori groups throughout the UK. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Day Nurseries Places: 596 Website: or [email protected] Head office: Railway House, Employees:205 www.littleripley.co.uk Website: www.kinderhaven. Hotel Street, Coalville, Leics Plans: Looking to open two new Directors: Ruth Appleby, co.uk LE67 3EQ settings in the next 12 months. Tom Oakey, Jenny Appleby, Managing directors: Tel: 01530 813913 Sarah Oakey Danielle Dixon, Darren Dixon Fax: 01530 817898 little einstein’s Established: 1988 Established: 2001 Email: [email protected] kindergarten Owns and manages Owns 6 nurseries: Bradford: Directors: Samantha Graveling, Head office: Everest Care 10 nurseries: Erdington 1 (50), Halifax Road (85), Sticker Lane Paul Graveling Homes, Nithsdale Lodge Care Erdington 2 (60), Erdington 3 (98), Wakefield Road (96), Established: 1994 Home, 620 Shields Road, (60), Erdington 4 (52), Great Westgate Hill (56); Horsforth: Owns 5 nurseries: Anstey (79), Glasgow G41 2RD Barr 1 (53), Great Barr 2 (60), Wood Lane (80); Waterloo Coalville (66), Glenfield (27), Tel: 0141 423 5842 Kingstanding (55), Sutton Road, Pudsey (65) Leicester Forest East (100), Email: [email protected] Coldfield 1 (60), Sutton Places: 480 Whetstone (63) – all in Leics. Website: www.littleeinstein.co.uk Coldfield 2 (51), Sutton Coldfield Employees: 125 Also runs before- and after- Director: Arti Poddar 3 (28) – all in Birmingham Plans: Developments and school clubs. Established: 2006 Places: 529 interest in the Yorkshire area. Places: 322 Owns 5 nurseries: Arbroath (61); Employees: 184 Employees: 105 Dundee (26); Glasgow 1 (66), Plans: New nursery opening KinderKare Glasgow 2 (60); Perth (180). May 2016 Head office: Sunnyside, *Lincolnshire Owns Thistle Training Company Barbourne Terrace, Childcare Places: 502 London Early Years Worcester WR1 3JR Head office: The Old School, Employees: 160 Foundation (LEYF) Tel: 01905 23973 107a-107b Dudley Road, Head office: 121 Marsham Email: sunnyside@ Grantham, Lincs NG31 9AB little elms Street, London SW1P 4LX kinderkare.co.uk Tel: 01476 591744 Head office: 29 Beckenham Tel: 020 7834 8679 Website: www.kinderkare.co.uk Email: [email protected] Road, Beckenham, Kent Email: [email protected] Director: James Jenner Website: www.lincolnshire BR3 4PR Website: www.leyf.org.uk Area manager: Helen Smith childcare.co.uk Tel: 0208 658 4282 Chief executive: June O’Sullivan Established: 2003 Directors: Sue Jenkins & Website: www.littleelms Established: 1903 Owns 3 nurseries: Exeter (100); Diane Smith daycare.co.uk Legal structure/status: Worcester: Hawthorn Cottage Area manager: Rita McMath Directors: Matthew and Registered charity, company (50), Sunnyside (80) Established: 1989 Spencer Lancaster limited by guarantee and social Places: 230 Owns 5 nurseries: Bourne (80), Owns 7 nurseries: Beckenham 1, enterprise Employees: 80 Grantham 1 (145), Grantham 2 Kent (120), Beckenham 2 (60); Manages 34 community, (120), Market Deeping (109), Crofton, Orpington (93); London: workplace and children’s *Kirktonholme Early Ruskington (70) – all Lincs Greenwich (60), Lee (60), centre nurseries: London: Learning and 3 out-of-school clubs: Bourne Shirley (60), Sydenham (42) Abbots Manor (25), Angel Childcare (32), Grantham (124), Places: 495 (30), Bessborough (51), Bird in Head office: 401 Kirktonholme Ruskington (40) Employees: 100+ Bush (56), Brixton (40), Road, East Kilbride G74 1RS Places: 524 Carlton Hill (66), Colville (51), Tel: 01355 222000 Employees: 109 Little Ones Childcare Conservatoire, Blackheath (49), Email: karen.flynn@ Head office: Pinbrook Industrial Earls Court (42), Eastbury (45), kirktonholmenursery.com Little Acorns Group Estate, Chancel Lane, Pinhoe, Fire Station, Hackney (45), Website: www. Head office: Acorn House, Exeter, Devon EX4 8JS Fitzrovia (25), Ford Road, kirktonholmenursery.com Houghton Street, Warrington, Tel: 01392 469909 Dagenham (57), Furze, Romford General manager: Karen Flynn Cheshire WA2 7DD Email: info@littleones (52), Henry Fawcett, Lambeth Director: Charlotte Kelly Tel: 01925 232202 childcare.co.uk (47), Holcroft (31), House of Established: 1995 Fax: 01925 235380 Website: Commons, Westminster (40), Owns 9 nurseries: Ayr (75); Email: enquiries@ www.littleoneschildcare.co.uk Katharine Bruce, N Kensington Bearsden, E Dunbartonshire littleacornsgroup.com Managing director: Katie Porter (57), Leys (49), Lisson Green (102); Coatbridge 1, N Website: www.littleacorns Established: 2000 (44), Luton Street (49), Marks Lanarkshire (64), Coatbridge 2 group.com Owns and manages Gate, Romford (49), Marsham (67); East Kilbride, S Lanarkshire Managing director: Neil Ritchie 6 nurseries: Bovey Tracey (44), Street, Westminster (55), Micky (188); Newton Mearns, E Established: 1992 Budlake (29), Honiton (33), Star, Westminster (50), New Renfrewshire (70); Shettleston, Operates 10 nurseries: Boston, Westexe (38), Whipton (36), Cross (66), Noah’s Ark, Tower Glasgow (73), Tollcross, Lincs (59); Gomersal, W Yorks Wonford (33) – all in Devon Hamlets (50), Paddington (48), Glasgow (78); Wishaw, N (43); Manchester (64); Worsley Places: 213 Pembury (55), Playhouse, New Lanarkshire (63) (47); Mirfield, W Yorks (68); Employees: 85 Cross (51), Queens Park (44), Owns 2 after school clubs: East Rothwell, Leeds (45); Lingley Queensborough (39), Soho (43), Kilbride 1 (66), E Kilbride 2 (16) Mere, Warrington 1, Cheshire *Little ripley Day Stockwell (62), Townmead (52) Places: 780 (98), Stockton Heath, Nurseries Places: 1,615 Employees: 243 Warrington 2 (48), Westbrook, Head office: 2 Goldieslie Road, Employees: 500

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Plans: To grow to 50 nurseries by 2017, catering for more than 5,000 children.

Mace montessori schoOls Head office: Units 21-22 Factory Quarter, Warple Way, London W3 7FW Tel: 020 8749 2871 Email: mace@mace montessori.com Website: www.mace montessori.com Director: Shahid Hamid Established: 1997 Owns 10 nurseries: London: East Putney (84), Finchley (88), Fortune Green (40), Hammersmith 1 (70), Hammersmith 2 (40), North Chiswick (96), Russell Square (24), Wandsworth (60), Wapping 1 (65), Wapping 2 (44) Places: 611 Employees: 225

Magic Nurseries Head office: 13 Esmond Road, London W4 1JG London: Docklands (39), Employees: 435 Proprietors: Samantha Britton, Tel: 020 7060 0158 Kennington (104, plus 22 Plans: Setting opening in Jarrod Britton Email: tom@magic after-school places), Stockwell Hanham, Bristol (55 places) in Established: 2002 nurseries.com (186, plus 32 after-school January 2016. Two more settings Owns 4 nurseries: Alford (70), Director: Tom Reed places), Walthamstow (126, planned in Bristol for 2016. Boston (55), Swineshead (63), Established: 2002 plus 32 after-school places) Wragby (51) – all in Lincs Owns 17 nurseries: Hitchin, Places: 547 Milton Keynes Places: 239 Herts (95); Leicester 1 (80), Employees: 140 Preparatory Employees: 46 Leicester 2 (57), Leicester 3 Schools Group (28), Leicester 4 (30), Leicester Mama Bear’s Day Head office: Milton Keynes *Monkey Puzzle Day 5 (47), Leicester 6 (22); Kirby Nursery Preparatory School, Tattenhoe Nurseries Muxloe (45), Market Head office: 1st Floor, 60-62 Lane, Milton Keynes MK3 7EG Head office: Ground Floor, 4 Harborough (115), Melton High Street, Hanham, Bristol Tel: 01908 642111 Churchgates, Berkhampstead, Mowbray (59) Shepshed (45), BS15 3DR Fax: 01908 366365 Herts HP4 2UB Whitwick (71) – all Leics; Tel: 0117 958 2030 Email: [email protected] Tel: 01442 878887 Northampton (75); Oundle, Email: tony.driffield@ Website: www.mkps.co.uk Email: info@ Northants (43); Redbourn, Herts mamabear.co.uk Headteacher: Hilary Pauley monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com (94); Rushden, Northants (96); Website: www.mamabear.co.uk Established: 1975 Website: www. St Ives, Cambs (94) Directors: Bev Driffield, Tony Owns 3 nurseries: Broughton monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com Places: 1,096 Driffield, Nicola Thorne, Kerry Manor (130), Milton Keynes Director: Will Campbell Employees: 410 Sturmey, Ben Chalk Preparatory School (140), Established: 1978 Plans: To continue rapid Established: 2002 Walton (150) – all attached Owns/manages 4 nurseries expansion by acquiring high- Owns 21 nurseries: Bristol: to independent preparatory and 28 franchises: Bedford quality individual nurseries Brislington (72), Bradley Stoke 1 schools in Milton Keynes (96); Bexleyheath, Kent (140); and small groups. (102), Bradley Stoke 2 (62), Places: 420 Billericay, Essex (55); Bromley, Clifton 1 (72), Clifton 2 (120), Employees: 112 Kent (64); Chesham, Bucks (51); Magic Roundabout Crews Hole (68), Downend 1 Cheshunt, Herts (72); Didsbury, Nurseries (52), Downend 2 (64), mon ami children’s Greater Manchester (83); Head office: MRN House, Fishponds (59), Hengrove (61), day nursery Glasgow (79); High Wycombe, Binfield Road, London SW4 6TB Shirehampton (68), Soundwell Head office: Ormsby Lodge, Bucks (60); Irthlingborough, Tel: 020 7498 1195 (73), Totterdown (80); Paignton 12 East Street, Alford, Lincs Northants (63); Kingston, Surrey Email: hashim@mrn 1, Devon (62), Paignton 2 (52), LN13 9EQ (100); London: Catford (120), nursery.co.uk Paignton 3 (57); Plymouth 1 Tel/fax: 01507 462228 Ealing (70), East Finchley (82), Website: www.mrnnursery.co.uk (115), Plymouth 2 (30); Taunton, Email: mon-ami.alford@ Highbury Park (71), Notting Hill Director: Farukh Najabat Somerset (53); Torquay, Devon btconnect.com (43), Twickenham (48), West Established: 1995 (30); Yeovil, Somerset (68) Website: www.monami Kensington (84); Portsmouth, Owns 5 nurseries: Bristol (92); Places: 1,420 nurseries.co.uk Hants (80); Shefford, Beds (51);

40 Nursery chains Autumn 2015 www.nurseryworld.co.uk Solihull, Birmingham (44); Website: www.nellys.co.uk Established: 1989 Eastcote (26), Hayes (50), Southport, Merseyside (87); St Owners: Jez Hill, Sarah Hill Owns 9 nurseries: Billingham Uxbridge 1 (42), Uxbridge 2 (26); Albans 1 (47), St Albans 2 (87); Established: 2002 (50), Brambles Farm (78), Hounslow: Feltham (63), Lower Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warks Owns 4 nurseries: Lancaster Ingleby Barwick (60), Feltham (35) (69); Tatsfield, Surrey (56); Avenue (46), Rosendale Road Middlesbrough 1 (76), Owns 1 playgroup: Hayes, Warwick (72); Wickham, (51), Turney Road (37), Dulwich Middlesbrough 2 (85), Hillingdon (26) Hampshire (36); Weybridge, Sports Ground (36) – all London Middlesbrough 3 (51), Places: 268 Surrey (75); Wigston, Places: 170 Nunthorpe (76), Ormesby (75), Employees: 122 Leicestershire (72); Wilmslow, Employees: 75 Stockton-on-Tees (62) – all in Cheshire (44); Woodlesford, Teesside. Out-of-school and Oranges and Lemons Leeds (72) Newpark Childcare holiday clubs at each setting. Nurseries Places: 2,273 Head office: 67 Highbury New Places: 589 Head office: Belsize House, Employees: 50 Park, London N5 2EU Employees: 145 Belsize Road, Broughty Ferry, Plans: To open a nursery in Tel/Fax: 020 7503 0961 Dundee DD5 1NF Borehamwood. Website: www.newpark Nyehome Nursery Tel: 01382 775135 childcare.co.uk Schools Fax: 01382 737794 mulberry bush Directors: Barry Clutterbuck, Head office: Barony Court, Email: belsize@oranges nursery group Janice Clutterbuck, Barony Road, Nantwich, lemons.co.uk Head office: Mulberry Bush Tiffany Clutterbuck Cheshire CW5 5RD Website: www.oranges Nursery Group, 741 Walmersley Established: 1994 Tel: 01270 610846 lemons.co.uk Road, Bury, Lancs BL9 5JW Owns 5 Montessori nursery Email: headoffice@ Manager: Dianne Grindle Tel: 0161 761 0169 schools: London: Barbican (26), nyehome.co.uk Established: 1998 Email: jo.kinloch@ Clerkenwell (64), Highbury (34), Website: www.nyehome.co.uk Owns 4 nurseries: Dundee: mulberrybush-nursery.co.uk Shepherds Bush (82), Managing director: Broughty Ferry (60), Website: www.mulberry Wandsworth (60) Nora Connolly Clement Park Place (50), bush-nursery.co.uk Places: 266 Established: 1966 Rosebank (50), Technology Director: Joanne Kinloch, Paul Employees: 95 Owns 3 nurseries: Nantwich Park (100) Robinson, Andrew Robinson Plans: Ongoing expansion. (77), Sandbach (40) – both in Places: 260 Established: 1990 Cheshire; The Wirral (63) Employees: 130 Owns 5 nurseries: Bury, Greater Northumbrian Trust Places: 180 Manchester: Dumers Lane Day Nurseries Employees: 55 paintpots (122), Tottington (98), Head office: 301 Chillingham pre-school Walmersley (80), Walshaw Road, Newcastle upon Tyne The Old Station and nursery (104), Whitefield (56) NE6 5SB Nursery Head office: Paintpots House, 1 Places: 460 Tel: 0191 265 6501 Head office: 7 Park Road, Spring Court, Hawkswood, Employees: 160 Fax: 0191 265 6353 Faringdon, Oxon SN7 7BP Southampton SO17 2FZ Email: enquiries@ Tel: 01367 243800 Tel: 023 8022 3548 *Naturally northumbriantrustday Email: enquiries@ Email: info@ Learning nurseries.co.uk theoldstationnursery.co.uk paintpotsnursery.co.uk Head office: The Old Church Website: www.northumbrian Website: www.theoldstation Website: www.paintpots Hall, Church Road, Charlestown, trustdaynurseries.co.uk nursery.co.uk nursery.co.uk St Austell PL25 3NS Directors: JP Gould, EG Gould, Managing director: Sarah Steel Owners: David Wright, Tel: 01726 339855 JJ Gould Established: 2002 Anna Wright Email: info@naturallylearning. Established: 1994 Owns 5 nurseries: Henley-on- Established: 1980 co.uk Owns 4 nurseries: Newcastle Thames (64), Faringdon(60), Owns 8 nurseries: Website: www. upon Tyne (87, plus out-of- Filkins (28) – all in Oxon; Southampton: Harefield (44), naturallylearning.co.uk school club); Spennymoor, Innsworth, Glos (64); Stoke Park Freemantle (52), Portswood Directors: Mandy Richardson, Co Durham (43); Stockton-on- Crèche, Bucks (30) (64), Sholing (52), Shirley 1 Judith Chapman Tees (80, plus out-of-school Owns 1 out-of-school club (52), Shirley 2 (32), Swaythling Senior Manager: Sophie club); York (30). Also operates a Watlington (32) (64), West End (44) Mansfield training centre. Places: 278 1 out-of-school club: Bannister Established: 2012 Places: 189 Employees: 85 School, Southampton (24) Owns 4 nurseries: Charlestown Employees: 64 Places: 428 (36), Poltair, St Austell (56), St once upon a time Employees: 110 Winnow, Lostwithiel (42), Truro Nunthorpe Nurseries day nurseries Plans: Plans to expand to 10 (40) – all in Cornwall Group Head office: Blair Athol House, nurseries. Places: 174 Head office: 2 The Crescent, Ashfield Avenue, Feltham, Out-of-school clubs: Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough Middlesex TW13 5BB Pinocchio’s Charleston, St Winnow & Truro TS7 0JP Tel: 020 8751 5810 Children’s Nurseries Employees: 60 Tel/Fax: 01642 325312 Fax: 020 8844 0800 Head office: 11 Hardengreen Email: headoffice@ Website: www.onceuponatime Business Centre, Hardengreen Nelly’s nurseries nunthorpenurseries.co.uk daynurseries.co.uk Industrial Estate, Eskbank, Head office: 27 Turney Road, Website: www.nunthorpe Proprietor: Midlothian EH22 3NX London SE21 8LX nurseries-grp.co.uk Lorna Hackland-Crowther Tel: 0131 6633 233 Tel: 020 8761 4178 Directors: Paul Nelson, Established: 1989 Website: www.pinocchios Email: [email protected] Ian Howlett Owns 6 nurseries: Hillingdon: nursery.co.uk

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Directors: Stratos Koulis, Lancashire (30); Prescot, Website: www.pre-school.org.uk Newark, Notts (58); Newstead, Lewissa Koulis Merseyside (87); Skelmersdale, Chief executive: Neil Leitch Notts (49); Newthorpe, Notts Owns 5 nurseries: Edinburgh, Lancashire (52); Thatto Heath, Established: 1961 (32); Northhampton (26); Heriot-Watt University (55), Merseyside (32) Owns/manages 122 nurseries Norwich 1 (44), Norwich 2 (60); Eskbank (76), Gilmerton (48), Owns 2 after-school clubs Arbury, Cambs (36); Ashby, N Peterborough 1 (26), Lasswade (57), Penicuick (55) Aughton and St Helens Lincs (20); Barnstaple, Devon Peterborough 2 (56), – all in Midlothian Places: 317 (24); Barnstone, Notts (24); Peterborough 3 (26), Places: 291 Employees: 104 Basildon 1, Essex (50); Basildon Peterborough 4 (26), Employees: 120 2 (50); Bestwood, Notts (20); Peterborough 5 (26); Red Lion, Portland nurseries Birmingham 1 (60), Birmingham Notts (20); Runcorn 1, Cheshire Pixieland Day Head office: Oakwood House, 2 (42), Birmingham 3 (50), (60), Runcorn 2 (54); Selston, Nurseries 2 Hungerford Road, Edgerton, Birmingham 4 (24), Birmingham Notts (26); Skegness, Lincs Head office: 10 Springfield Drive, Huddersfield HD3 3AL 5 (24); Bolton, Greater (38); Southend 1, Essex (72), Milehouse Road, Plymouth Tel: 01484 533322 Manchester (70); Brinsley, Notts Southend 2 (84); Southwold, PL3 4DU Fax: info@portland (36); Bude, Cornwall (32); Suffolk (38); St Erth, Cornwall Tel: 01752 511007 nurseries.co.uk Bulwell, Notts (54); Cambridge (20); Stockton on Tees 1, County Email: [email protected] Website: www.portland (24); Canterbury, Kent (56); Durham (75), Stockton on Tees Website: www.pixielandday nurseries.co.uk Cawston, Norfolk (24); 2 (77), Stockton on Tees 3 (48), nurseries.co.uk Directors: Rosemary Murphy, Egloskerry, Cornwall (24); Stockton on Tees 4 (16); Proprietor: Caroline Francis Michael A. Murphy Exmouth, Devon (26); Tamworth 1, Staffs (44), Established: 1983 Established: 1991 Gainsborough, Lincs (33); Tamworth 2 (54); Taunton, Owns/manages 4 nurseries: Owns 4 nurseries: Huddersfield: Gateshead, Tyne and Wear (32); Somerset (38); Teignmouth, Devonport, MoD (36); Harlequin Nursery, Edgerton 1 Grimsby, Lincs (16); Haverhill, Devon (24); Tipton, W Mids Plymouth: Mannamead (79), (27), Holly Bank Nursery, Suffolk (48); Holt, Norfolk (32); (36); Tiverton, Devon (49); Milehouse (92); Saltash (100) Edgerton 2 (56), Oakwood Huddersfield 1, Yorks (30), Torquay, Devon (30); Watford, – all in Devon and all but MoD House Nursery & Forest School, Huddersfield 2 (48); Herts (28); Worksop 1, Notts have out-of-school clubs and Edgerton 3 (84), Portland Hunstanton, Norfolk (26); (77), Worksop 2 (54) holiday clubs House, Lindley (90) Huntingdon 1, Cambs (49), Places: 4,472 Places: 307 After-school club: Lindley (24) Huntingdon 2 (20), Huntingdon Plans: To open a nursery in Employees: 92 Places: 265 3 (26); Ilfracombe, Devon (42); Exley, Staffs in 2016. Employees: 103 Ilsington, Devon (24); Plus Three Nurseries Ingoldmells, Lincs (20); Primley Park Head office: Hope House, positive Steps Keighley, Yorks (55); Kings Lynn Children’s Nurseries 21c Balliol Way, Owlsmoor, Children’s Day 1, Norfolk (48), Kings Lynn 2 Head office: 48 Nursery Lane, Sandhurst, Berks GU47 0QN Nursery (27); Langley Mill, Derbyshire Alwoodley, Leeds LS17 8UH Tel: 07970 030769 Head office: Lower Church (52); Leeds, Yorks (26); Tel: 0113 288 8833 (admin only) Email: plusthreenursery@ Street, Stokenchurch, Bucks Leicester 1 (50), Leicester 2 (20), Email: shprimleypark@ aol.com HP14 3TG Leicester 3 (32); Leiston, Suffolk fsmail.net Website: www.plusthree Tel: 01494 484762 (52); Letchworth, Herts (20); Directors: Sandra Hutchinson nurseries.com Email: headoffice@ Lincoln (20); Liversedge, Yorks (MD and operations), Malcolm Director: Sue Butler positivestepsnurseries.co.uk (16); London: Camden 1 (20), Hutchinson (finance) Nursery managers: Website: www.positivesteps Camden 2 (20), Camden 3 (16), Established: 1991 Jenny Belcher, Claire Hawkins & nurseries.co.uk Ealing 1 (15), Ealing 2 (26), Erith 1 Owns 4 nurseries: Leeds: Leanne Brown Directors: Paul Clarke, (84), Erith 2 (70), Erith 3 (70), Alwoodley (50), Moortown Established: 1985 Michelle Richardson Greenwich 1 (24), Greenwich 2 (79), Roundhay 1 (80), Roundhay Owns 3 nurseries: Bracknell, Established: 2000 (61), Greenwich 3 (12), 2 (60) Berks: Farley Wood (50), Martins Owns 8 nurseries: Apsley, Greenwich 4 (12), Greenwich 5 Places: 269 Heron (50), Newell Green (60) Herts (90); Guildford, Surrey (12), Greenwich 6 (12), Employees: 92 Places: 160 (84); Maidenhead 1, Berks Hammersmith & Fulham 1 (17), Plans: To open a new setting in Employees: 20 (90), Maidenhead 2 Hammersmith & Fulham 2 (20), spring 2016. (80); Shellingford, Oxon Hammersmith & Fulham 3 (20), Portico DAY NURSERIES (55); Stokenchurch, Bucks Ilford 1 (30), Ilford 2 (28), Puffins of Exeter Head office: Apartment 6, (58); West Byfleet, Lewisham 1 (24), Lewisham 2 Childcare Centres Claremont House, Ruff Lane, Surrey (72); Sevenoaks (90) (22), Lewisham 3 (26), Head office: 13 Mont le Grand, Ormskirk, Lancs L39 4UP Places: 691 Lewisham 4 (16), Lewisham 5 Heavitree, Exeter, Devon Tel: 01695 581545 Employees: 220 (17), Newham 1 (30), Newham 2 EX1 2PD Email: [email protected] Plans: Seeking further premises (30), Newham 3 (30), Newham Tel: 01392 496017 Website: www. in the south east. 4 (30); Longstanton, Cambs Fax: 01392 439903 porticonurserygroup.co.uk (26); Luton 1, Beds (69), Luton 2 Email: enquiries@ Directors: Nicole Politis & Pre-school Learning (65), Luton 3 (70), Luton 4 (32), puffinsofexeter.com Craig Jackson Alliance Luton 5 (24); Mablethorpe, Lincs Website: www.puffinsofexeter. Established: 2002 Head office: The Fitzpatrick (46); Manchester (50); co.uk Owns 7 nurseries: Aughton, Building, 188 York Way, London Mansfield, Notts (41); Marazion, Managing directors: Maureen Lancashire (40); Eccleston Park, N7 9AD Cornwall (24); Milton Keynes 1, Gard, Rosalind Taylor, Gemma Merseyside (32); Moss Bank, Tel: 020 7697 2527 Bucks (30), Milton Keynes 2 Rolstone, Gillian Fawcett Merseyside (44); Ormskirk, Email: [email protected] (26); New Woods, Notts (50); Established: 1990

42 Nursery chains Autumn 2015 www.nurseryworld.co.uk Owns 6 nurseries: Exeter: Farm Day Nursery (40), rosy apple childcare Email: info@safehands Clystheath (60), Heavitree Woodleys Park Day Nursery (72) Head office: Unit 6, Lockside nurseries.com (40), St Leonards (72), – all in Northants Office Park, Lockside Road, Website: www.safe Southernhay (70), Sowton Places: 436 Riversway, Preston PR2 2YS handsnursery.net (60); Torquay, Shiphay (48). Employees: 70 Tel: 01772 733777 Established: 1997 Apprenticeship courses. Email: sharon@rosyapple Owner: Simon Rigby 2 after-school clubs: Exeter: Rosedene Nurseries childcare.com Owns 13 nurseries: Accrington, Clyst St Mary (20), holiday club Head office: Guisborough Day Website: www.rosyapple Lancs (59); Barnoldswick, at Manston Terrace (30) Nursery, 66a Hutton Lane, childcare.com Lancs (70); Blackpool (78); Places: 400 Guisborough TS14 6QP Chief executive: Colne, Lancs (60); Crewe, Employees: 130 Tel: 01287 633007 Sharon Alexander Cheshire 1 (62), Crewe 2 Email: enquiries@ Managing director: (65), Crewe 3 (60); Kendal, Rainbow Nursery rosedenenurseries.co.uk Sharon Fenton Cumbria (60); Northwich, Head office: 14 Moss Way, Website: www.rosedene Established: 2003 Cheshire (72); Penrith, Hillend Industrial Estate, nurseries.co.uk Owns 5 nurseries: Blackburn Cumbria (47); Preston 1, Dalgety, Fife KY11 9JS Directors: Clare McCullagh, (75); Preston 1 (55), Preston 2 Lancs (61); Preston 2 (90); Tel: 01383 821970 John McCullagh (83), Preston 3 (65); Stalybridge, Tameside (96) Email: rainbownursery2@ Established: 1993 Skelmersdale (71) – all in Lancs Places: 880 btconnect.com Owns 11 nurseries: Cleveland 1, Places: 349 Employees: 143 Website: www.rainbow N Yorks – Sunrise (56), Employees: 90 childcarefife.co.uk Cleveland 2 – Wolviston (30); Plans: Continued development *Schoolhouse Directors: Craig Skinner, Darlington, Co Durham (60); of the settings with the addition Daycare Ian Skinner Egglescliffe, Co Durham (24); of before- and after-school Head office: 45 De La Beche Established: Acquired in 2010 Guisborough, N Yorks (54); clubs, along with holiday care. Road, Sketty, Swansea Owns 3 nurseries: Dalgety Bay Middlesbrough: Acklam (36), SA2 9EA (89), Glenrothes (117), St Hemlington (50), Kader (36), Safehands green Tel: 01792 202900 Andrews (64) – all in Fife Ormesby (41); Saltburn-by-the- start nurseries Email: mail@schoolhouse- Places: 270 Sea, N Yorks (45); Stockton-on- Head office: 2 Neptune Court, daycare.co.uk Employees: 66 Tees, Co Durham (48) Hallam Way, Whitehills Business Website: www.schoolhouse- Places: 480 Park, Blackpool, Lancs FY4 5LZ daycare.co.uk Rascals Day Employees: 150 Tel: 01253 922922 Established: 1998 Nurseries Head office: 121a Circular Road, Belfast, N. Ireland BT4 2GE Tel: 028 9076 1333 Fax: 028 9076 9333 Email: reception@ rascalsdaynurseries.com Website: www.rascals daynurseries.com Managing directors: Lynne D’Arcy, Roger D’Arcy Established: 1988 Owns 8 nurseries: Belfast: Belfast East 1 (119), Belfast East 2 (50), Belfast North 1 (50), Belfast North 2 (100), Belfast South 1 (58), Belfast South 2 (28), Belfast South 3 (140); Londonderry (50) Places: 595 Employees: 238

Rhymetime Nursery Head office: Connolly Lodge, Berrywood Close, St Crispins, Northampton NN5 4BW Tel: 01604 586440 Email: michelle.avenue@ btinternet.com Managing director: Michelle Harris Established: 2000 Owns 6 nurseries: Corby (70), Kettering (64), Northampton (96), Rushden (94), Woodleys

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Directors: Amanda Bennett, Established: 2001 Tel: 01392 435071 Tel: 01530 814477 Kevin Bennett Owns 3 nurseries: Aldbourne Finance office: 143 Exeter Road, Email: info@ Owns 7 nurseries: Bridgend (40), Devizes (66), Marlborough Exmouth, EX8 5AU hermitagedaynursery.co.uk (50); Carmarthen: Glangwili (68) – all in Wilts Tel: 01395 274938 Website: www.swingboat (50), Tycroes (18); Neath Port Places: 174 Email: denise.cronin@ nurseries.co.uk Talbot (42); Swansea: City (46), Employees: 55 splnurseries.co.uk Directors: Elaine Blunt, Morriston (121), Sketty (118) Plans: Further expansion Directors: Jon Middleton Graham Blunt Places: 445 planned in Wiltshire and Established: 2006 Established: 1996 Employees: 116 neighbouring counties. Owns 4 nurseries: Exeter 1 (60), Owns 3 nurseries: Ashby (50), Exeter 2 (80), Exeter 3 (63); Hermitage (80) – both in Leics; Seymour House Snapdragons Exmouth (56) – all in Devon Woodville, Derbys (110) Day Nursery Schools Nurseries Places: 269 4 out-of-school clubs: Head office: Seymour House, Head office: Prospect Farm, Employees: 90 Ashby-de-la-Zouch (48), 140 Broomfield Road, 43 Bath Road, Atworth, Griffydam (48), Whitwick (49) Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1RN Melksham, Wilts SN12 8JW St george’s – all in Leics; Woodville (48) Tel: 01245 213213 Tel: 01225 707009 nursery schools Places: 240 Email: admin@ Email: atworth@ Head office: 2 Grace Road, Employees: 132 seymourhouse.co.uk snapdragonsnursery.com Leicester LE2 8AD Website: www. Website: www.snap Tel: 01162 290023 Tara Kindergartens seymourhouse.co.uk dragonsnursery.com Email: enquiries@ Head office: 4 Ridgemead Directors: John Player, Directors: Paul Collard stgeorgesnursery.com Close, Southgate, London Julie Player, Jonathan Player (finance and creative director), Website: www.stgeorges N14 6NW Established: 1988 Rosemary Collard nursery.com Tel/fax: 020 8886 8334 Owns 10 nurseries: Basildon (managing director), Director: Birju Ghelani, Email: [email protected] (34); Chelmsford: Broomfield Paul Collard (creative director), Jaimie Ghelani Website: www. Hospital (50), Broomfield Road Jennifer Biddel Established: 1994 tarakindergartens.co.uk (50), Lawn Lane (50), (operations director) Owns 5 nurseries: Aylestone Proprietor: Raj Nagendran Springfield Road (50); Established: 1998 (94), Enderby (84), Leicester Established: 1992 Colchester (51); Laindon (51); St Owns 8 nurseries: Atworth (39), City (90), Narborough (60), Owns 4 nurseries: London: Albans (66), Wickford (73), Broadwood (74), Corsham Oadby (85) – all in Leics Edmonton (72), Enfield (50) Witham (66) – all in Essex (100), Melksham (31) – all in Places: 413 Southgate (100), Uxbridge (60) Places: 541 Wilts; Bath and North East Employees: 95 Places: 282 Employees: 200 Somerset: Grosvenor (70), Employees: 95 Plans: Seeking expansion in the Horfield, Bristol (120), Sunhill Daycare south east. Keynsham (122), Weston (164) (Europe) Tenderlinks Day 4 out-of-school clubs: Atworth Head office: PO Box 157, nurseries *Shooting Stars (8), Broadwood (16), Corsham Royston, Herts SG8 9WY Head office: Lampard nurseries (48), Weston (30) Tel: 01763 247474 Investments, Hill House, 210 Head office: 168 Lower High Places: 720 Fax: 01763 243033 Upper Richmond Road, London Street, Stourbridge, West Employees: 200 Website: www.sunhill SW15 6NP Midlands DY8 1TT Plans: New nursery in Bristol daycare.com Tel: 07940 391682 Tel: 01384 444355 opening in summer 2016. Email: enquiries@ Email: fkhaki@ Email: stourbridge@ sunhilldaycare.com lampardinvestments.com myshootingstars.com *South hills nursery Directors: Geoff Chapman Website: www.tenderlinks Website: www. Head office: Home Farm Road, (managing director), daynursery.co.uk myshootingstars.com Wilton, Wiltshire SP2 8PJ Claire Jones (chief executive Managing director: Director: Jon Higgins Tel: 01722 744971 officer), Kirsty Love (compliance, Farouq Khaki Established: 2009 Email: southhillsschool@ care and educaton manager) Established: 2006 Owns 4 nurseries: Gloucester btinternet.com Established: 1991 Owns 3 nurseries: London: (76), Hinckley (78), Stourbridge Website: www.southhills Owns 10 nurseries: Aylesbury, Norbury (19), Streatham (38); (59), Wolverhampton (86) – all school.com Bucks (94); Basildon, Essex (87); Twickenham, Middlesex (18) in W Midlands Directors: John Proctor, Berkhamsted (87), Places: 75 Places: 299 Alicia Proctor Hemel Hempstead (77), Royston Employees: 22 Employees: 106 Established: 1994 (80) – all in Herts; Fen Drayton Owns 6 nurseries: Burcombe (72), Great Abington (82), St TINYSAURUS NURSERIES Sixpenny childcare (24), Corsham (60), Hindon Neots (47) – all in Cambs; Head office: Supersaurus Head office: Kennet Barns, (20), Salisbury 1 (70), Salisbury Suffolk 1 (58), Suffolk 2 (40) Nursery, 46 Cromwell Road, Church Lane, Mildenhall, 2 (60), Wilton (150) – all in Wilts 2 out-of-school club: St Neots Hove, East Sussex BN3 3ER nr Marlborough, Wiltshire Places: 384 (25); Suffolk (16) Tel: 01273 730017 SN8 2LU Employees: 70+ Places: 724 Email: accounts@ Tel: 01672 511931 Employees: 210 supersaurusnursery.co.uk Email: kate@sixpenny- *SPL Education and Plans: Further acquisitions. Website: www. childcare.co.uk Exeter Nurseries tinysaurusnursery.co.uk Website: www.sixpenny- Nursery Team office: 36 Swingboat Nurseries Directors: Rikke Kerler, childcare.co.uk Alphington Road, Exeter Head office: 147-149 Hermitage KF Phoon Proprietor: Kate Easter EX2 8HN Road, Whitwick, Leics LE67 5EL Established: 2006

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Owns 5 nurseries: Burgess Hill, Website: www.toadhall- Danielle Andrews Wight, IoW College, Hants (61); West Sussex (45); Hove 1, East nursery.co.uk (operations manager) Portsmouth 1 (61), Portsmouth 2 Sussex (51), Hove 2 (100), Hove Directors: Ruth Pimentel Established: 2003 (61); Taunton 1, Somerset (35), 3 (122); Shoreham-by-Sea, West Established: 1998 Owns 10 nurseries: Coventry: Taunton 2, Musgrove Park Sussex (84) Owns 16 nurseries: Chapelfields (28), Coundon 1 Hospital (122); Winchester, Places: 402 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire (34), Hen Lane (50), Norman Royal Hampshire County Employees: 120 (78); Chessington, Surrey (57); Place Road (30), Wickham Hospital, Hants (61). Plans: To open 2 more nurseries, Colmworth, Beds (55); Ealing Close (24), Parkville Highway Crèche opportunities available. in Brighton (50) and Hove (45). (50); Haslemere, Surrey (72); (84); Kenilworth 1 (28), Also provides training in care. Hitchin, Herts (107); Horley, Kenilworth 2 (30); Nuneaton 1 Places: 1,312 tiny teddies Surrey (53); Langley, Berks (28), Nuneaton 2 (34) Employees: 531 day nursery (101); Ottershaw, Surrey (41); 1 out-of-school club: Coventry: Head office: The Old Fire Ripley, Surrey (40); Moseley Avenue (17) Torridon Station, Chetton Avenue, Walton-on-Thames 1, Surrey Places: 370 Education Group Daimler Green, Radford, (81), Walton-on-Thames 2 (52), Employees: 125 Head office: 23a King Street, Coventry CV6 3LA Walton-on-Thames 3 (12) Lossiemouth, Moray IV31 6PZ Tel: 02476 590059 – all Surrey; Watford, Herts tops Day Nurseries Tel: 01343 813342 Email: [email protected] (80); Winnersh, Berks (72); Head office: 744 Christchurch Managing director: Website: www.tinyteddies.co.uk Woking, Surrey (104) Road, Bournemouth, Dorset Sharon Hayward Email: [email protected] Places: 1,056 BH1 3SJ Operations manager: Principals: Paul Ingram, Employees: 380 Tel: 01202 551553 Lauren Hayward Michelle Ingram Plans: Further acquisitions; Email: admin@ Established: 1994 Established: 2003 expansion at two sites. topsdaynurseries.co.uk Owns 3 nurseries: Elgin (60), Owns 4 nurseries: Coventry: Website: www. Lossiemouth 1 (80), Radford (89), Tile Hill (22), Tommies childcare topsdaynurseries.co.uk Lossiemouth 2 (60) – all in Whitley (37); Balsall Common, Head office: Unit 10 Colliers Director: Cheryl Hadland Moray. Accredited training run Solihull (76) Way, Spring Hill Industrial Park, Established: 1990 through a college offering SVQs Places: 224 Coventry CV7 8HN Owns 16 nurseries: Gillingham in childcare and education. Employees: 60 Tel: 01676 540244 (112), Boscombe (135), Places: 200 Email: info@tommies Bournemouth, Royal Employees: 16 tiny toez childcare.co.uk Bournemouth Hospital (131), Head office: Bredon House, Website: www.tommies Charminster (59), Corfe Mullen Townsend Suite G3, 321 Tettenhall childcare.co.uk (86), Parkstone (56), Poole montessori nurseries Road, Wolverhampton Directors: Caroline Fooks (129), Sturminster Newton (58), Head office: The Grange WV6 0JZ (chief executive), Matt Fooks Wareham (47), Wimborne (98) Montessori, Westcliffe Road, Tel: Contact each nursery directly (business manager), – all in Dorset; Newport, Isle of Ramsgate, Kent CT11 9LJ Email: [email protected] Website: www.tinytoez.com Directors: Ranjana Mair, Kamal Mair Established: 2004 Owns 14 nurseries: Burton-on- Trent, Staffs (60); Cannock Chase 1 (48), Cannock Chase 2 (83); London: Ealing (56), Feltham (116), Hounslow (56); Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs (98); Stoke-on Trent 1 (84), Stoke-on-Trent 2 (58), Stoke- on-Trent 3 (62), Stoke-on-Trent 4 (57); Stourport, Worcs (41); Tamworth, Staffs (95); Tipton, W Mids (66) Places: 980 Employees: 250 Plans: To introduce creche provision at Cannock Chase.

Toad Hall Nursery Group Head office: Glover Centre, 23-25 Bury Mead Road, Hitchin SG 1R2 Tel: 01462 427020 Email: headoffice@toadhall- nursery.co.uk

46 Nursery chains Autumn 2015 www.nurseryworld.co.uk Tel: 01843 852575 Tudor house Wind in the Willows *yMCA Email: [email protected] montessori child care YMCA is a federation of local Website: www.tmnurseries.com Head office: Tudor House Head office: 45 Cross YMCAs. Find your local YMCA Managing director: Montessori, Gloucester Road, Lane, Newton-le-Willows, at www.ymca.org.uk Philippa Townsend Burgess Hill, W Sussex Merseyside WA12 9PT Website: www.ymca.org.uk Established: 2005 RH15 8QD Tel: 01925 221010 Owns 38 nurseries and Owns 8 nurseries: Broadstairs Tel: 01444 241 491 Directors: Ginny Taylor, pre-schools: Bath YMCA: Bath 1 (85), Faversham (118), Margate Email: enquiries@tudor Neil Taylor (26), Bath 2 (26), Bath 3 (46), 1 (77), Margate 2 (72), Ramsgate housemontessorigroup.co.uk Established: 1993 Bath 4 (55), Bath 5 (38), Bath 6 (94), Whitstable (106), Website: www.tudorhouse Owns 6 nurseries: Newton- (55). Bournemouth YMCA: Maidstone (97) – all in Kent; montessorigroup.co.uk le-Willows 1, Merseyside (54), Bournemouth (25), Boscombe Forest Hill, London (89). Managing director: Carole-Ann Newton-le-Willows 2 (52); (30) – both in Dorset. YMCA Places: 738 Benson Pewfall, St Helens (29); Black Country Group: West Employees: 222 Established: 1998 Sefton, Merseyside (76); Bromwich 1 (119), West Plans: To expand in Kent Owns 6 nurseries: Burgess Hill 1 Warrington, Cheshire 1 (29), Bromwich 2 (52); and London. (30), Burgess Hill 2 (48), Warrington 2 (93) Wolverhampton (53) – all W Burgess Hill 3 (70); Haywards 2 after-school clubs: Newton- Midlands. YMCA Fairthorne Treetops Nurseries Heath (44); Lindfield 1 (30), le-Willows 1 (16), Newton-le- Group: Isle of Wight 1 (86), Isle of Acquired Happy Child in 2014. Lindfield 2 (28) – all in W Sussex Willows 2 (40) – both in Wight 2 (56); Portsmouth 1 (53), Head office: 1 St James’ Places: 250 Merseyside Portsmouth 2 (72), Portsmouth Court, Friar Gate, Derby Employees: 85 Places: 333 3 (58); Southampton 1 (30), DE1 1BT Employees: 80 Southampton 2 (128), Tel: 01332 223553 twinkles nursery Southampton 3 (30), Email: info@treetops group WYNgarth Southampton 4 (46), nurseries.co.uk Head office: Clifford Road, day nursery Southampton 5 (32), Website: www.treetops Boston Spa, Wetherby Head office: Wyngarth, 26 Kings Southampton 6 (108); nurseries.co.uk LS23 6DB Road, Westend, Colwyn Bay, Winchester (30) – all in Hants. Chief executive officer: Tel: 01937 849588 Colwyn LL29 7YH High Wycombe YMCA: High Charles Eggleston Email: jill@ Tel: 01492 533151 Wycombe, Bucks (20). YMCA Established: 1990 twinklesnurseries.com Website: www.wyngarth Somerset Coast: North Somerset Owns 49 nurseries: Ashbourne Website: www.twinkles daynursery.com (60). YMCA Southport: (50), Barlborough (83), Belper 1 nurseries.com Director: Victoria Neale Southport, Merseyside (52). (90), Belper 2 (90), Derby (64), Owner: Jill Johnson Established: 2006 YMCA St Helens: St Helens, Duffield (58), Matlock (82), Established: 2003 Owns 3 nurseries: Bangor (36); Merseyside (96). YMCA Suffolk: Oakwood (65) – all in Owns 5 nurseries: Boston Spa, Llandudno Junction (36); Lowestoft 1 (51), Lowestoft 2 Derbyshire; Biggleswade (142), W Yorks (93); Knaresborough, N Westend (56) (55) – both in Suffolk.YMCA Sandy (78), Stotford (60) – all Yorks (92); Leeds 1 (108), Leeds 1 out-of-school club: Thames Gateway: Dartford 1, in Beds; Birlingham, Worcs (62); 2 (90); Wetherby, W Yorks (97) Glanwydden (18) Kent (62), Dartford 2 (24); Bolton, Lancs (78); 3 out-of-school clubs: 88 Places: 128 Romford, London(24); Bromborough, Merseyside (68); Places: 568 Employees: 30 Swanscombe, Kent (16). YMCA Cheam, Surrey (62); Employees: 132 West and Central Herts: Abbots Cheltenham 1 (56), Cheltenham Plans: Developing a number of yellow dot nursery Langley (94); Hatfield (73) – 2 (90); Chester, Cheshire (76); locations due for completion in Head office: The Pavilion Yellow both in Herts. YMCA Deeping St James, Lincs (50); 2016 as well as extending a Dot Nursery, Otterbourne, Hants Worcestershire: Kidderminster Dudley, W Midlands (75); couple of current provisions. SO21 2HJ (42); Malvern (24); Redditch Epsom, Surrey (71); Irby, Wirral Email: jane@ (52) – all Worcs (70); Kettering, Northants (90); White Horse Child yellowdotnursery.co.uk Places: 1,999 London: Ealing 1 (39), Ealing 2 Care/The Trees Day Website: www.yellow Employees: 1,000+ (52), Ealing 3 (50), Fulham Care Nurseries dotnursery.co.uk (130), Harlesden (66), Harrow Head office: Stanley House, Directors: Jane Dyke, zoom nurseries (50), Kenton (58), Kilburn (70), 64-65 Victoria Road, Swindon, Trevor Dyke Head office: 5 Lionel Road, Mottingham 1 (58), Mottingham Wilts SN1 3BB Established: 1997 Eltham, London SE9 6QD 2 (26), Northfields (35), West Tel: 01793 488988 Owns 10 nurseries and 1 Tel: 020 8469 9795 Ealing 1 (18), West Ealing 2 (35), Email: [email protected] kindergarten: Ampfield (64), Email: bella@zoom Teddington (63); Gloucester Website: www.thetrees.co.uk Andover (75), Chandlers Ford 1 nurseries.com (68); Headingley, Leeds (54); Directors: Richard Lay, Lester (64), Chandlers Ford 2 – Website: www.zoom Hyde, Cheshire (90); King’s Lay, Lloyd Lay, Peter Lay Kindergarten (26), Chilworth nurseries.com Heath, Birmingham (74); Established: 1989 (64), Eastleigh (75), Fair Oak Directors: Bella Landen, Mansfield, Notts (75); Neston, Owns 6 nurseries: Devizes, (64), Hedge End (64), North Sophie Hubble Merseyside (65); Pudsey, Leeds Wilts (68); Eastleigh, Hants Baddesley (64), Otterbourne Established: 2003 (92); St Neots, Cambs (93); (93); Southampton 1, Hants (86), Winchester (75) – all Owns 5 nurseries London: Sutton, Surrey (43); Tewkesbury, (85), Southampton 2 (83); in Hants Blackheath (71), Brockley (103), Glos (56); Toton, Nottingham Swindon 1, Wilts (88), Swindon Places:721 Eltham (71), Hither Green 1 (74), (65); Worksop, Notts (85) 2 (74) Employees: 395 Hither Green 2 (30) Places: 3,320 Places: 491 Plans: Opening a nursery (64) in Places: 349 Employees: 800 Employees: 148 Romsey in September 2016 Employees: 120

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