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1ST SAFARI DAY Tel: 01908 510309 Street (49), Park Grove (149), West Bridgford 1, Notts (53), NURSERIES Email: info@acorn Partridge Road (55), Whitchurch West Bridgford 2 (58) Head office: Safari House, earlyyears.org.uk (84); Coleg Morgannwg, Places: 1,707 Hospital Lane, Selby YO8 3RE Website: www.acorn Nantgarw (60); Duffryn, Employees: Approx 535 Email: [email protected] earlyyears.org.uk Newport (48) Website: www.1stsafari.co.uk Chief executive: Zoë Raven Manages 3 nurseries: Bristol, ALPHA NURSERIES Directors: Nick Porter, Established: 1989 Aviva (33); Cardiff, BBC Wales GROUP Anthea Porter Owns/manages 10 nurseries: (61); Newport, Office for Alpha Nurseries and Alpha Established: 2005 Beds: Sharnbrook (60); National Statistics (35) Community Nurseries Owns 5 nurseries: Bradford: Brafield-on-the-Green (40), Places: 749 Head office: 59 Crabbe Street, Great Horton (63), Thornton Burton Latimer (80), Stanwick Employees: 379 Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 5HT (71); Keighley, W Yorks (45); (56) – Northants; Milton Keynes: Plans: Further expansion. Tel: 01473 322600 Barnsley, S Yorks (112); Castlethorpe (36), Fishermead Email: enquiries@alpha- Chapeltown, Sheffield (117) (60), Kents Hill (56), New ALL ABOUT CHILDREN nurseries.co.uk Places: 408 Bradwell (33), Shenley Church Head office: N/a Website: www.alpha-nurseries. Employees: 65 End (46), Westcroft (80). Also Tel: 07920 041315 co.uk; www.alpha-community- runs Forest Schools, out-of- Email: russellford@ nurseries.co.uk ABC EARLY LEARNING school clubs, training and a hotmail.co.uk Owners/directors: Head office: Hunter House consultancy. Website: Each nursery has its Jane and Chris Hewson Lodge, Lochmaben, Places: 547 own website, eg. www.west Managing director: David Finch Dumfriesshire DG11 1RP Employees: 242 fieldsdaynursery.co.uk Operations director: Tel: 01387 811197 Plans: New nursery in Stony Directors: Russell Ford, Nick Leeder Email: [email protected] Stratford opening in 2018. Marcia Viccars Area Manager South: Holly Di Directors: Ann McEwan, Established: 2010 Cicco Malcolm McEwan ACORNS NURSERIES Owns 21 nurseries: Bishops Area Manager North: Karen Established: 1988 Head office: Acorns House, Stortford, Herts (74); Bracknell, Smalley Owns 3 nurseries: Ecclefechan, 7 Park Grove, Cardiff CF10 3BJ Berks (148); Bucks: Aylesbury Established: 2010 Dumfries (20); Egremont (112), Tel: 02920 382009 (84), Haddenham (46), Halton Owns 25 nurseries: Boston, Whitehaven (53) – Cumbria. Email: seradownes@ (44), Beaconsfield (44); Lincs (47); Braintree, Essex (24); Also owns a training company. acornsnurseries.co.uk Cheltenham (64); Gloucester Dereham, Norfolk (34); Diss 1, Places: 185 Website: www.acorns (90); London: Clapham Junction Norfolk (46), Diss 2 (32); Dover, Employees: 41 nurseries.co.uk (69), Dulwich 1 (42), Dulwich 2 Kent (45); Downham Market, Directors: Martyn Hogg, (59), Dulwich 3 (55), Dulwich 4 Norfolk (48); Felixstowe, Suffolk ACORN CHILDCARE Susan Hogg, Peter Reynolds, (39), Paddington (100), West (42); Ipswich 1, Suffolk (42), Central Support Office: Cherie Wilson Norwood (120); Luton, Beds Ipswich 2 (24), Ipswich 3 (47), Unit C, Lincoln Lodge, Established: 1988 (114); Maidenhead, Kent (176); Ipswich 4 (44), Ipswich 5 (32), Castlethorpe, Milton Keynes Owns 8 nurseries: Bristol (100); Slough, Berks (134); Sutton Ipswich 6 (45), Ipswich 7 (41), MK19 7HJ Cardiff: Llanishen (75), Oakfield Coldfield, W Midlands (94); Ipswich 8 (26); Kirton, Lincs

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l This list includes details of all omitted some chains not denote the number of places it out-of-school care or holiday the private and independent known to us. If your chain is not is registered for. The number of places, but does include chains of nurseries, in our listing, please contact us employees includes full-time crèche provision and places in kindergartens, playgroups at [email protected] and part-time staff unless any nurseries that are owned and crèches known to Nursery and we can include you in the otherwise stated. Nurseries are and managed by each group. World. Under the term ‘chain’, next edition of Nursery Chains, listed alphabetically by location. The information in each entry we have included groups with due out in autumn 2018. reflects the state of play at the at least three nurseries up l ‘Places’ denotes the total end of November 2017. and running. l Individual nurseries have not number of registered nursery While we have tried to be usually been named. Figures places. This does not include * Denotes entries that are new comprehensive, we may have after each nursery’s location nursery classes in schools, for this issue of Nursery Chains. PHOTOS AT KIDS ALLOWED CHRISTIE FIELDS GUZELIAN FIELDS CHRISTIE ALLOWED KIDS AT PHOTOS

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(52); Lowestoft, Suffolk (76); East Ham 2 (71), Stratford (78), 31 Houndiscombe Road, Mutley, Garden City, Herts (70); Sandwich, Kent (38); Upton Park (60), Waterside Plymouth, Devon PL4 6EU West Bromwich, W Midlands Rotherham, S Yorks (39); Park (66) Tel: 01752 226767 (48); Wolverhampton, W Stamford, Lincs (49); Stoke-on- Places: 354 Email: city@ Midlands (54) Trent (60); Woodbridge 1, Employees: 70+ bambinosdaynursery.co.uk Places: 3,014 Suffolk (20), Woodbridge 2 (24), Website: www. Employees: 703 Woodbridge 3 (16) ANGELS AT PLAY bambinosdaynursery.co.uk Plans: To open 15 new nurseries 2 out-of-school clubs: NURSERIES Directors: William Lane, in the next year. Ipswich: Burlington Road (30); Head office: 1 Dockyard, Star Alison Lane, Jemma Honey St Margaret’s (32) Street, Ware, Herts SG12 7AN Established: 1993 BERTRAM NURSERY Places: 993 Tel: 01920 486487 Owns 4 nurseries: Plymouth: GROUP Employees: 250 Email: headoffice@ City (95), Plymstock (64), Head office: Newfield House, 1 angelsatplay.co.uk Tavistock (62), Woolwell (59) New Street, Musselburgh, ALPHABET HOUSE Website: www.angelsat Places: 280 Edinburgh EH21 6HY DAY NURSERIES play.co.uk Employees: 85 Tel: 0800 111 4954 Head office: Gunthorpe Road, Directors: Angela Spencer, Email: enquiries@ Lowdham, Nottingham Paul Spencer BANANA MOON bertramuk.com NG14 7EN Established: 1993 Head office: 8 Olympus Court, Website: www.bertram Tel/Fax: 0115 966 4556 Owns 3 nurseries: Hoddesdon Olympus Avenue, Tachbrook nurserygroup.com Email: headoffice@ (89), Ware 1 (50), Ware 2 (118) Park, Warwick CV34 6RZ Chief executive officer: alphabethouse.co.uk – all in Herts Tel: 01926 338497 Graeme Scott Website: www.alphabet Places: 257 Email: info@ Managing director: Cary Rankin house.co.uk Employees: 97 bananamoonfranchise.com Director: Tom Lyons Directors: Marie Brentford, Website: www. Operations director: Anthony Brentford ASHFORD PLAY bananamoonfranchise.com Julie Campbell Established: 1996 NURSERY SCHOOLS Directors: Mark Bates, Commercial director: Owns 4 nurseries: Beeston Head office: Strathmore, Mike Bates Susan McGhee (40), Lowdham (67), West 43 Albert Road, Ashford, Established: 2005 Financial director: Bridgford (85), White Post Kent TN24 8NU Owns 49 nurseries: Aberdeen Doug Aitchison (100) – all in Notts Tel: 01233 625301 (71); Altrincham, Cheshire (78); Established: 2006 Places: 292 Email: email@ Baddesley Ensor, Warwickshire Owns 37 nurseries: Employees: 92 ashfordplaynursery.co.uk (30); Billericay, Essex (72); Aberdeenshire 1 (64), Website: www. Birmingham 1 (94), Birmingham Aberdeenshire 2 (58), ALPHABET HOUSE ashfordplaynursery.co.uk 2 (50), Birmingham 3 (45), Aberdeenshire 3 (62); NURSERIES Proprietor: Val Webb Birmingham 4 (56); Bridgend, Bishopbriggs, E Dunbartonshire Head office: Alphabet House, Established: 1971 S Wales (78); Bristol (65); (97); Bury, Lancs (79); Castleton, Canberra Road, East Ham, Owns 3 nurseries: Ashford, Catterick, N Yorks (72); Lancs (80); Prestwich, Lancs London E6 2RW Kent: Albert Road (44), Albert Colchester, Essex (108); (98); Cumbernauld, N Tel: 020 8519 2023 Road Crèche (12), Wall Road Coventry, W Midlands (68); Lanarkshire (84); Dunblane, Email: razna_alphabet (44). Albert and Wall Road both Crawley, W Sussex (72); Stirlingshire (85); Dundee 1 (65), [email protected] have an 8-place after-school Gateshead, Tyne and Wear Dundee 2 (51), Dundee 3 (60), Website: www.alphabet club and summer school. (120); Gloucester (47); Harbury, Dundee 4 (98); Edinburgh 1 housenurseries.co.uk Places: 100 Warwickshire (48); Harlow, (120), Edinburgh 2 (58) Directors: Dele Balogun, Employees: 24 Essex (65); Hartlepool, Co Edinburgh 3 (69), Edinburgh 4 Kemi Balogun Durham (66); Hatton, (105), Edinburgh 5 (102); Falkirk Established: 1994 BAMBINOS Warwickshire (110); Heanor, (74); Glasgow: Ballieston (79), Owns 6 nurseries: London: Head office: Bambinos Derbyshire (49); Helsby, Garrowhill (61), Glasgow Airport Beckton (32), East Ham 1 (47), Childcare Centres, Cheshire (72); Hyde, Greater (91), Kelvinside (46); Haydock, Manchester (72); Kempston, Merseyside (112); Kirkintilloch, Bedfordshire (67); Kingsbury, E Dunbartonshire (120); Staffordshire (30); Leeds, Liverpool Princes Dock (100); Yorks (78); London: Battersea Manchester: Altrincham (50), (52), Chiswick (60), Croydon Astley (105), Shaw (83), (80), Greenwich (36), Swinton (140), University of Hounslow (65), Kingston (122), Manchester (86); Salford: Nunhead (36), Southwark (78), Salford (79), Salford Hope Wimbledon (60); Lower Hospital (63), Salford Quays Sundon, Bedfordshire (34); MediaCityUK (180); South Manchester 1 (42), Manchester 2 Lanarkshire College (75); Stirling (69); Reading 1 (65), Reading 2 (88); Telford, Shropshire (42) (72); Sale, Greater Manchester Places: 3,109 (71); Sheffield, S Yorks (65); St Employees: 740 Albans, Herts (79); Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire (85); Sutton BIG LIFE GROUP Coldfield, W Midlands (62); Head office: The Big Life Group Walsall, W Mids (68); Welwyn HQ, 1st Floor, 463 Stretford

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Road, Manchester M16 9AB BRIGHTER BEGINNINGS (68), Crewe (104), Tytherington Streatham (50), St John’s Wood Tel: 0161 848 2420 DAY NURSERIES (90), Wilmslow 1 (95), Wilmslow (80), Sunbury (50), Sutton (55), Email: laura.price@ Head office: Newhall Farm, 2 (80); Chesham, Bucks (68); Tabard Square (96), Teddington biglifefamilies.com Stocks Lane, Over Peover, Cirencester, Glos (78); Crawley 1, 1 (80), Teddington 2 (86), Website: www.biglife Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9HA W Sussex (40), Crawley 2 (64); Tooting (156), Twickenham 1 nurseries.com Tel: 07436 289011 Derby (57); Edinburgh 1 (59), (44), Twickenham 2 (57), Directors: Caroline Price, Email: naeem@ Edinburgh 2 (34), Edinburgh 3 Twickenham 3 (71), Wandsworth Joanne Ryan brighterbeginnings.co.uk (101), Edinburgh 4 (65), Common (68), Wembley (112), Established: 2004 Directors: Gill Race Edinburgh 5 (112), Edinburgh 6 West Dulwich (76), Westferry Owns/manages 6 nurseries: (co-founder), David Race (75), Edinburgh 7 (70); Essex: Circus (30), West Hampstead Manchester 1 (66), Manchester 2 (co-founder), Naeem Akhtar Brentwood (130), Chigwell (109), (164), Whitehall – MoD (38), (62), Manchester 3 (112); (director for business Epping (92), Gaynes Park (66), Wimbledon (93); Manchester 1 Stockton-on-Tees 1 (53), development), Jayne Haigh Loughton (56), Saffron Walden 1 (144), Manchester 2 (100), Stockton-on-Tees 2 (20), (director for quality), Sharon (85), Saffron Walden 2 (91), Manchester 3 (100), Manchester Stockton-on-Tees 3 (16). Also Street (director for training), Woodford Green (60); Glasgow 4 (72), Manchester 5 (70); runs 4 children’s centres Tom Race (director of HR and (72); Hants: Andover (40), Northampton (58); Oxon: Places: 329 premises) Basingstoke (90), Elvetham Abingdon 1 (148), Abingdon 2 Employees: 120 Owns 10 nurseries: Manchester: Heath (120), Farnborough (104), (114), Didcot 1 (92), Didcot 2 Burnage (52), Rusholme (52), Southampton (81); Herts: (63), Oxford 1 (54), Oxford 2 BLUEBELL CHILDREN’S Charlestown (117), Fallowfield Harpenden (43), Hemel (62), Oxford 3 (47), Oxford 4 NURSERIES* (52), Hallam (53), New Moston Hempstead (54), Watford 1 (92), (144), Oxford 5 (100), Oxford 6 Head office: Dittons Road, (67), Newton Heath (83), Watford 2 (63); Kent: (84), Oxford 7 (98), Wallingford Stone Cross, Pevensey, East Wetherby Street (72); Oldham: Beckenham 1 (71), Beckenham 2 (134); Poole, Dorset (42); Sussex BN24 5ES Chadderton (72), Fitton Hill (50) (43), Bexleyheath (92), Bickley Salisbury, Wilts (65); Sheffield 1, Tel: 01323 487081 Places: 670 (92), Bromley (65), Dartford S Yorks (84), Sheffield 2 (51), Email: barn@bluebellnurseries. Employees: 250+ (275), Kings Hill (129), Maidstone Sheffield 3 (56); Suffolk: Bury St co.uk 1 (80), Maidstone 2 (54), Edmunds (97), Ipswich (88), Website: www. BRIGHT HORIZONS Swanscombe (186), Sevenoaks Sudbury (79); Surrey: Dorking bluebellnurseries.co.uk FAMILY SOLUTIONS (63), Tonbridge (68), Tunbridge (69), Banstead (83), Camberley Operations manager: Clair Acquired Asquith Day Nurseries Wells (79); Lancaster, Lancs (80), Caterham (98), Church Coope and Pre-Schools in 2016 (63); Leeds 1, Yorks (159), Leeds Crookham (80), Egham (66), Owns 3 nurseries: Stone Cross, Head office: 2 Crown Court, 2 (61); Liverpool 1 (89), Liverpool Epsom (70), Esher 1 (87), Esher 2 Pevensey (62), Bluebell Hill, Rushden, Northants 2 (60); London: Bank Street (50), Godalming (56), Guildford Eastbourne (62), Heathfield NN10 6BS (53), Barnes (79), Barnet (35), 1 (96), Guildford 2 (60), Hatton (40) – all in East Sussex Tel: 01933 415900 Beaufort Park (102), Brentford Hill (94), Hinchley Wood (78), Places: 164 Email: generalenquiries@ (72), Bridgewater Square (54), Reigate (96), Sunbury-on- Employees: 58 brighthorizons.com Broadgate (80), Canada Square Thames (50), Woking 1 (64), Website: www.bright (157), Carshalton (65), Cheam Woking 2 (80), Weybridge (86); BOWS AND ARROWS horizons.co.uk (80), Chelsea (37), Chiswick Swindon, Wilts (45); Warks: GROUP Managing director: (87), Chiswick Park (75), Barford (45), Gaydon (95), Operates 5 nurseries: Buttons James Tugendhat Clapham 1 (121), Clapham 2 (61), Kenilworth (67), Rugby (63), and Bows, Little Learners, The General manager: Lydia Hopper Columbus Courtyard (181), Southam (61) Children’s Triangle Nursery, Established: 1988 Coulsdon (84), Croydon (80), Asquith Day Nurseries and Wellington and WigWams Owns or manages 292 Crouch End 1 (88), Crouch End 2 pre-schools: Barnet, Herts Head office: WigWams nurseries: Aberdeen 1 (35), (79), Dulwich (33), East Barnet (140); Basildon, Essex (87); Nursery, Whitton Church Aberdeen 2 (62), Aberdeen 3 (86), East India Dock 1 (75), East Bolton, Lancs (87); Bristol (45); Lane, Ipswich, (67), Aberdeen 4 (99), Aberdeen India Dock 2 (74), Feltham (55), Canterbury, Kent (77); Cardiff Suffolk IP1 6LW 5 (53), Aberdeen 6 (58), Fleet Street (45), Finchley 1 (96), (51); Caterham, Surrey (72); Tel: 01473 240304 Aberdeen 7 (41); Barrow-In- Finchley 2 (86), Fulham (71), Cheadle, Greater Manchester Email: info@bowsandarrows Furness, Cumbria (62); Greenwich (52), Heron Quays (37); Cheshunt, Herts (62); group.co.uk Berkshire: Bracknell 1 (96), (162), Highams Park (48), Chigwell, Essex (49); Chingford, Website: www.bowsandarrows Bracknell 2 (50), Chineham Highbury (70), Highgate (55), Essex (65); Crofton, Kent (68); group.co.uk (144), Reading 1 (109), Reading 2 Hyde Park (46), King Charles Dartford, Kent (98); Derby (76); Director: The nursery is a charity (187), Reading 3 (52), Reading 4 Street – FCO (46), Kingston 1 Edinburgh (76); Epping, Essex managed by a board of (116), Wokingham (83); (82), Kingston 2 (73), Kingston 3 (65); Epsom, Surrey (99); voluntary directors; the group is Birmingham, W Midlands (64); (101), Ladbroke Grove (79), Lee Glasgow 1 (91), Glasgow 2 (102), overseen day to day by a group Bramingham, Beds (124); Park (48), Lewisham (63), Glasgow 3 (126); Harpenden 1, manager. Bournemouth, Dorset (86); Mount Carmel (84), Mount Herts (57), Harpenden 2 (93); Established: 2004 Bristol 1 (56), Bristol 2, MoD (117); Vernon (124), New Southgate Haslemere, Surrey (94); Hemel Owns 5 nurseries: Ipswich: Cambridgeshire: Addenbrooke’s (65), Northampton Grove (48), Hempstead, Herts (92); Aster Road (120), Hogarth Road Hospital (88), Cambridge 1 (152), Northwick Park (140), RAF Hinckley, Leics (104); Hull, E (60), Paul’s Road (48), Cambridge 2 (76), Cambridge Northolt (74), Raynes Park (62), Yorks (77); Kew, Surrey (66); Chevallier Street (60), Whitton Science Park (148), Ely (104), Regents Park (76), Richmond 1 Kirkby, Liverpool (67); Lichfield, Church Lane (110) Fulbourn (108); Cheltenham, (67), Richmond 2 (115), Staffs (79); London: Balham Places: 398 Glos (50); Cheshire: Callands Southfields (50), Southgate (68), Battersea (79), Chancellor Employees: 90 (111), Chester (60), Timperley (97), Spitalfields (49), Grove (78), Bromley (94),

24 NURSERY CHAINS AUTUMN 2017 WWW.NURSERYWORLD.CO.UK Eltham (47), Enfield 1 (80), (25); Epping (24) – both in Directors: Emma Jones, Great Moor (42), Reddish (60) Enfield 2 (52), Enfield 3 (44), Essex Helen Simpson Places: 167 Finsbury Park (103), Fulham Places: 23,325 Established: 1999 Employees: 36 (140), Golders Green (53), Employees: Circa 8,600 Owns 6 nurseries: Eltham (33), Harrow (86), Hatch End 1 (87), New Malden (58), Old Coulsdon THE BUSY BEES GROUP Hatch End 2 (74), Hounslow BRIGHT KIDS (46), Purley (61), Purley Way Operating under the Busy Bees, (97), Hendon (73), New Eltham Head office: Millennium House, (58), Selsdon (55) – all Surrey Careshare, Caring Daycare (69), Peckham Rye (72), Putney High Street, Studley, Warks Places: 311 (acquired 2014), Kinder (57), Raynes Park (47), B80 7HL Employees: 75 Nurseries (acquired 2014), Richmond 1 (66), Southgate Tel: 01527 452430 Just Learning, Nunu and (86), Teddington (97), Email: [email protected] BROOKLANDS Tibbi Tots brands, as well as Twickenham 1 (26), Website: www.bright-kids.co.uk CHILDCARE Bush Babies and Kids 1st Twickenham 2 (65), West Chief executive: Tricia Wellings Head office: 137b Market Street, (acquired 2015/16) and Hampstead (84), Wood Green Head of operations: Hindley, Wigan WN2 3AA Treetops and Bramleys (46); Macclesfield, Cheshire Emma Beard Tel: 01942 760044 (acquired 2017) (65); Maidstone, Kent (95); Established: 1999 Email: hindley2@ Head office: St Matthews, Milford, Staffs (71); Milton Owns 3 nurseries: Crabbs brooklandschildcare.co.uk Shaftsbury Drive, Burntwood, Keynes: Stony Stratford (113), Cross, Worcs (55); Northfield, Website: www.brooklands Staffs WS7 9QP Wavendon (65); Moortown, Birmingham (80); Studley, childcare.co.uk Tel: 01543 678450 Leeds (56); Nottingham (91); Warks (52) Owners: Ivan Rawlins, Email: [email protected] Portsmouth, Hants (70); 5 out-of-school clubs: Crabbs Linda Rawlins Website: www. Redhill, Surrey (102); Reigate, Cross (24); Matchborough, Established: 1990 busybeeschildcare.co.uk Surrey (109); Renfrew, Worcs (24); Northfield (24); Owns 5 nurseries: Ashton-in- Directors: Simon Irons, Margaret Renfrewshire (45); Studley (26); Wigwam at Makerfield (121), Garswood Randles, John Woodward, Sawbridgeworth, Herts (75); Wychall School, Birmingham (94), Hindley 1 (89), Hindley 2 Cheryl Creaser, Clare Phizacklea, Sidcup, Kent (48); Slough, (32). Also runs a training (134), Leigh (46) – all in Lancs Steve Eccleston, Keelie Leahy, Berks (64); Solihull, W academy offering short courses Places: 484 Louise Copson, Julei Bolton, Midlands (64); Southampton 1, to settings across Birmingham Employees: 144 Vikki Skinner, Anita Wilden and Hants (77), Southampton 2 and the West Midlands. Jitin Topiwala (72), Southampton 3 (69); Places: 187 BROWN BEAR Established: 1983 Surbiton, Surrey (75); Swindon, Employees: 65 CHILDCARE Owns and manages 342 Wilts (68); Thatcham, Berks Head office: 18 Douglas Road, nurseries: Altrincham, Greater (78); Tingley, Leeds (78); BRIGHTSPARKS DAY Hazel Grove, Stockport SK7 4JE Manchester (97); Apsley, Herts Tonbridge, Kent (100); NURSERIES Tel: 0161 483 7369 (88); Ashford 1, Kent (87), Tunbridge Wells 1, Kent (40), Head office: Meadow Hill, Directors: Renee Dickens, Ashford 2 (108), Ashford 3 Tunbridge Wells 2 (64); Purley, Surrey CR8 3HL Wendy Hartley (108); Ayr (81); Basingstoke 1, Warrington, Cheshire (109); Tel: 020 8660 2340 Established: 2002 Hants (98), Basingstoke 2 Wilmington, Kent (51); Windsor, Website: www.brightsparks Owns 4 nurseries: Stockport, (100), Basingstoke 3 (100); Berks (72); Woking, Surrey (84) daynurseries.co.uk Greater Manchester: Bredbury Bedford 1 (100), Bedford 2 (112), 2 after-school clubs: Loughton Email: [email protected] (37), Brinnington (28), Bedford 3 (73); Beverley, E Yorks (108); Bicester, Oxon (108); Birmingham: Aston (77), Edgbaston (116), Longbridge (64), Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (133); Bishops Stortford 1, Herts (55), Bishops Stortford 2 (80); Blaydon-on-Tyne, Gateshead (68); Braintree 1, Essex (87), Braintree 2 (100); Bridgend (108); Brighton, E Sussex (94); Bristol: Barrs Court (116), Bradley Stoke (92), Emersons Green (105), Portishead (91), Stoke Gifford (108); Bromborough, Wirral (105); Bromsgrove, Warks (86); Brough, E Yorks (108); Burntwood, Staffs (111); Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs (108); Bury St Edmonds, West Suffolk Hospital (96); Camberley, Surrey (78); Canterbury, Kent (79); Cardiff 1 (66), Cardiff 2 (100); Carshalton, Surrey (98);

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Chandlers Ford, Hants (114); Liverpool (55); Livingston 1, Albans 3 (120), St Albans Treetops Nurseries: Chatham, Kent (78); Cheadle 1, W Lothian (92), Livingston 2 City Hospital (51); Stevenage 1, Ashbourne (81), Barlborough Cheshire (67), Cheadle 2 (116); (103); London: Battersea (95), Herts (98), Stevenage 2 (112); (83), Belper 1 (90), Belper 2 Cheam, Surrey (88); Bexley Heath (100), Charlton Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham (90), Derby (64), Duffield (58), Chelmsford 1, Essex (96), (95), Chingford (108), Chiswick (86); Stokenchurch, Bucks (58); Matlock (82), Oakwood (65) – Chelmsford 2 (102); (74), Croydon 1 (112), Croydon 2 Stowmarket, Suffolk (106); all in Derbyshire; Biggleswade Cheltenham, Glos (64); (62), Enfield (120), Greenwich Sudbury Hill, Middlesex (99); (112), Sandy (70), Stotford (64) Chichester, Hants (99); (51), Hammersmith (56), Sunderland 1, Tyne and Wear – all in Beds; Birlingham, Worcs Chippenham, Wilts (106); Heathrow (100), Ilford (124), (129), Sunderland 2 (90), (62); Bolton, Lancs (78); Chislehurst, Kent (100); Chorley Leytonstone (100), Lewisham Sunderland 3 (82), Sunderland Bromborough, Merseyside (68); 1, Lancs (147), Chorley 2 (60); (68), Mill Hill (78), Royal 4 (99); Swindon 1, Wilts (76), Cheam, Surrey (83); Cheltenham Colchester 1, Essex (84), Victoria Docks (107), Swindon 2 (100), Swindon 3 1, Glos (56), Cheltenham 2 (90); Colchester 2 (109); Corby, Walthamstow (140), (106); Telford 1, Shropshire (52), Chester, Cheshire (77); Deeping Northants (85); Coventry 1, Wandsworth (118), Westminster Telford 2 (45); Thames Ditton, St James, Lincs (50); Dudley, W Walsgrave Hospital, Warks (117), (73); Loughborough, Leics (40); Surrey (89); Thetford, Norfolk Midlands (100); Epsom, Surrey Coventry 2 (54), Coventry 3 Maidenhead, Berks College of (73); Thurrock 1, Essex (98), (84); Gloucester (68); Guildford, (46); Crawley, W Sussex (132); Agriculture (85), Maidenhead 2, Thurrock 2 (92); Trowbridge, Surrey (104); Headingley, Leeds Darlington, Co Durham (88); Berks (90), Maidenhead 3 (80); Wilts (100); Tunbridge Wells, (54); Hyde, Cheshire (90); Irby, Daventry, Northants (97); Maidstone 1, Kent (112), Kent (90); Uxbridge, Hillingdon Wirral (70); Kettering, Northants Deeside, Flintshire (129); Derby 1 Maidstone 2 (50), Maidstone 3 Hospital, Middlesex (114); (92); King’s Heath, Birmingham (107), Derby 2 (110); Dundee 1 (30), Maidstone 4 (47); Walsall, W Midlands (25); (74); London: Ealing 1 (52), (58), Dundee 2 (92); Dorking 1, Manchester: Fallowfield (79), Wakefield, W Yorks (112); Ealing 2 (50), Ealing 3 (39), Surrey (44), Dorking 2 (52); Salford University (104); Market Warndon, Worcs (104); Ealing Common (39), Fulham Dunfermline 1, Fife (108), Harborough, Leics (118); Warwick, Warks (115); Watford (130), Harlesden (66), Harrow Dunfermline 2 (89); Melrose, Scottish Borders (75); General Hospital, Herts (46); (56), Kenton (72), Kilburn (70), Eastbourne, E Sussex (100); Meopham, Kent (104); Milton Wellingborough, Northants Mottingham 1 (58), Teddington East Kilbride (86); East Malling, Keynes 1, Bucks (96), Milton (100); Welwyn, Herts (46); (63), West Ealing 1 (18), West Kent (84); Edinburgh 1 (58), Keynes 2 (100), Milton Keynes 3 Welwyn Garden City, Herts (74); Ealing 2 (35); Mansfield, Notts Edinburgh 2 (93), Edinburgh 3 (101); Morden, Surrey (66); West Byfleet, Surrey (72); (75); Oaklands, Wirral (65); (90), Edinburgh 4 (55), Newbury, Berks (104); Weston-super-Mare, Somerset Pudsey, Leeds (92); Reading, Edinburgh 5 (85), Edinburgh 6 Newcastle (110); Northampton 1 (100); Weymouth, Dorset (52); Berks (58); St Neots, Cambs (95), Edinburgh 7 (132); Egham, (104), Northampton 2 (111), Wigan 1, Greater Manchester (93); Sutton, Surrey (46); Sutton Surrey (97); Evesham, Worcs Northampton 3 (92); (76), Wigan 2 (94); Woking 1, Coldfield, Birmingham (45); (110); Farnborough 1, Hants Northwich, Cheshire (107); Surrey (117), Woking 2 (65), Tewkesbury, Glos (56); Toton, (159), Farnborough 2 (96); Norwich: Norfolk and Norwich Woking 3 (77); Worthing, W Nottingham (65); Uttoxeter, Formby, Merseyside (66); University Hospital (114), Sussex (69); York (120) Staffs (77); Weston-super-Mare, Gillingham 1, Kent (112), Norwich 2 (112), Norwich 3 (112), 2 children’s centres: Godalming; Somerset (49); Worksop, Notts Gillingham 2 (98); Glasgow 1 Norwich 4 (72); Nottingham: Woking – both in Surrey (85) (81), Glasgow 2 (91), Glasgow 3 City Hospital (114), Clifton (55), 1 independent school: Meredale Kindercare: East Keswick (105), (59); Glenrothes, Fife (103); Daybrook (120), Long Eaton Independent School, Rainham, Harrogate 1 (60), Harrogate Godalming 1, Surrey (87), (113), Southwell (48), University London 2 (85), Harrogate 3 (126), Godalming 2 (136); Gravesend, of Nottingham (96), Wollaton Bush Babies Children’s Harrogate 4 (35), Harrogate Essex (116); Great Yarmouth, (96); Oxford (110); Perivale, Nurseries: Blaby (60), 5 (146), Leeds 1 (55), Leeds 2 Norfolk (71); Guildford 1, Surrey Middlesex (76); Peterborough, Countesthorpe (54), Glen Parva (130), Leeds 3 (75), York (35) – (86), Guildford 2 (84); Harlow, Cambs (104); Plymouth, Devon (75), Leicester (54), Oadby (52), all in Yorks Essex (105); Harpenden 1, Herts (67); Portsmouth, Hants (126); Thurmaston (86), Wigston Bramleys: Oxfordshire 1 (102), (64), Harpenden 2 (55); Preston 1, Lancs (60), Preston 2 Magna (49) – all in Leicestershire Oxfordshire 2 (89), Oxfordshire Haslemere, Surrey (88); (160), Preston 3 (57), Preston 4 Kids 1st Day Nurseries: 3 (88); Salisbury, Wilts (46) Haywards Heath, W Sussex (30), Preston 5 (136), Preston 6 Ashington, Northumberland, Places: 29,960 (72); Hempstead, Kent (76); (39); Quedgeley, Glos (105); Wansbeck General Hospital (112); Employees: 9,000 Hertford (44); High Wycombe, Rainham, Kent (81); Reading 1, Ashbrooke, Sunderland (108); Plans: To open four new sites in Bucks (91); Holmes Chapel, Berks (109), Reading 2 (93); Billingham, Tees Valley, Wynyard December 2017 and early 2018. Cheshire (105); Horsham, W Reigate, Surrey (93); Business Park (108); Bowesfield, Sussex (130); Hove, E Sussex Rotherham, S Yorks (85); Stockton-on-Tees (108); BUSY NOUGHT TO FIVES (74); Hull (60); Huntingdon, Rugby, Warks (84); Sale, Darlington (108); Durham, Head office: 10 Brimstage Road, Cambs (100); Inverness (80); Greater Manchester (66); University Hospital (99); Gayton, Wirral CH60 1XG Ipswich 1, Suffolk (94), Ipswich Salisbury, Wilts (93); Sandbach, Gateshead, Queen Elizabeth Tel: 0151 342 2714 2 (105); Kettering, Northants Cheshire (62); Sevenoaks, Kent Hospital (108); Gosforth, Tyne Email: [email protected] (112); Lancaster (151); (92); Shellingford, Oxon (55); and Wear (108); Hexham, Website: www.busy05.co.uk Leamington Spa, Warks (109); Shenley, Herts (110); Northumberland, Hexham Directors: Emma Collins, Leeds 1, Yorks (175), Leeds 2 Shrewsbury, Shropshire (119); General Hospital (112); Jesmond, Kevin Collins (100); Leicester 1 (130), Sittingbourne, Kent (77); Tyne and Wear (108); Low Fell, Established: 1992 Leicester 2 (116), Leicester 3 Solihull 1, W Midlands (100), Tyne and Wear (108); Newcastle, Owns 6 nurseries: (44); Letchworth, Herts (104); Solihull 2 (90); Southport, Quorum Business Park (108); Liverpool 1 (84), Liverpool 2 Lewes, E Sussex (51); Lancs (111); St Albans 1, Herts North Shields, North Tyneside (63); South Wirral (102); Lightwater, Surrey (50); (63), St Albans 2 (65), St General Hospital (112) Warrington 1, Cheshire (129),

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Warrington 2 (119); Wirral (84) Email: colchester@cheeky Places: 581 monkeysessex.co.uk Employees: 150 Website: www.cheeky Plans: Seeking sites for monkeyessex.co.uk expansion throughout the UK. Directors: Helen Palmer, Stephen Hall BUTTERCUPS Operations manager: Tracy Head office: 24a Popes Lane, Hughes South Ealing W5 4NB Established: 2002 Tel: 020 8840 4838 Owns 3 nurseries: Colchester 1 Director: – Earls Colne (66), Colchester 2 Carol Whitehouse (66), Colchester 3 (26) Established: 1980 Places: 158 Owns 8 nurseries: Chalfont St Employees: 70 Peter, Bucks (71); London: Acton Out of school: School drop-offs, (41), Brentford (52), Chiswick 1 collection and school holiday (42), Chiswick 2, Homefields club services for children up to (31), Ealing (72), Isleworth (52), the age of 8. Teddington (31) Plans: To open 3 new nurseries. Places: 392 Employees: 105 CHERRY CHILDCARE Head office: Frimley Road, BUTTONS DAY Ash Vale, Surrey GU12 5NZ NURSERY SCHOOLS Tel: 01252 546190 Head office: c/o Eduko Managing director: Nigel Rolfe Education, Regus, 400 Pavilion Directors: Trisha Fisher, Rachael Drive, Northampton, NN4 7PA Wolfenden, Zoe Rolfe Tel: 020 8840 3355 Email: info@cherry Email: admissions@ childcare.co.uk buttonsdaynursery.co.uk Website: www.cherry Website: www.buttons childcare.co.uk daynursery.co.uk CAROUSEL NURSERIES Owns 5 nurseries: Birmingham: Established: 1993 Proprietors: Eduko Education Head office: Glenfield House, Moseley (60), Northfield (40); Owns 10 nurseries: Addlestone, Established: 2001 69 Glasgow Road, Dumbarton Brockley, London (70); Surrey (106); Ash Vale, Hants Owns 4 nurseries: G82 1RE Northampton (55); Walsall, (120); Epsom, Surrey (94); Bournemouth, Dorset (101); Tel: 01389 763763 W Midlands (50) Hayling Island, Hants (34); London: Hampton (49), Directors: Anne Jenkins, Places: 275 High Wycombe, Bucks (62); Hanwell (86), Teddington (52) Claire Rowan Employees: 120 Langstone, Hants (52); Places: 288 Email: carouselnursery@ Pirbright, Surrey (73); Employees: 78 aol.com CHAPTER ONE Sandhurst, Berks (48); Website: www.carousel CHILDCARE Stoneleigh, Surrey (96); CARING nurseries.co.uk Head office: Country Park Weybridge, Surrey (30) KINDERGARTENS Established: 1995 Nursery, Dalkeith Country Park, Places: 715 Head office: 2 Ferro Fields, Owns 3 nurseries: Dalkeith, Midlothian EH22 2NA Employees: 200 Brixworth, Northants NN6 9UA Alexandria, W Dunbartonshire Tel: 0845 1771008 Tel: 01604 882241 (73); Clyde, Argyll and Bute Email: info@ CHERRYTREES Email: mail@caring (56); Dumbarton, W chapteronechildcare.com CHILDREN’S NURSERIES kindergartens.co.uk Dunbartonshire (75) Websites: www. Head office: 3 Abbey Road, Website: www.caring 1 out-of-school club: chapteronechildcare.com, Dunbar, East Lothian EH42 1JP kindergartens.co.uk Dumbarton (54) www.chapteronetreetops.com Tel: 01368 860555 Proprietor: George Wright Places: 204 Owners: Diane Gillam, Jon Gillam Email: [email protected] Established: 1992 Employees: 106 Established: 2004 Website: www.cherry Owns 6 nurseries: Daventry Owns 6 nurseries: Edinburgh: treenurseries.co.uk (90), Duston (104) – both in CATHERINE HOUSE DAY Kirk Brae (36), Douglas Gardens Directors: Lisa Bennet, Stewart Northants; Moulton Park NURSERY SCHOOLS (12), Shawfair (56), Treetops Bennet and David Robertson Industrial Estate, Northampton Head office: 9 St Agnes Road, Outdoor Nursery (30); Dalkeith, Established: 2000 (72); Peterborough Business Moseley, Birmingham B13 9PH Midlothian (70); Farnley, Owns 4 nurseries: Dunbar, Park, Cambs (112); Stratford- Tel: 0121 449 1444 N Yorks (19) E Lothian (83); Edinburgh (116); upon-Avon, Warks (55); Fax: 0121 449 1440 Places: 223 Hawick (64), Melrose (83) – Wellingborough, Northants (120) Email: info@catherinehouse Employees: 70 both in Scottish Borders Places: 553 daynursery.com Places: 346 Employees: 117 Website: www.catherine CHEEKY MONKEYS DAY Employees: 90 Plans: A new 150-place nursery housedaynursery.com NURSERY & PRE SCHOOLS at the Brooklands development Directors: Rita Howe-Douglas, Head office: William Harris Road, CHERUB NURSERIES in Milton Keynes, opening June Matthew Poray Colchester, Essex CO2 8JW AND PRE-SCHOOLS 2018. Established: 1987 Tel: 01206 574402 Head office: Lindsey Place,

28 NURSERY CHAINS AUTUMN 2017 WWW.NURSERYWORLD.CO.UK Anlaby Road, Hull HU4 6AJ Email: earlham@ CHILD’S PLAY Nottingham (88); Orpington, Tel: 01482 509598 chestnut-nursery.co.uk Head office: Unit 3, Kent (148); Oxford: Churchill Email: anlaby-manager@ Website: www.chestnut- Metropolitan Business Park, Hospital (131), John Radcliffe cherubnurseries.com nursery.co.uk Preston New Road, Blackpool, Hospital (128); Purley, Surrey Website: www.cherub Directors: David Saunders, Lancashire FY3 9LT (67); Reading, Berks (116); nurseries.com Steven Davies, Karen Broughton Email: info@ Sandhurst, Berks (88); Proprietor: Beaconhouse Group Established: 2002 childsplayblackpool.co.uk St Albans, Herts (51); Staines, Established: 1976 Owns 15 nurseries: Cambridge Website: www. Surrey (133); Swindon, Wilts Owns 3 nurseries: Beverley, (99); London: Barking 1 (89), childsplayblackpool.co.uk (121); Twyford, Berks (104); E Yorks (73); Hull: Anlaby Road Barking 2 (57), Barking 3 (76), Directors: David Sloane, Welwyn Garden City, Herts (75); (125), Leads Road (67) Barking 4 (80), Brixton (66), Sarah Sloane Winchester 1, Hants (124), Places: 265 Dagenham 1 (52), Dagenham 2 Established: 2001 Winchester 2 – University Employees: 53 (61), Dagenham 3 (69), Owns 5 nurseries: Blackpool College (68) Dagenham 4 (49), Forest Gate 1 North (80), Blackpool Marton Places: 3,869 CHERUBS NURSERIES (44), Forest Gate 2 (50), Forest (60), Blackpool Central (60), Employees: 1,686 Part of Childcare East Midlands Gate 3 (46); Norwich (71); Blackpool South 1 (60), Head office: Welbeck Road, Redbridge (63) Blackpool South 2 (120) CHILDCARE Mansfield Woodhouse, Places: 972 Places: 380 AND LEARNING GROUP Nottinghamshire NG19 9LA Employees: 351 Employees: 115 Operating under the Cranbrook, Tel: 01623 420940 Plans: To expand in Cambridge, Castle, Working Mums and Managing director: Susan Mills London and Norwich. CHILDBASE South West London Nursery Director: Robert Everist PARTNERSHIP Co brands Operations manager: CHILD CENTRED Head office: Kingston House, Head office: The Old Post Sarah Savage NURSERIES Northampton Road, Newport Office, Antlands Lane East, Established: 1993 Head office: Highwood House, Pagnell, Bucks MK16 8NJ Horley, Surrey RH6 9TE Owns 10 nurseries: Kimberley Maldon Road, Hatfield Peverel, Tel: 01908 211699 Tel: 01293 772561 (114), Mansfield 1 (55), Chelmsford, Email: [email protected] Director: Robert Shannon Mansfield 2 (55), Mansfield 3 Essex CM3 2JP Website: www.childbase Established: 1983 (63), Mansfield Woodhouse Tel: 01245 382582 partnership.com Owns 15 nurseries: Crawley, (147), Nottingham 1 (80), Fax: 01245 382581 Established: 1989 West Sussex (84); Guildford, Nottingham 2 (80), Ravenshead Email: info@childcentred Directors: Michael Thompson Surrey 1 (80), Guildford 2 (39); (120), Worksop (55) – all in nurseries.co.uk (chief executive), Virginia Haywards Heath, West Sussex Notts; Derby (55). Also offers Website: www.childcentred Mead-Herbert (managing (56); Horley 1, Surrey (50), wraparound care and holiday nurseries.co.uk director), Emma Rooney Horley 2 (72); London: Clapham clubs at various locations. Directors: Stephen Field, (operations director), Louise Hill 1 (86), Clapham 2 (66), East Places: 824 Melanie Field (deputy operations director), Sheen (77), Fulham 1 (45), Employees: 223 Established: 1995 Paul Thompson (finance Fulham 2 (74), Hammersmith Plans: To expand throughout Owns 6 nurseries: Colchester 1, director) (84), Mortlake (54), New Nottinghamshire. (88), Colchester 2 (48), Operates 41 nurseries: Malden (70); Shamley Green, Colchester 3 (46), Hatfield Aylesbury, Bucks – Stoke Surrey (39) THE CHESHIRE Peverel (60), Kelvedon (58), Mandeville Hospital (101), 1 after-school club: DAY NURSERY GROUP Witham (73) – all in Essex Aylesbury, Bucks (73); Horley, Surrey (36) Head office: Winwick Places: 373 Barnet, Herts (75); Bedford Places: 976 Hollins Drive, Winwick, Employees: 126 (108); Edgbaston, Birmingham Employees: 284 Cheshire WA2 8RS Plans: To develop existing (94); Buckingham (79); Tel: 01925 655498 nurseries and look at potential Cambridge: University of CHILDCARE SCOTLAND Email: winnick@ for new-build and acquisition. Cambridge 1 (120), University of Head office: Burnside House, cheshiredaynurserygroup.com Cambridge 2 (79); Chobham, Kilwinning Rd, Irvine KA12 8RU Website: www. CHILD FIRST Surrey (113); Coventry, Warks Tel: 01294 277950 thecheshiredaynursery.co.uk Head office: Moulton Lodge, (70); Cranfield, Beds, Cranfield Directors: Meg McLeod and Directors: Julie Mannering, Moulton Way, Moulton, University (92); Finchampstead, Yvonne McDowall Brenda Burling Northampton NN3 7RW Berks (71); Hemel Hempstead, Email: childcarescothq@ Established: 1999 Tel: 07831 635802 Herts (102); Hitchin, Herts (84); aol.com Owns 5 nurseries: Warrington 1 Email: [email protected] Hertford (69); Kettering, Website: www.childcare (31), Warrington 2 (116), Website: www.childfirst.co.uk Northants (116); Leamington scotlandnurseries.com Warrington 3 (80), Warrington 4 Director: Tom Shea Spa, Warks (116); Leighton Established: 1989 (78), Warrington 5 (137) – all in Established: 2007 Buzzard, Beds (99); London: Owns 9 nurseries: Aberdeen Cheshire Owns and manages Chiswick (88), Church Hill (86); (108); Edinburgh (105); Falkirk Places: 442 6 nurseries: Aylesbury 1, Bucks Southall (100); Luton, Beds – (68); Glasgow: Caledonian Employees: 120 (95), Aylesbury 2 (100); Luton and Dunstable Hospital University (59), Glasgow Banbury 1, Oxon (75); Bicester, (100); Maidenhead, Berks (91); University (79), Strathclyde CHESTNUT NURSERY Oxon (116); Moulton, Northants Marlow, Bucks (43); Milton University (56); Irvine (142), SCHOOLS (126); Welbeck Abbey, Keynes, Bucks (83); Newport Kilmarnock (119), Largs (48) – Head office: 177 Earlham Grove, Nottinghamshire (90) Pagnell, Bucks (64); all in Ayrshire London E7 9AP Places: 602 Northampton – Northampton Places: 784 Tel: 020 8555 9800 Employees: 187 General Hospital (109); Employees: 190

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CHILDREN 1ST Owns 6 nurseries: Leeds: Places: 276 Website: www.thecooperative Head office: Mayfield House, 1 Bardsey (22, plus 40 out-of- Employees: 95 childcare.coop Nottingham Road, Long Eaton, school), Farsley (46, plus 24 Group manager: Sally Mayer Nottingham NG10 1HQ out-of-school), Granary Wharf CLEAR DAY NURSERIES Established: 2003 Tel: 0800 6521052 (27), Headingley (20), Head office: Clear Day Nurseries, Owns 45 nurseries: Birmingham Email: enquiry.children1st@ Moorlands (27), Valley View (46, 157-173 Roden Street, Belfast, 1 (60), Birmingham 2 (120), breedonhouse.co.uk plus 40 out-of-school) Northern Ireland BT12 5QA Birmingham 3 (120); Bristol (84); Website: www.children1st 4 out-of-school play schemes: Tel: 02890 419199 Burton, Staffs (58); Cainscross, daynurseries.com The Grammar School , Rose Email: audrey@clearday Stroud (61), Cam, Dursley (48) Founder and executive chair: Court, Wigton Moor Primary nurseries.com – both in Glos; Carterton, Oxon Margaret Mason School and Chapel Allerton. Website: www.clearday (90); Chichester, W Sussex (60); Co-founder: Hugh Mason Also runs holiday clubs at nurseries.com Dewsbury, W Yorks (49); Directors: Adrian Mason, Cathy Bardsey Primary, Chapel Owner: Colin Johnston Leamington Spa, Warks (140); Griffin, Julia Mason (operations) Alterton Primary, Farsley – Operations director: Audrey Littlehampton, W Sussex (113); Established: 1988 Springbank Primary, Rose Court, McCracken London: Bounds Green (83), Owns 20 nurseries: Chesterfield The Grammar School At Leeds, Established: 2005 Charlton (62), Croydon, Mayday 1, Derbyshire (60), Chesterfield 2 Moorlands School, Valley View Owns 6 nurseries: Belfast: Hospital NHS Trust (65), (136); Clowne, Derbyshire (120); Primary and Wigton Moor Dundonald (96), Ulsterville Croydon, New Addington (84), Grantham, Lincs (112); Leek 1, Primary – all in Leeds. Avenue (83); Dollingstown, Hackney (44), Hounslow (90), Staffordshire (80), Leek 2 (32); Places: 188 Co Down (72); Glengormley, Islington (96), Maida Vale (109), Leicester (96); Lincoln 1 (96), Employees: 120 Newtownabbey, Co Antrim Waterloo (60), Wimbledon (57), Lincoln 2 (96), Lincoln 3 (90); (140); Portadown, Co Woolwich (52); Madley Park, Nottingham 1 (120), Nottingham CHILDREN’S PLACE Armagh (54), Bangor (100) Oxon (70); Maidenhead, Berks 2 (52), Nottingham 3 (90), DAY NURSERIES Places: 545 (84); Wythenshawe, Manchester Nottingham 4 (96), Nottingham Head office: 1 Hind Street, Employees: 193 (100); Newcastle 1 (116), 5 (120); Newark, Notts (80); Wyke, Bradford BD12 8JT Plans: To open 2 nurseries: Newcastle 2 (108), Newcastle 3 Sheffield, S Yorks (145); Tel: 01274 601575 Pipers Quay, Lisburn (100); (63); Oxford: Blackbird Leys (72), Loughborough, Leicestershire Email: office@ Waterside Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital (96), (96); Stoke-on-Trent 1, Staffs childrens-place.co.uk Londonderry (78). Oxford (62), Rose Hill (61); (140), Stoke-on-Trent 2 (96) Website: www. Reading, Berks (78); Places: 1,953 childrens-place.co.uk COMPLETE CHILDCARE Southampton, Hants (100); Employees: 642 Directors: Debbie Burke, GROUP Sutton, Surrey (66); Sussex David Burke Head office: i2 Offices, 450 University Nursery and Pre- CHILDREN 4 MOST Established: 1991 Brook Drive, Green Park, School (71); Swindon, Wilts: Head office: Children 4 Most Owns and manages 14 Reading, Berkshire Great Western Hospital (68), at Squirrels Wood, Cemetery nurseries: Bradford: RG2 6UU Walcot (61); Tadworth, Surrey Road, Audenshaw, Manchester Barkerend (61), Burnett Tel: 0118 965 4154 (56); Walsall Wood, W Midlands M34 5AH Fields (50), Daisy Hill (56), Email: enquiries@ (50); Watford, Herts (55), Tel: 0161 336 3221 Gateway (52), Great Horton completechildcare.co.uk Watford South Oxhey (60); Email: info@children (48), Heaton (32), Mayfield Website: www. Wolverhampton 1, W Midlands 4most.co.uk (40), Owlet (70), St James (40), completechildcare.co.uk (108), Wolverhampton 2 (50) Website: www.children Summerfield (39); Dewsbury Director: Alec Hodson Places: 3,460 4most.co.uk (51); Halifax (59); Huddersfield Established: 1986 Employees: 1,300 Owners: Nicola Sullivan, (53); Ravensthorpe (66) Owns 14 nurseries: Arborfield Plans: Looking at new Alison Davies – all in W Yorks (91), Bracknell (124), opportunities. Established: 2000 Places: 717 Finchampstead 1 (44), Owns 3 nurseries: Ashton-under- Employees: 200 Finchampstead 2 (60), Lower COUNTRYSIDE Lyne, Greater Manchester (36); Earley (80), Earley (28), NURSERIES Audenshaw, Greater Manchester CHRISTOPHER ROBIN Newbury (70), Reading 1 (47), Head office: Park House, (95); Hyde, Cheshire (76) DAY NURSERIES Reading 2 (60), Wokingham 1 Maidenhead Road, Cookham Places: 207 Head office: Elmdon House, (24), Wokingham 2 (59), SL6 9DS Employees: 90 116 London Road, Guildford Winnersh (83), Woosehill (33) Tel: 01628 476153 GU1 1TN – all in Berks; Banbury, Email: enquiries@ CHILDREN’S CORNER Tel: 01483 452554 Oxon (80) countrysidenurseries.co.uk CHILDCARE Website: www.daynurseries Places: 883 Director: Head office: Unit 1 Sandsgate, surrey.co.uk Employees: 280 Angela Palmer-Moore Sunnybank Mills, Farsley Town Director: Penny Owen Plans: To continue expanding in Established: 1991 Street, Leeds LS28 Established: 1986 Berks and Oxon. Owns 7 nurseries: Burnham, Tel: 0113 257 5625 Owns 5 nurseries: Cranleigh, Bucks (35); Cookham, Berks Email: info@ Surrey (44); Guildford, Surrey: THE CO-OPERATIVE (39); Flackwell Heath 1, Bucks childrenscornerchildcare.co.uk Burpham (52), London Road CHILDCARE (33), Flackwell Heath 2 (25); Website: www. (74), Wood Street Village (46); Head office: Co-operative Henley-on-Thames, Oxon (75); childrenscornerchildcare.co.uk Woking, Surrey (60). Also House, Warwick Technology Sunninghill, Berks (42); Windsor, Directors: Lesley Dawson, operates children’s centre at Park, Warwick CV34 6DA Berks (50) Allan Dawson Cranleigh (community services Tel: 0800 954 0669 Places: 299 Established: 1998 for families and young children). Email: [email protected] Employees: 100

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CRANLEY NURSERIES CYBERTOTS Website: www.daisychain Website: www.domalo Head office: 226 Braid Road, Head office: 38 Heathfield childcare.com childcare.co.uk Edinburgh EH10 6NZ Road, London W3 8EJ Directors: Jo Gomersall, Directors: JF and MC Scott Tel: 0131 445 2227 Tel: 020 8560 5821 Helen Somers Established: 1994 Email: enquiries@ Email: [email protected] Established: 2001 Owns 4 nurseries: The New cranleynurseries.co.uk Website: www.cybertots.co.uk Owns 4 nurseries: Leeds: Adel Village, Lees (45), The Park, Owner: Anna Maclean Directors: Nina Ozols, Katya (54), Middleton (52), Rothwell Werneth (60), The Hillside, Group director: Karen Murray Ozols, Irena Mailer (50); Wakefield (52) Sholver (62) – all in Oldham; Established: 2000 Established: 1998 Places: 208 Stepping Stones, Hazel Grove, Owns 4 nurseries: Edinburgh: Owns 5 nurseries: London: Employees: 61, and 12 bank staff Stockport (45). The three Buckstone (71), Colinton (25), Acton (27), Brentford (120), Oldham nurseries each have 20 Craiglockhart (57), Lanark Hanwell (37), Northolt (20), DAVIDSON ROBERTS places for before- and after- Road (69) West Ealing (58) Head office: Manor Farm, 76 school clubs. Places: 222 Places: 262 London Road, Sandy, Places: 212 Employees: 50 Employees: 114 Bedfordshire SG19 1DZ Employees: 50+ Tel: 01767 688713 CRÈCHE-N-CO CYGNETS DAY Email: info@ EARLY DAYS NURSERIES* Head office: Office 32, NURSERIES* davidson-roberts.co.uk Head office: 10 Walker Street, Arrowmill, Rochdale OL11 2YW Head office: Hartwood House, Website: www.davidson- Edinburgh EH3 7LA Tel: 01706 641781 High Street, Bordon, Hampshire roberts.co.uk Tel: 0131 226 6184 Email: crè[email protected] GU35 0AU Director: Jane Roberts Email: enquiries@ Director: Lorraine Darlington Tel: 01420 487000 Established: 2006 earlydaysnurseries.org.uk Established: 1989 Email: cygnetsnursery@ Owns 7 nurseries: Buckden (70), Website: www.earlydaysnursery. Owns/manages 5 nurseries: btconnect.com Gamlingay (35), Ramsey (60) org.uk Bury, Lancs: Fairfield General Website: www. – all in Cambs; Rushden, Director: Maureen Crandles Hospital (68), Woodfields (60); cygnetsdaynurseries.co.uk Northants (70); Sandy, Beds Established: 1999 Rochdale: Hopwood Hall Managing director and (77); Royston, Herts (100); Owns 4 nurseries: Edinburgh 1 College (60, plus 50-place operations director: Marion Flitwick, Beds (85) (65), Edinburgh 2 (80), holiday playscheme), Newbold Cusworth 8 out-of-school clubs: Edinburgh 3 – Palmerston Place (46), Sandbrook (60) Director: Bronwen Clark Gamlingay, Little Paxton, (65) and Old Coates House Places: 294 Established: 2004 Ramsey, St Neots, Alconbury – (45), Edinburgh 4 – Walker Employees: 72 Owns 4 nurseries: Bordon (75), all in Cambs; Royston, Herts; Street Nursery School (30) and Bordon Nursery School (36), Rushden, Northants; Sandy, Walker Street Nursery (48) CRYSTAL CHILDCARE Lindford (30) – all in Hants; Beds Places: 333 Head office: 202 Venner Road, Bournemouth, Dorset (54) 3 holiday clubs: Huntingdon, St Sydenham, London SE26 5HT Places: 195 Ives, St Neots – all in Cambs EARLYWORLD Tel: 020 8659 6417 Employees: 46 Places: 497 CHILDCARE Email: cdn@crystalchildcare. Plans: Possibly opening a new Employees: 250 Head office: Darwin Court, Oxon co.uk nursery in the next six months. Business Park, Welshpool Road, Website: www.crystal DIZZY DUCKS Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY3 5AL childcare.co.uk DAISY AND JAKE Head office: Mayflower Nursery, Tel: 01743 244600 Directors: Lorraine Duffy, DAY NURSERY Stock Road, Website: www.earlyworld.co.uk Paul Duffy Head office: Billericay CM12 0RT Managing director: Established: 1988 349 Pensby Road, Pensby, Tel: 01277 636408 Paul Edwards Owns 3 nurseries: London: Wirral CH61 9NL Email: sian.millar@ Established: 1995 Anerley (59), Sydenham (30), Tel: 0151 648 9131 dizzyducks.co.uk Owns 3 nurseries: Shrewsbury Upper Norwood (26) Email: customerservice@ Website: www.dizzyducks.co.uk (126), Telford 1 (115), Telford 2 Places: 115 daisyandjake.co.uk Director/owner: Sian Millar (130) – all in Shropshire Employees: 40 Website: www.daisyand Established: 2005 Owns 4 out-of-school clubs: jake.co.uk Owns 4 nurseries: Billericay 1 Chester, Cheshire (72); Eynsham, CUDDLES DAY NURSERY Managing director: Lisa Collins (30), Billericay 2 (91), Hainault Oxon (72); Shrewsbury (74), Head office: Learoyd Road, Established: 2005 (80), Harlow (44) – all in Essex. Telford (74) – both in Shropshire Canford Heath, Poole, Dorset Owns 6 nurseries: Irby (95), Also runs an out-of-school and Places: 371 BH17 8PJ Little Sutton (100), Moreton holiday club in Billericay. Employees: 157 Tel: 01202 672671 (105), Prenton (100), Spital Places: 245 Managing director: (134), Upton (110) – all in Wirral, Employees: 150 EATON SQUARE Linda Duly Merseyside Plans: Looking for opportunities SCHOOLS Established: 1999 Places: 644 in London/South East. Head office: 79 Eccleston Operates 3 nurseries: Poole: Employees: 170 Square, London SW1V 1PP Canford Heath (229), Parkstone DOMALO* Tel: 020 7931 9469 (114), Poole Stadium (60). All DAISY CHAIN CHILDCARE Head office: The Park Nursery, Email: nursery@ three have breakfast, after- Head office: 2a Tile Lane, 103 Frederick St, Werneth, eatonsquareschool.com school and holiday clubs. Adel, Leeds LS16 8DY Oldham OL8 1RD Website: www.eaton Places: 403 Tel: 0113 2857000 Tel: 0161 652 1871 squareschool.com Employees: 106 Email: info@daisychain Email: catherine.scott@ Headmaster: Plans: To expand. childcare.com domalo.co.uk Sebastian Hepher

32 NURSERY CHAINS AUTUMN 2017 WWW.NURSERYWORLD.CO.UK Established: 1981 Tooting Bec, London SW17 8QD FLEDGLINGS FOOTSTEPS DAY Owns 3 nursery schools: Tel: 020 8672 7549 Head office: 2 Hazelfields, NURSERIES London: Belgravia (40), Established: 1964 Worsley, Manchester Head office: The Dairy Barn, Knightsbridge (32), Pimlico (32) Directors: Maria Keaveney- M28 2LS Mile Oak Farm, Plantation Lane, Places: 104 Jessiman, Eveline Drut, Tel: 0161 281 2821 Tamworth, Staffs B78 3DQ Employees: 40 Gordon Jessiman Fax: 0161 281 2822 Tel: 01827 285566 Owns 7 nurseries: London: Email: fledglings.hq@ntl Email: info@ THE EDINBURGH Raynes Park (57), Tooting (50), business.com footstepsnurseries.co.uk NURSERY Tooting Bec (36), Tooting Website: www.fledglings Website: www.footsteps Head office: 127 Broughton Broadway (41), Wandsworth 1 nurseries.co.uk nurseries.co.uk Road, Edinburgh EH7 4JH (63), Wandsworth 2 (57), Directors: Christopher Gray, Managing director: Gavin Tel: 0131 557 5675 Wimbledon (50) Michelle Smith, Jackie Kerr Harvey Email: edinburghnursery@ Owns 1 prep school: Tooting Established: 1990 Operations director: Dawn btconnect.com Bec (120) Owns 4 nurseries: Manchester: Huckerby Website: www.edinburgh Places: 354 Bredbury (90), Irlam (120), Established: 2002 nursery.com Employees: 220 Stretford (70), Worsley (120). Owns 9 nurseries: Cannock Director: Karen Fairlamb Also runs out-of-school clubs in (115), Canwell (48), Lichfield Established: 1986 EVOLUTION CHILDCARE Worsley and Irlam. (59), Stafford (81), Tamworth Owns/manages 5 nurseries: Head office: Grimsditch House, Places: 400 Dosthill (55), Tamworth Lich Edinburgh: Beaverhall Road 1 Grimsditch Lane, Lower Whitley, Employees: 142 Road (86), Tamworth Fazeley (50), Beaverhall Road 2 (18), Warrington WA4 4ED (65), Walmley (85) – all in Broughton Road (27), Tel: 01925 732600 FLYING START Staffs; Stratford-Upon-Avon, Broughton Street (9), East Website: www.evolution- Head office: Penweeth, Warks (100) London Street (18) childcare.co.uk 1 Trelawney Road, 1 out-of-school club: Places: 122 Proprietor: Sue Jones Camborne, Tamworth (50) Employees: 38 Established: 1999 Cornwall TR14 7LN Places: 694 Owns 4 nurseries: Lower Whitley Tel: 01209 611811 Employees: 260 ELMSCOT GROUP* (100), Warrington 1 (97), Website: www.flying Head office: 27 Warwick Road, Warrington 2 (95), Weaverham start.uk.com FOR UNDER FIVES Hale, Cheshire WA15 9NP (100) – all in Cheshire Owner: Head office: 33 Abbey Road, Tel: 0161 980 0003 As part of franchise: Balham, Sharon Cowburn Grimsby, Lincs DN32 0HQ Email: [email protected] London (50); Blackburn (80); Established: 1993 Tel: 01472 232300 Website: www.elmscot.co.uk Cheltenham, Glos (66); Owns 8 nurseries: Camborne Website: www.forunder Directors: S Molnar and D Cross Henley-on-Thames, Oxon (40); (30), Duchy College, Callington fives.co.uk Established: 2001 Newcastle (75); (25), Helston (55), Penryn (86), Directors: David Lang, Owns 4 nurseries: Hale 1 (65), Wolverhampton, W Mids (38) Redruth 1 (36), Redruth 2, Steven Lampard Hale 2 (75), Altrincham (70), As part of UAE franchise: Abu Cornwall College (96), General manager: Timperley (57) – all in Cheshire. Dhabi 1 (130), Abu Dhabi 2 – Saltash (64) – all in Cornwall; Amanda Gilbert Also runs 8 out-of-school clubs. Etihad (80); Bahrain (100), Plymouth, Devon (56) Established: 1987 Places: 267 Bahrain 2 (100); Batteen (80); Places: 448 Owns 5 nurseries: Cottingham, Dubai (120); Mushrif (120) Employees: 130 Hull (50, plus 8 out-of-school); ENCHANTED FOREST Places: 741 NURSERIES Employees: 175 Head office: Orion House, 7 Robroystone Oval, Robroyston FENNIES Business Park, Robroyston DAY NURSERIES G33 1AP Head office: 1a Hook Road, Tel: 01475 745794 Epsom, Surrey KT19 8TH Email: info@enchanted Tel: 020 8770 3222 forestnursery.co.uk Email: [email protected] Website: www.enchanted Website: www.fennies.com forestnursery.co.uk Directors: Sarah Fenn, Directors: Mariessa Devlin, Steven Fenn (chief executive), Bernie Devlin Chris Foot (financial) Established: 2006 Established: 1992 Owns 5 nurseries: Erskine (63), Owns 9 nurseries: Beckenham, Greenock (75), Inverkip (76), (73), Bromley (94) – both in Kent; Robroyston (81), Thornliebank London: Croydon (112), Purley (103) – in Inverclyde, Glasgow (113), Sanderstead (48), South and Renfrewshire Croydon (72); Horley (103), Places: 398 Epsom (130), Woking (123) – all Employees: 115 in Surrey Places: 868 THE EVELINE DAY AND Employees: 250-300 NURSERY SCHOOLS Plans: To open a new nursery in Head office: 30 Ritherdon Road, Wimbledon in 2018.

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Grimsby 1, Lincs – Diana Finance director: HAPPY DAYS NURSERIES Email: info@happykids- Princess of Wales Hospital (55, Siobhan Moore Head office: Chapel Town, childcare.co.uk plus 8 out-of-school), Grimsby 2 Non-executive directors: Summercourt, Cornwall Website: www.happykids- (77); Lincoln (64); Wath-upon- Maryann McCormack, TR8 5YA childcare.co.uk Dearne, S Yorks (120) Tony McCormack Tel: 01872 511020/ Directors: Steve Scott and Manages 10 nurseries and Director of childcare: 0800 783 3431 Deborah Scott children’s centres: Boston, Dearhala Cox-Giffin Email: enquiries@ Established: 2012 Lincs (59); Goole, Yorks (48); Owns 21 nurseries: Greater happydaysnurseries.com Owns 4 nurseries: Manchester: Grimsby, Lincs: Broadway Dublin area: Adamstown (96), Website: www.happydays Delamere Park (20), Heybury Children’s Centre Day Care (47), Blanchardstown (96), Celbridge nurseries.com Close (63); S Yorks: Clifton (39), Central Children’s Centre Day (130), Central Park (58), Directors: Jackie Arthur East Dene (70) Care (88), Franklin College (44), Cherrywood Science & (managing director), Sarah Places: 192 Queensway Children’s Centre Technology Park (96), Clonsilla Karkeek (founding director), Employees: 32 Day Care (42); Lincoln: Central (120), Elm Park (79), Grifeen (76), Kim Herbert (operations Children’s Centre Day Care (45), Harcourt Road (120), Irish director), Kevin Higgs HONEYBUNS NURSERY County Hospital (42), Financial Services Centre (96), (development director), Jo GROUP Welbourne Gardens (40); Leopardstown (106), Liffey Beighton (C&E director), Ian Head office: 17 Whitchurch Selby, N Yorks (53) Valley (110), Lucan (95), Sanders (finance director) Road, Wellington, Telford Places: 874 Milltown (110), National College Established: 1993 TF1 3DS Employees: 360 of Ireland (78), Navan (85), Owns 18 nurseries: Bristol 1 Tel: 01952 246 002 Northern Cross (120), Park West (100), Bristol 2 (82), Bristol 3 Email: office@ FOUNDATIONS FOR Business Park (96), Rathbourne (81); Bodmin (66), Falmouth honeybunsnurseries.com LEARNING (130), Rathfarnham (65), (67), St Austell (67), St Blazey Website: www.honeybuns Head office: 46 Cumberland Stepaside (144) (54), St Minver (30), nurseries.co.uk Drive, Esher, Places: 2,106 Summercourt (90), Treloggan Director: Alison Shipton Surrey KT10 0BB Employees: 455 (44), Treloweth (100), Truro 1 Established: 2006 Tel: 020 8398 1172 (42), Truro 2 (71), Truro 3 (67), Owns 3 nurseries: Cannock Website: www.foundations GRANBY NURSERIES Truro 4 (52) – all in Cornwall; Norton Canes (46), Stafford forlearning.co.uk Head office: Granby House, Derriford (146), Exeter (78) – (59) – both in Staffs; Telford, Chairman: Michael Brandon Aldwarke Road, both in Devon; Poole, Dorset (81) Shropshire (128). Also runs a Established: 1998 Rotherham, Places: 1,318 holiday club at Stafford. Owns 4 nurseries: London: S Yorks S62 6BU Employees: 350 Places: 233 Newham 1 (79), Newham 2 (33); Tel: 01709 710709 Plans: To continue expanding in Employees: 88 Bury 1, Lancs (99), Bury 2 (79) Proprietors: Joanne Gray, the South West and increase the Places: 290 Cameron Gray number of childcare places HONEY POT NURSERIES Employees: 54 Established: 1994 offered within the group, Head office: Chestnut Grove, Owns 3 nurseries: Rotherham, supported by Livingbridge, a Wavertree, Liverpool L158HS FUNCARE* S Yorks: Parkgate (96), private equity company. Tel: 0151 305 2022 Head office: 111 Wetherby Road, Wickersley (41); Worksop, Email: julie@honeypotnursery. Harrogate HG2 7SH Notts (49) HAPPY JAYS NURSERIES co.uk Tel: 01423 545980 Places: 186 AND CHILDCARE Website: www. Email: [email protected] Employees: 90 CENTRES honeypotnursery.co.uk Website: www.funcare.co.uk Acquired by First for Childcare in Nursery owner: Julie Hurst Directors: Ian and Josephine GROWING PLACES May 2017 Area managers: Jenna Geggie Thompson Head office: Growing Places Head office: Lancaster Park, and Melissa Kalli Established: 2005 @ Mill Hill, Mill Road, Audax Close, Clifton Moor, Food and nutrition manager: Manages 3 nurseries: Little Waterlooville, York YO30 4RA Michael Geggie Dragons (73), PlayAway (76), Hants PO7 7DB Tel: 01904 479261 Quality and training manager: Woodlands (54) – all in Email: manager@ Website: www.happyjays.co.uk Ashley Williams-Day Harrogate. Also runs a 90-place growingplaces.org.uk Owner: Sue Denton Established: 2007 before- and after-school club. Website: www.growing Established: 1996 Owns 5 nurseries: Liverpool: Places: 203 places.org.uk Owns 6 nurseries: Aigburth (44), Childwall (44), Employees: 98 CEO/group manager: Batley (80), Boroughbridge (45), Garston (65), Wavertree (91); Jackie Warren Harrogate (60), Scarborough 1 Birkenhead, Wirral (56) GIRAFFE CHILDCARE Established: 2001 (95) Scarborough 2, Eastfield Places: 300 AND EARLY LEARNING Owns 6 nurseries: Cowplain Children’s Centre (30), York (92) Employees: 100+ CENTRES (48), Crookhorn (48), Farnham 1 – all in Yorks Head office: Adamstown (72), Farnham 2 (48), Havant Places: 402 THE HONEYTREE Avenue, Castlegate, (54), Waterlooville (72) – all in Employees: 100+ DAY NURSERY AND Adamstown, Co Dublin Hants Plans: To open additional units PRE-SCHOOL Tel: 00 1850 20 10 99 6 out-of-school and holiday throughout Yorks over the next Head office: Weston General Email: [email protected] clubs: Cowplain, Emsworth, five years. Hospital Nursery, Chairman: Tony Kilduff Fareham and three in Grange Road, Uphill, (non-exec) Waterlooville HAPPY KIDS CHILDCARE Weston-super-Mare Managing director: Places: 342 Head office: 20 Cowley Drive, BS23 4TQ Simon Dowling Employees: 136 Chapeltown, Sheffield S35 1SW Tel: 01934 414471

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Email: weston@thehoneytree. HUMPTY DUMPTY Plans: To open new nurseries in Owns 33 nurseries: Accrington co.uk; portishead@ CHILDCARE Northolt and Buckinghamshire. (63); Atherton 1, Greater thehoneytree.co.uk; bristol@ Head office: Brimhay, Manchester (68), Atherton 2 thehoneytree.co.uk Gidley’s Meadow, Dartington, JANCETT CHILDCARE (96); Birkenhead, Cheshire Director: Philip Weston Devon TQ9 6JZ AND JACE TRAINING/ (63); Blackpool (54); Bradford Lead manager: Jay Sparkle Tel: 01803 866863 JACE CATERING AND 1, W Yorks (70), Bradford 2 (92); Established: 1989 Email: enquiries@humpty TRAINING Burnley 1, Lancs (76), Burnley 2 Owns 3 nurseries: Bristol (60), dumptychildcare.co.uk Head office: Jancett House, (71), Burnley 3 (48); Chorley, Portishead (84), Weston Website: www.humpty 16 Stanley Park Road, Lancs (56); Clitheroe 1, Ribble General Hospital (98) – all in dumptychildcareltd.co.uk Wallington, Surrey Valley (72), Clitheroe 2 (58); Somerset Director: Connie Wilcocks SM6 OEU Ellesmere Port, Cheshire (49); Places: 242 Established: 1989 Tel: 020 8669 1725 Fulwood, Lancs (98); Glossop, Employees: 50 Owns 3 nurseries: Dartington Founder Directors: Chris Derbyshire (70); Halifax, W (79), Dartmouth (42), Newton Pritchard, John Pritchard Yorks (57); Harrogate, N Yorks HOPSCOTCH NURSERIES Abbot (52) – all in Devon. Also Managing Director: Tracy (72); Leeds 1, Yorks (103), Leeds Head office: First Floor, 14 runs an out-of-school club in Pritchard-Drummond 2 (65), Leeds 3 (49); Lytham St Bavant Road, Dartington. Directors: Kirsty Pritchard, Annes, Lancs (78); Oxton, Brighton BN1 6RD Places: 173 Trevor Pritchard, Nicky Hopper, Merseyside (50); Preston, Tel: 01273 385577 Employees: 46 Stephen Drummond Lancs (98); Runcorn, Cheshire Fax: 01273 774154 Plans: Looking to expand. Established: 1969 (56); Sale, Greater Manchester Email: office@ Owns 4 nurseries: Carshalton (81); Sandbach, Cheshire (140); hopscotch.uk.com HUNGRY CATERPILLAR (60), Wallington 1 (106), Shipley, W Yorks (52); Website: www.hopscotch. DAY NURSERIES Wallington 2 (55), Wallington 3 Southport, Merseyside (78); uk.com Head office: 12, 17, 18 Park (50) – all in Surrey. Also runs 21 Spurstow, Cheshire (31); Business development Place, Newdigate Road, out-of-school clubs. Provides Widnes, Cheshire (76); Wirral, director: Barbara Watson Harefield UB9 6EJ traineeships, study Merseyside (61); Worsley, Operations director: Tel: 01895 678682 programmes, apprenticeships Greater Manchester (81) Jo Halling Email: info@hungry and professional qualifications. Places: 2,332 Established: 1988 caterpillars.co.uk Places: 271 Employees: 520 Owns 6 nurseries: Brighton Owners: Olivia Foley, Employees: 200 (88), Hove 1 (92), Hove 2 (56), Tim Hodgson KALEIDOSCOPE Hove 3 (44), Peacehaven (60), Established: 1999 JUST CHILDCARE DAY NURSERIES Seaford (92) – plus 1 out-of- Owns 10 nurseries: Bucks: Head office: Ridgway House, Head office: Adwalton Court, school club – all in E Sussex Chalfont St Peter (80); London: Progress Way, Denton M34 2GP Hodgson Lane, Drighlington Places: 432 Acton (32), Acton Park (30), Tel: 0161 320 2750 BD11 1BJ Employees: 180 Hanwell (60), Northolt (41), Email: enquiries@ Tel: 0113 2852 572 Perivale (20), Stanmore (37), justchildcare.co.uk Fax: 0113 2524 924 HOPSCOTCH West Ealing (35), West Twyford Website: www.just Email: headoffice@ DAY NURSERIES (50), Yeading (60). Also runs a childcare.co.uk knurseries.com Head office: Hopscotch Day crèche in Northolt. Directors: Jacqueline Johnson, Website: www.knurseries.com Nurseries c/o Funkidories Ltd, Places: 445 David Johnson Directors: Jane Middlebrook, 9 Fielder Drive, Employees: 128 Established: 2004 Steve Middlebrook Fareham, Established: 1990 Hants PO14 1JE Owns 4 nurseries: Acomb, York Tel: 02392 559 840 (80); Leeds: Drighlington (78), Email: danielle@ Gildersome (92), Morley (77) hopscotchnursery.com 7 out-of-school clubs: Acomb, Website: www.hopscotch York (32); Leeds: Gildersome daynurseries.co.uk (40), Park Grove (50), Lower Director: Freya Derrick Wortley (32), Hill Top (40), Finance manager: Morley (30), Drighlington (40) Danielle Protheroe Places: 327 Head of early years: Employees: 143 Belinda Rowles Established: 2005 KANGAROO POUCH Owns 4 nurseries: Botley, NURSERIES* Southampton (100), Head office: Oakham Library, Gosport (88), Lee on the Tividale, Oldbury B69 1RD Solent, Gosport (83), Titchfield, Tel: 01384 850599 Fareham (75) – all in Hants. Email: anita@kangaroo Owns a 200-capacity indoor pouch.org.uk play centre in Fareham. Website: www.kangaroo Places: 346 pouch.org.uk Employees: 150 Owner: Anita Patel Sahota Plans: To open one more Established: 2011 nursery in 2018. Owns 7 nurseries: West

36 NURSERY CHAINS AUTUMN 2017 WWW.NURSERYWORLD.CO.UK Midlands: Hateley Heath (52), Harborough (115), Melton (106); Crowthorne, (47), Knowlhill (149), Neath Hill Tividale (62), Charlemont (32), Mowbray (59), Shepshed (45), Berks (82); Enfield, Middlesex (83), Wolverton (42); St Albans Great Bridge (69), Harden (53), Whitwick (71) – all Leics; (101); Ilford 1 (30), Ilford 2 (161) Willenhall (60), Bloxwich (49) Northampton (75); Oundle, (100), Ilford 3 (112); Guildford, 8 out-of-school clubs: Places: 377 Northants (43); Redbourn, Surrey (129); Loughton, Essex Beaconsfield (32), Knowlhill Employees: 60 Herts (94); Rushden, Northants (60); London: Chingford (73), (90), Long Meadow (60), (96); Somersham, Cambs (95) East Sheen (36), South Portfields (48), Tickford Park KID EASE Places: 3,296 Woodford (55) (24), Willen (100) – all in Bucks; Head office: Kid Ease, The Employees: 1,250 Places: 952 Leighton Buzzard (32), Lincoln Prospect Centre, Southern Employees: 300 (32) – both in Beds Cross, Basing View, KIDDYCARE Plans: Further acquisitions in Places: 672 Basingstoke, Hants RG21 4HG Head office: 71 Melton Road, London and the M25 area. Employees: 280 Tel: 0844 854 6990 Leicester LE4 6PN Plans: To open one new nursery Email: [email protected] Tel: 0116 2681471 KIDS PLANET and expand one setting in 2018. Website: http://kidease.co.uk Email: nadine@kiddy DAY NURSERIES Managing director: Ian Atkey carenurseries.co.uk; Head office: 231 Higher Lane, KIDZCARE Established: 2001 [email protected] Lymm, Head office: Norwood House, Owns and operates Website: www.kiddycare Cheshire WA13 0NA 9 Kilgraston Road, Edinburgh 5 nurseries: Dover, Kent: nurseries.co.uk Tel/Fax: 01925 753 448 EH9 2DX Buckland (58), Triangles (102); Director: Kala Patel Email: mail@kidsplanet Tel: 0131 668 2797 Hawkinge, Kent (104); Swingfield, Operations manager: daynurseries.co.uk Email: [email protected] Kent (57); Norwich, Norfolk (61) Nadine Farrington Website: www.kidsplanetday Website: www.kidzcare.org Places: 382 Established: 1985 nurseries.co.uk Directors: Anne Marie Dunn Employees: 127 Owns 5 nurseries: Angels Directors: John Hoban, Established: 2001 pre-school (30), Kiddycare Clare Roberts, Lucy Owns 4 nurseries: Edinburgh 1, KIDDI CARU DAY nursery (65), Little Willows Kaczmarska, Rebecca Green, Craigmillar (25), Edinburgh 2, NURSERIES/MAGIC (45), Parkview (45) – all in Ben Barker, Mark McMenemy Astley Ainslie Hospital (99), NURSERIES Leicester; Royal Mail Childsplay, Established: 2008 Edinburgh 3 (66), Edinburgh 4, Both acquired by Les Petits Farringdon, London (30) Owns 22 nurseries: Cheshire: Portobello (54). Also runs 6 Chaperons Rouges in 2017 Places: 215 Beamont (39), Congleton (80), after-school clubs, 5 breakfast Head office: Tuscany House, Employees: 70 Crewe (67), Hale (85), clubs and 2 holiday clubs. White Hart Lane, Basingstoke, Lymehurst (75), Lymm (137), Places: 244 Hampshire RG21 4AF KIDS ALLOWED Warrington (94), Widnes (80); Employees: 175 Tel: 01256 383440 Head office: Joshua House, Davenport, Stockport (60); Email: marketing@ Christie Fields Office Park, Greater Manchester: Dukinfield THE KINDERGARTENS kiddicaru.com Manchester M21 7QS (80), Higher Broughton (160), Head office: 25 Mallinson Road, Websites: www.kiddicaru.com, Tel: 0161 434 6555 Prestwich (126), Sale (80), London SW11 1BW www.westchesterhouse.co.uk Email: [email protected] Salford 1 (130), Salford 2 (136), Tel: 01622 833331 Chief operating officer: Adrian Website: www.kidsallowed.com Springhead (55), Swinton (130); Email: registrar@thekinder Moore Chief executive: Jennie Johnson Merseyside: Billinge (78), gartens.co.uk Established: 1998 Established: 2005 Liverpool 1 (107), Liverpool 2 Website: www.thekinder Owns and manages 37 Owns 6 nurseries: Cheadle (88), Liverpool 3 (112), Liverpool gartens.com nurseries: Basingstoke, Hants Royal, Cheshire (192); Christie 4 (104) Director: Carol Evelegh (121); Bedford (75); Burgess Hill, Fields, Greater Manchester Places: 2,103 (principal) W Sussex (100); Chelmsford, (224); Knutsford, Cheshire Employees: 700 Established: 1991 Essex (100); Colchester, Essex (188); Macclesfield, Cheshire Plans: To open or acquire new Owns 13 nurseries: (103); Exeter 1, Devon (132); (174); Stockport, Greater nurseries in 2018. London: Balham 1 (46), Exeter 2 (111); Farnham, Surrey Manchester (188), UHSM Balham 2 (50), Battersea (68), – Westchester House Nursery Greater Manchester (78). Also KIDS PLAY Clapham 1 (160), Clapham 2 School (97); Harlow, Essex runs a training academy. Head office: 1A Roebuck Way, (60), Clapham 3 (60), (100); London: Earls Court 5 out-of-school clubs: (196) Knowlhill, Milton Keynes Fulham (30), Kensington 1 (104); Milton Keynes 1, Bucks Places: 1,044 MK5 8HL (100), Kensington 2 (28), (69), Milton Keynes 2 (89); Employees: 400 Tel: 01908 209211 Kensington 3 (60), Streatham Northampton (114); Plans: Opening a nursery in Email: paulsharp@ (60), Streatham Hill (40), Peterborough, Cambs (121); Altrincham in 2018. kidsplaychildcare.co.uk Wandsworth (80) Plympton, Devon (100); Redhill, Website: www.kidsplay Places: 842 Surrey (100); Taunton, KIDS INC NURSERIES childcare.co.uk Employees: 110 Somerset (129); Torquay, Devon Head office: Crown House, Managing director: Paul Sharp (105); Wellingborough, 227 Aldborough Road South, Childcare director: KINDER HAVEN Northants (103); Whiteley, Ilford, Essex IG3 8HZ Sharon Elliott Head office: 14a Waterloo Road, Hants (128); Writtle, Essex (118) Tel: 020 8598 2600 Established: 1999 Pudsey LS28 7PW Magic Nurseries: Hitchin, Herts Website: www.kidsinc Owns 8 nurseries and pre- Tel: 01132 577737 (95); Leicester 1 (80), Leicester nurseries.co.uk schools: Bury St Edmunds, Email: [email protected] 2 (57), Leicester 3 (29), Established: 2003 Suffolk (87); Leighton Buzzard, or [email protected] Leicester 4 (29), Leicester 5 Owns 12 nurseries: Aylesbury, Beds (44); London: Brent Cross Website: www.kinderhaven. (49); Kirby Muxloe (45), Market Bucks (68); Bluewater, Kent (59); Milton Keynes: Bletcheley co.uk

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Managing directors: Also runs before- and after- Chiswick (20), Fulham (20), Estate, Chancel Lane, Pinhoe, Danielle Dixon, Darren Dixon school clubs. Wandsworth (20), Wimbledon Exeter, Devon EX4 8JS Established: 2001 Places: 335 (30) – all in London Tel: 01392 469909 Owns 7 nurseries: Bradford: Employees: 105 Places: 110 Email: info@littleones Halifax Road (117), Pasture Lane Employees: 30 childcare.co.uk (85), Sticker Lane (98), LINCOLNSHIRE Plans: Future site locations TBC. Website: www.littleones Wakefield Road (102), Westgate CHILDCARE childcare.co.uk Hill (56); Horsforth: Wood Lane Head office: The Old School, LITTLE GARDEN DAY Managing director: Katie Porter (149); Waterloo Road, 107a-107b Dudley Road, NURSERIES Established: 2000 Pudsey (70) Grantham, Lincs NG31 9AB Head office: 3 Purden Street, Owns and manages 1 out-of-school club: Lower Tel: 01476 591744 London SW8 3BW 5 nurseries: Bovey Tracey (44), Fields (24) Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 7622 5552 Budlake (29), Honiton (33), Places: 677 Website: www.headstart Fax: 020 7622 5570 Westexe (38), Whipton (36) – Employees: 145 nurseries.co.uk Email: [email protected] all in Devon Plans: To open two nurseries in Directors: Sue Jenkins & Website: www.lgnurseries.com Places: 180 Bradford in 2018. Diane Smith Chief executive: David Hancock Employees: 70 Area manager: Rita McMath Area director: Beverly Hallett KIRKTONHOLME EARLY Established: 1989 Owns 4 nurseries: London: LITTLE RIPLEY DAY LEARNING AND Owns 5 nurseries: Bourne (80), Brentford (42), Clapham (72), NURSERIES CHILDCARE Grantham 1 (145), Grantham 2 Hammersmith (70), Kentish Head office: 42 Warwick Road, Head office: 57 Blair Road, (120), Market Deeping (109), Town (55) Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham Coatbridge ML5 1NG Ruskington (70) – all in Lincs Places: 239 B73 5PQ Tel: 01236 425912 3 out-of-school clubs: Bourne Employees: 66 Tel: 01213 547878 Email: sarah@ (32), Grantham (124), Email: [email protected] kirktonholmenursery.com Ruskington (40) LITTLE EINSTEIN’S Website: www.littleripley.co.uk Website: www. Places: 524 NURSERIES Directors: Ruth Appleby, kirktonholmenursery.com Employees: 109 Head office: Unit 5, Mitchelson Tom Oakey, Jenny Appleby, Area manager: Karen Flynn Industrial Estate, Kircaldy Sarah Oakey Development manager: LITTLE ACORNS GROUP KY1 3NF Established: 1988 Sarah Kelly Head office: Acorn House, Tel: 01592 722227 Owns and manages Established: 1995 Houghton Street, Warrington, Email: accounts@ 12 nurseries: Birmingham 1 (51), Owns 10 nurseries: Ayr (75); Cheshire WA2 7DD littleeinsteinsnurseries.co.uk Birmingham 2 (28), Birmingham Bearsden, E Dunbartonshire Tel: 01925 232202 Website: http://littleeinsteins 3 (50), Birmingham 4 (60), (102); Coatbridge 1, N Email: enquiries@ nurseries.co.uk Birmingham 5 (52), Birmingham Lanarkshire (64), Coatbridge 2 littleacornsgroup.com Director: Colin Smart 6 (60), Birmingham 7 (52), (67); East Kilbride, S Website: www.littleacorns Established: 2006 Birmingham 8 (55), Birmingham Lanarkshire (188); Govan, group.com Owns 5 nurseries: Arbroath 9 (90), Birmingham 10 (60), Glasgow (95); Newton Mearns, Managing director: (61); Dundee (43); Glasgow 1 Birmingham 11 (53), Birmingham E Renfrewshire (70); Neil Ritchie (66), Glasgow 2 (63); Perth 12 (60) Shettleston, Glasgow (73), Established: 1992 (116). Plus 24 out-of-school Places: 671 Tollcross, Glasgow (78); Operates 9 nurseries: places. Owns Thistle Training Employees: 218 Wishaw, N Lanarkshire (63) Gomersal, W Yorks (48); Company. Owns 2 after-school clubs: Manchester (65), Worsley (47); Places: 349 LONDON EARLY YEARS East Kilbride 1 (66), Mirfield, W Yorks (62); Rothwell, Employees: 90 FOUNDATION (LEYF) E Kilbride 2 (16) Leeds (43); Warrington 1, Head office: 121 Marsham Places: 875 Cheshire (98), Warrington 2 LITTLE ELMS DAYCARE Street, London SW1P 4LX Employees: 223 (48), Warrington 3 (40); Head office: 29 Beckenham Tel: 020 7834 8679 Plans: To open a new nursery Washington, Tyne and Wear Road, Beckenham, Kent Email: [email protected] in 2018. (98) BR3 4PR Website: www.leyf.org.uk Places: 549 Tel: 020 8658 4282 Chief executive: June O’Sullivan LILLIPUT MONTESSORI Employees: 170 Website: www.littleelms Established: 1903 DAY NURSERIES Plans: Looking to open two new daycare.co.uk Legal structure/status: Head office: Railway House, settings in the next 12 months. Directors: Matthew and Registered charity, company Hotel Street, Coalville, Leics Spencer Lancaster limited by guarantee and LE67 3EQ LITTLE FOREST FOLK* Owns 9 nurseries: Beckenham social enterprise Tel: 01530 813913 Head office: 106 Cottenham 1, Kent (134), Beckenham 2 (60); Manages 37 community, Fax: 01530 817898 Park Road, Wimbledon, London Crofton, Orpington (93); workplace and children’s Email: samgraveling@ SW20 0SX London: Catford (45), centre nurseries: London: aol.com Tel: 07707 545913 Greenwich (60), Greenwich Abbots Manor (25), Angel Directors: Samantha Graveling, Email: [email protected] Peninsula (47), Lee (77), Shirley (30), Bessborough (51), Bird in Paul Graveling Website: www.littleforest (65), Sydenham (46) Bush (55), Brixton (40), Established: 1994 folk.com Places: 627 Burgess Park (63), Carlton Hill Owns 5 nurseries: Anstey (79), Directors: Leanna and James Employees: 200 (66), Colville (46), Coalville (66), Glenfield (27), Barrett Conservatoire, Blackheath (45), Leicester Forest East (100), Established: 2015 LITTLE ONES CHILDCARE Earls Court (42), Eastbury (81), Whetstone (63) – all in Leics. 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Fitzrovia (24), Ford Road, MAMA BEAR’S DAY Proprietors: Samantha Britton, Places: 3,806 Dagenham (57), Furze, NURSERY Jarrod Britton Employees: 1,415 Romford (52), Gumboots, Head office: 1st Floor, 60-62 Senior manager: Plans: To open eight new Dulwich (61), Henry Fawcett, High Street, Hanham, Bristol Kristina Johnson nurseries in the next six months. Lambeth (47), Holcroft (31), BS15 3DR Established: 2002 House of Commons, Tel: 0117 958 2030 Owns 4 nurseries: Alford (86), MULBERRY BUSH Westminster (40), Katharine Email: tony.driffield@ Boston (90), Swineshead (63), NURSERY GROUP Bruce, N Kensington (57), mamabear.co.uk Wragby (70) – all in Lincs Head office: 741 Walmersley Leys (49), Marks Gate, Romford Website: www.mamabear.co.uk Places: 309 Road, Bury, Lancs BL9 5JW (52), Marsham Street, Directors: Bev Driffield, Tony Employees: 46 Tel: 0161 761 0169 Westminster (55), Micky Star, Driffield, Nicola Thorne, Kerry Email: jo.kinloch@ Westminster (64), New Cross Sturmey MONKEY PUZZLE DAY mulberrybush-nursery.co.uk (69), Noah’s Ark, Tower Established: 2002 NURSERIES Website: www.mulberry Hamlets (54), Pembury (55), Owns 23 nurseries: Bristol: Head office: Ground Floor, bush-nursery.co.uk Playhouse, New Cross (51), Brislington (72), Bradley Stoke 1 4 Churchgates, Berkhampstead, Directors: Joanne Kinloch, Paul Queens Park (44), (102), Bradley Stoke 2 (62), Herts HP4 2UB Robinson, Andrew Robinson Queensborough (39), Soho Clifton 1 (72), Clifton 2 (120), Tel: 01442 878887 Established: 1990 (43), South Bermondsey (104), Crews Hole (68), Downend 1 Email: info@ Owns 5 nurseries: Bury, Stockwell (62), Townmead (52), Downend 2 (64), monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com Greater Manchester: Dumers (52), Tresham Crescent (52), Fishponds (59), Hanham Hall Website: www. Lane (122), Tottington (98), Warwick (48), Weir Link (43) (79), Hengrove (61), monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com Walmersley (80), Walshaw Places: 1,894 Shirehampton (68), Soundwell Managing director: (104), Whitefield (56) Employees: 500+ (73), Totterdown (80), Will Campbell Places: 460 Plans: To cater for 5,000 children. Whitchurch (32); Paignton 1, CEO: Mark Crosby Employees: 195 Devon (62), Paignton 2 (52), Group operations director: MACE MONTESSORI Paignton 3 (57); Plymouth 1 Rebecca Crosby NATURAL CHOICE SCHOOLS (115), Plymouth 2 (30); Taunton, Established: 1978 NURSERIES* Head office: Units 21-22 Somerset (53); Torquay, Devon Owns/manages 53 nurseries: Acquired Desirable Childcare Factory Quarter, Warple Way, (30); Yeovil, Somerset (68) Aylesbury, Bucks (72); Bedford in 2017 London W3 7FW Places: 1,531 (96); Bexleyheath, Kent (140); Tel: 01454 527627 Tel: 020 8749 2871 Employees: 425 Billericay, Essex (55); Email: [email protected] Email: northchiswick@ Plans: Further 80-place setting Borehamwood, Herts (97); Website: http://ncnltd.co.uk macemontessori.com planned in Bristol for 2018. Bromley, Kent (64); Cambridge Owners: Nicky and Fred Edwards Website: www.mace (65); Chesham, Bucks (51); Owns 4 nurseries: Alveston, montessori.com MILTON KEYNES Cheshunt, Herts (72); Didsbury, South Glos (44); Charfield, Director: Shahid Hamid PREPARATORY Greater Manchester (83); South Glos (47); Cheltenham 1, Established: 1997 SCHOOLS GROUP Edenbridge, Kent (72); Glasgow Glos (38), Cheltenham 2 (38) Owns 10 nurseries: London: Head office: Milton Keynes (79); Hartley Wintney, Hants Places: 167 East Putney (81), Finchley (88), Preparatory School, (72); High Wycombe, Bucks Employees: 51 Fortune Green (40), Tattenhoe Lane, Milton Keynes (60); Irthlingborough, Northants Plans: Expanding with another Hammersmith 1 (70), MK3 7EG (63); Kettering, Northants (72); 30 places in early 2018. Hammersmith 2 (40), North Tel: 01908 642111 London: Angel (70), Catford Chiswick (96), Russell Square Fax: 01908 366365 (120), Chadwell Heath (82), NATURALLY LEARNING (24), Wandsworth (60), Email: [email protected] Ealing (70), East Finchley (82), Head office: The Old Church Wapping 1 (65), Wapping 2 (44) Website: www.mkps.co.uk Enfield (52), Eltham (60), Hall, Church Road, Charlestown, Places: 608 Contact: Mrs Hilary Pauley Golders Green (52), Highbury St Austell PL25 3NS Employees: 225 Established: 1975 Park (71), Kingston (100), Tel: 01726 339855 Owns 3 nurseries: Broughton Mitcham (88), Notting Hill (43), Email: info@naturallylearning. MAGIC ROUNDABOUT Manor Preparatory School Stoke Newington (52), co.uk NURSERIES (150), Milton Keynes Streatham (72), Twickenham Website: www. Head office: MRN House, Preparatory School (150), (48), Uxbridge (96), West Acton naturallylearning.co.uk Binfield Road, Walton Pre-Preparatory School (54), West Norwood (60), West Director: London SW4 6TB (160) – all in Milton Keynes Kensington (84); Otley, Yorks Mandy Richardson Tel: 020 7498 1195 Places: 460 (75); Portsmouth, Hants (80); Established: 2012 Email: hashim@mrn Employees: 130 Shefford, Beds (51); Sidcup, Kent Owns 4 nurseries: Charlestown nursery.co.uk (100); Solihull, Birmingham (44); (36), Poltair, St Austell (56), Website: www.mrnnursery. MON AMI CHILDREN’S Southport, Merseyside (87); St Truro High School (50), Truro, co.uk NURSERIES Albans 1 (47), St Albans 2 (87); Lemon Street (30) – all in Director: Farukh Najabat Head office: Ormsby Lodge, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warks Cornwall. Runs holiday clubs. Established: 1995 12 East Street, Alford, Lincs (69); Tatsfield, Surrey (56); Places: 172 Owns 5 nurseries: Bristol LN13 9EQ Thirsk, Yorks (72); Walderslade, Employees: 65 (108); London: Docklands (39), Tel/fax: 01507 462228 Kent (72); Ware, Herts (60); Kennington (111), Stockwell Email: info@monaminurseries. Warwick (72); Weybridge, Surrey NELLY’S NURSERIES (186), Walthamstow (120) co.uk (75); Wilmslow, Cheshire (44); Head office: 27 Turney Road, Places: 564 Website: www.monami Woodlesford, Leeds (72); London SE21 8LX Employees: 112 nurseries.co.uk Worcester (74) Tel: 020 8761 4178

40 NURSERY CHAINS AUTUMN 2017 WWW.NURSERYWORLD.CO.UK Email: [email protected] Shirley 1 (52), Shirley 2 (32), Website: www.nellys.co.uk Swaythling (64), West End (52) Owners: Jez Hill, Sarah Hill 1 out-of-school club: Bannister Established: 2002 School, Southampton (30) Owns 4 nurseries: Lancaster Places: 460 Avenue (46), Rosendale Road Employees: 150 (51), Turney Road (37), Dulwich Plans: To expand to 12 nurseries. Sports Ground (36) – all London Places: 170 PAPER MOON DAY Employees: 75 NURSERIES Head office: The Clock Tower, NEWPARK CHILDCARE Compton Acres, Nottingham Head office: 67 Highbury New NG2 7RS Park, London N5 2EU Tel: 01115 982 1122 Tel/Fax: 020 7503 0961 Email: papermoonnurseries@ Website: www.newpark tiscali.co.uk childcare.co.uk Website: www.papermoon Directors: Barry Clutterbuck, Co Durham (43); Stockton-on- Glos (92), Innsworth 2 (42); daynursery.co.uk Janice Clutterbuck, Tees (80, plus out-of-school Stoke Park Crèche, Bucks (30) Director: Tiffany Clutterbuck club); York (30) 1 out-of-school club Watlington Dianne Mayfield Established: 1994 Places: 240 (32) Established: 1990 Owns 5 Montessori nursery Employees: 64 Places: 380 Owns 7 nurseries: Lincolnshire: schools: London: Barbican (26), Employees: 85 Boultham Park (34), Clerkenwell (64), Highbury (34), NUNTHORPE NURSERIES Doddington Park (50); Shepherds Bush (82), GROUP ONCE UPON A TIME Nottinghamshire: Compton Wandsworth (64) Head office: 2 The Crescent, DAY NURSERIES Acres (70), Faraday Road (40), Places: 270 Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough Head office: Blair Athol Forest Town (108), Gamston Employees: 95 TS7 0JP House, Ashfield Avenue, (70), Sutton in Ashfield (134) Plans: Ongoing expansion. Tel/Fax: 01642 325312 Feltham, Middlesex Places: 506 Email: carmel@ TW13 5BB Employees: 150 NOAH’S ARK* nunthorpenurseries.co.uk Tel: 020 8751 5810 Head office: 39 Walsdon Street, Website: www.nunthorpe Fax: 020 8844 0800 PATHWAYS NURSERIES Plymouth PL1 5EH nurseriesgroup.co.uk Website: www.onceuponatime AND CHILDCARE Tel: 01752 276224 Directors: Paul Nelson, daynurseries.co.uk CENTRES Email: [email protected] Ian Howlett Proprietor: Head office: 2 Huddesford Drive, Website: www.noahs Established: 1989 Lorna Hackland-Crowther Balsall Common, Coventry online.co.uk Owns 9 nurseries: Billingham Established: 1989 CV7 7RR Director: Nyree Squires (50), Brambles Farm (78), Owns 7 nurseries: Hillingdon: Tel: 01926 484030 Established: 1996 Ingleby Barwick (60), Eastcote (26), Hayes (50), Email: office@pathways Owns 8 nurseries: Plymouth 1 Middlesbrough 1 (76), Uxbridge 1 (42), Uxbridge 2 (26); nursery.co.uk (38), Plymouth 2 (50), Middlesbrough 2 (85), Hounslow: Feltham (63), Lower Website: www.pathways Plymouth 3 (53), Plymouth 4 Middlesbrough 3 (51), Feltham (35), Hanworth (26) nursery.co.uk (55), Plymouth 5 (77), Plymouth Nunthorpe (76), Ormesby (75), 1 playgroup: Hayes, Hillingdon Directors: Caroline Jones, Beth 6 (59), Plymouth 7 (50), Stockton-on-Tees (62) – all in (26) Casey, Daniel Jones Torquary (46) – all in Devon Teesside. Out-of-school and Places: 268 Established: 1989 Places: 428 holiday clubs at each setting Employees: 135 Owns 5 nurseries: Bafton, Employees: 120 Places: 613 Solihull (27), Balsall Common Employees: 145 PAINTPOTS (24), Chelmsley Wood (60), NORTHUMBRIAN TRUST PRE-SCHOOL Holly Lane (26), Warwick (40) DAY NURSERIES THE OLD STATION AND NURSERY – all West Midlands. Also runs 2 Head office: 301 Chillingham NURSERY Head office: Paintpots House, 1 out-of-school clubs in Balsall Road, Newcastle upon Tyne Head office: 7 Park Road, Spring Crescent, Portswood, Common and Warwick. NE6 5SB Faringdon, Oxon Southampton SO17 2FZ Places: 177 Tel: 0191 265 6501 SN7 7BP Tel: 023 8032 2197 Employees: 47 Fax: 0191 265 6353 Tel: 01367 243800 Email: info@ Email: enquiries@ Email: enquiries@ paintpotsnursery.co.uk PINOCCHIO’S northumbriantrustday theoldstationnursery.co.uk Website: www.paintpots CHILDREN’S NURSERIES nurseries.co.uk Website: www.theoldstation nursery.co.uk Head office: School Green, Website: www.northumbrian nursery.co.uk Owners: Lasswade, Midlothian EH22 3NX trustdaynurseries.co.uk Managing director: David Wright, Anna Wright, Tel: 0131 654 2914 Directors: JP Gould, EG Gould, Sarah Steel Joseph Wright Email: lewissa@pinocchios JJ Gould Established: 2002 Established: 1992 nursery.co.uk Established: 1994 Owns 7 nurseries: Henley-on- Owns 9 nurseries: Website: www.pinocchios Owns 4 nurseries: Newcastle Thames (64), Faringdon(60), Southampton: City Centre (48), nursery.co.uk upon Tyne (87, plus out-of- Filkins (28), Oxford Science Park Harefield (44), Freemantle (52), Directors: Stratos Koulis, school club); Spennymoor, (64) – all in Oxon; Innsworth 1, Portswood (64), Sholing (52), Lewissa Koulis

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Quality assurance manager: playtimenurseries.com Chief executive: Street, London EC1Y 8RT Katrina Weir Website: www.playtime Sarah Bellamy Tel: 020 7697 2527 Established: 1997 nurseries.com Established: 2011 Email: [email protected] Owns 5 nurseries: Edinburgh 1 Founder and operations Owns 8 nurseries: Astley Website: www.pre-school.org.uk (48), Edinburgh 2 (55), Eskbank director: Victoria Robson Bridge, Greater Manchester Chief executive: (60), Lasswade (60), Penicuick Established: 2005 (60); Cleveleys, Lancs (60); Neil Leitch (53) – all in Midlothian. Also Owns 3 nurseries: Wandsworth Crewe, Cheshire – 3 Stepping Established: 1961 runs 2 breakfast and after- (90), Shepperton (90) – both in Stones settings (180); Fulwood, Owns/manages 108 nurseries: school clubs. London; Staines, Surrey (44) Lancs (60); Poulton-le-Fylde, Arbury, Cambs (36); Ashby, N Places: 276 Places: 224 Lancs (60); Warrington, Lincs (20); Barnstaple, Devon Employees: 100 Cheshire (60) (24); Basildon 1, Essex (50); PLUS THREE NURSERIES Places: 480 Basildon 2 (50); Bestwood, PIXIELAND DAY Head office: Hope House, Employees: 220 Notts (20); Birmingham 1 (60), NURSERIES 21c Balliol Way, Owlsmoor, Birmingham 2 (42), Birmingham Head office: 10 Springfield Drive, Sandhurst, Berks GU47 0QN PORTICO DAY NURSERIES 3 (50), Birmingham 4 (24); Milehouse Road, Plymouth Tel: 07970 030769 Head office: Apartment 6, Bolton, Greater Manchester PL3 4DU Email: plusthreenursery@ Claremont House, (70); Brinsley, Notts (36); Bude, Tel: 01752 511007 aol.com Ruff Lane, Ormskirk, Lancs Cornwall (32); Bulwell, Notts Email: info@pixieland Website: www.plusthree L39 4UP (54); Cambridge (24); daynurseries.co.uk nurseries.com Tel: 01695 581545 Canterbury, Kent (56); Cawston, Website: www.pixielandday Director: Email: [email protected] Norfolk (24); Congleton, nurseries.co.uk Sue Butler Website: www. Cheshire (30); Egloskerry, Proprietor: Nursery managers: porticonurserygroup.co.uk Cornwall (20); Exmouth, Devon Caroline Francis Heather Woad, Vicky Jones and Directors: Nicole Politis, (26); Fulbourn, Cambs (52); Established: 1983 Lisa Adams Craig Jackson Gainsborough, Lincs (33); Owns/manages 4 nurseries: Established: 1985 Established: 2002 Gateshead 1, Tyne and Wear Devonport, MoD (36); Owns 3 nurseries: Bracknell, Owns 8 nurseries: Aughton, (32), Gateshead 2 (56); Plymouth: Mannamead (79), Berks: Farley Wood (50), Martins Lancashire (40); Eccleston Park, Haverhill, Suffolk (48); Milehouse (92); Saltash (100) Heron (50), Newell Green (60) Merseyside (32); Moss Bank, Huddersfield 1, Yorks (30), – all in Devon and all but MoD Places: 160 Merseyside (44); Ormskirk, Huddersfield 2 (48); Huntingdon have out-of-school clubs and Employees: 20 Lancashire (30); Prescot, 1, Cambs (49), Huntingdon 2 holiday clubs. Merseyside (87); Skelmersdale, (20), Huntingdon 3 (26); Places: 307 POPPY & JACK’S Lancashire (52); St Helens, Ilfracombe, Devon (42); Employees: 92 Head office: Unit 1, New Media Merseyside (80); Thatto Heath, Ingoldmells, Lincs (20); House, 8 Hardhorn Road, Merseyside (32). Also runs 2 Keighley, Yorks (55); Kings Lynn PLAYTIME NURSERIES* Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire after-school clubs in Aughton (27); Langar, Notts (24); Langley Head office: 5 North Street, FY6 7SR and St Helens. Mill, Derbyshire (52); Leeds, Hailsham, East Sussex Tel: 01253 978011 Places: 397 Yorks (26); Leicester 1 (50), BN27 1DQ Website: www.poppyand Employees: 104 Leicester 2 (32); Leiston, Suffolk Email: victoria@ jacks.co.uk (52); Letchworth, Herts (20); PORTLAND NURSERIES Lincoln (20); Liversedge, Yorks Head office: Oakwood House, (50); London: Barnet 1 (26), 2 Hungerford Road, Edgerton, Barnet 2 (45), Camden 1 (20), Huddersfield HD3 3AL Camden 2 (16), Ealing 1 (15), Tel: 01484 533322 Ealing 2 (26), Erith 1 (84), Erith 2 Email: info@portland (70), Erith 3 (70), Erith 4 (20), nurseries.co.uk Greenwich 1 (24), Greenwich 2 Website: www.portland (61), Hammersmith & Fulham 1 nurseries.co.uk (20), Hammersmith & Fulham 2 Directors: Rosemary Murphy, (20), Ilford (28), Lewisham 1 Michael A. Murphy (24), Lewisham 2 (22), Established: 1991 Lewisham 3 (26), Lewisham 4 Owns 4 nurseries: Huddersfield: (24), Newham 1 (30), Newham Harlequin Nursery, Edgerton 1 2 (30), Newham 3 (30); (27), Holly Bank Nursery, Longstanton, Cambs (26); Edgerton 2 (56), Oakwood Luton 1, Beds (69), Luton 2 (65), House Nursery & Forest School, Luton 3 (70), Luton 4 (32), Edgerton 3 (84), Portland Luton 5 (24); Mablethorpe, Lincs House, Lindley (90) (46); Manchester (50); 1 after-school club: Lindley (24) Mansfield, Notts (41); Marazion, Places: 257 Cornwall (24); Milton Keynes Employees: 97 (26); New Woods, Notts (49); Newark, Notts (58); Newstead, PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING Notts (49); Newthorpe, Notts ALLIANCE (32); Northhampton (26); Head office: 50 Featherstone Peterborough 1 (26),

42 NURSERY CHAINS AUTUMN 2017 WWW.NURSERYWORLD.CO.UK Peterborough 2 (56), St Mary (20); holiday club at Initiative Centre, Cass House Tel: 01253 922922 Peterborough 3 (26), Manston Terrace (30) Road, Hemlington TS8 9QW Email: enquiries@safehands Peterborough 4 (26), Places: 350 Tel: 01642 596768 nurseries.com Peterborough 5 (26); Employees: 120 Email: enquiries@ Website: www.safehands Portsmouth, Hants (40); Red rosedenenurseries.co.uk nursery.com Lion, Notts (20); Runcorn 1, RAINBOW NURSERY Website: www.rosedene Established: 1997 Cheshire (60), Runcorn 2 (54); Head office: 14 Moss Way, nurseries.co.uk Owner: Selston, Notts (26); Skegness, Hillend Industrial Estate, Directors: Clare McCullagh, Simon Rigby Lincs (38); Southend 1, Essex Dalgety, Fife KY11 9JS John McCullagh Owns 16 nurseries: Accrington, (72), Southend 2 (84); Tel: 01383 821970 Established: 1993 Lancs (59); Barnoldswick, Southwold, Suffolk (38); St Erth, Email: rainbownursery2@ Owns 14 nurseries: Darlington, Lancs (70); Blackpool (102); Cornwall (20); Stockton on Tees btconnect.com Co Durham (56); Easterside, Colne, Lancs (60); Crewe 1, 1, County Durham (75), Stockton Website: www.rainbow Middlesbrough (36), Easterside Cheshire (62), Crewe 2 on Tees 2 (77); Tamworth 1, childcarefife.co.uk Hub, Middlesbrough (36), (65), Crewe 3 (60); Kendal, Staffs (44), Tamworth 2 (54); Directors: Craig Skinner, Egglescliffe, Stockton-On-Tees Cumbria (60); Northwich, Taunton, Somerset (38); Ian Skinner (40); Guisborough, Redcar and Cheshire (72); Out Rawcliffe, Teignmouth, Devon (24); Tipton, Established: Acquired in 2010 Cleveland (50); Hardwick, Lancs (60); Penrith, W Mids (36); Tiverton, Devon Owns 3 nurseries: Dalgety Bay Stockton-On-Tees (56); Cumbria (47); Preston 1, (49); Torquay, Devon (30); (89), Glenrothes (117), St Hemlington Initiative Centre, Lancs (61); Preston 2 (90); Watford, Herts (28); Worksop 1, Andrews (64) – all in Fife Middlesbrough (90), Rishton, Lancs (60); Notts (77), Worksop 2 (54) Places: 270 Hemlington Children’s Centre, Stalybridge, Tameside (96); Places: 4,223 Employees: 66 Middlesbrough (54), Kader, Thornton – Cleveleys, Plans: To open nurseries in Middlesbrogh (36); Lancs (57) Cambridgeshire and RASCALS DAY NURSERIES Northallerton, North Yorkshire Places: 1,081 Peterborough. Head office: 121a Circular Road, (55), Ormesby, Middlesbrough Employees: 151 Belfast, N. Ireland BT4 2GE (41); Saltburn, Saltburn-by-the- PRIMLEY PARK Tel: 028 9076 1333 Sea (59); St Paul’s Billingham, SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDREN’S NURSERIES Fax: 028 9076 9333 Stockton-On-Tees (48), Sunrise, DAYCARE Head office: 48 Nursery Lane, Email: reception@ Stockton-On-Tees (56) Head office: 45 De La Beche Alwoodley, Leeds LS17 8UH rascalsdaynurseries.com 2 out-of-school clubs: Durham Road, Sketty, Swansea Tel: 0113 288 8833 (admin only) Website: www.rascals Lane, Stockton-on-Tees (36); SA2 9EA Email: headoffice@ daynurseries.com Northallerton Out of School Tel: 01792 202900 primleyparknursery.co.uk Managing directors: Lynne Club, North Yorkshire (24) Email: mail@schoolhouse- Directors: Sandra Hutchinson D’Arcy, Roger D’Arcy Places: 713 daycare.co.uk (managing director and Established: 1988 Employees: 170 Website: www.schoolhouse- operations director), Malcolm Owns 7 nurseries: Belfast: daycare.co.uk Hutchinson (finance) Belfast East 1 (119), Belfast East 2 ROSY APPLE CHILDCARE Established: 1998 Established: 1991 (50), Belfast North 1 (50), Head office: Unit 6, Lockside Directors: Amanda Bennett, Owns 4 nurseries: Leeds: Belfast North 2 (100), Belfast Office Park, Lockside Road, Kevin Bennett Alwoodley (50), Moortown South 1 (58), Belfast South 2 Riversway, Preston PR2 2YS Owns 7 nurseries: Bridgend (79), Roundhay 1 (80), Roundhay (140); Londonderry (50) Tel: 01772 733777 (50); Carmarthen: Glangwili 2 (60) – all Yorks Places: 567 Email: sharon@rosyapple (50), Tycroes (18); Neath Port Places: 269 Employees: 217 childcare.com Talbot (42); Swansea: City (46), Employees: 100+ Website: www.rosyapple Morriston (121), Sketty (118) RHYMETIME NURSERY childcare.com Places: 445 PUFFINS OF EXETER Head office: Connolly Lodge, Chief executive: Employees: 116 CHILDCARE CENTRES Berrywood Close, St Crispins, Sharon Alexander Head office: 13 Mont le Grand, Northampton NN5 4BW Managing director: SEYMOUR HOUSE Heavitree, Exeter, Devon Tel: 01604 586440 Sharon Fenton DAY NURSERY SCHOOLS EX1 2PD Email: michelle@ Established: 2003 Head office: 140 Broomfield Tel: 01392 496017 nurseryheadoffice.com Owns 5 nurseries: Blackburn Road, Chelmsford, Essex Email: enquiries@ Managing director: (75); Preston 1 (55), Preston 2 CM1 1RN puffinsofexeter.com Michelle Harris (83), Preston 3 (65); Tel: 01245 213213 Website: www.puffinsof Established: 2000 Skelmersdale (71) – all in Lancs. Email: admin@ exeter.co.uk Owns 7 nurseries: Corby (70), Places: 349 seymourhouse.co.uk Managing directors: Maureen Kettering (64), Northampton Employees: 90 Website: www. Gard, Rosalind Taylor, Gemma (96), Rushden (94), Woodleys Plans: Continued development seymourhouse.co.uk Rolstone, Gillian Fawcett Farm Day Nursery (40), of the settings with the addition Directors: John Player, Established: 1990 Woodleys Park Day Nursery of before- and after-school Julie Player, Jonathan Player, Owns 6 nurseries: Exeter: (72), Woodleys Village (40) – all clubs, along with holiday care. Christopher Willetts Clystheath (60), Heavitree in Northants Established: 1988 (40), St Leonards (72), Places: 476 SAFEHANDS NURSERIES Owns 10 nurseries: Basildon Southernhay (70), Sowton Employees: 70 Head office: 2 Neptune Court, (34); Chelmsford: Broomfield (60); Torquay, Shiphay (48). Hallam Way, Whitehills Business Hospital (50), Broomfield Road Plus apprenticeship courses. ROSEDENE NURSERIES Park, Blackpool, (50), Lawn Lane (50),

PICTURE CREDIT PICTURE 1 after-school club: Exeter: Clyst Head office: Hemlington Lancs FY4 5LZ Springfield Road (50);

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Colchester (51); Laindon, Essex (finance director), Chief executive: Cliffsend, Ramsgate (26) – all in (51); St Albans, Herts (66); Rosemary Collard Tony Hawkhead Kent. Also runs a 50-place Wickford, Essex (73); Witham, (managing director), Managing director of before- and after-school club Essex (66) James Collard (creative operations: Carol Iddon and holiday club in Sandwich. Places: 541 director), Jennifer Biddel Operations managing director, Places: 156 Employees: 260 (operations director) commercial and shared Employees: 45 Plans: Seeking expansion in the Established: 1998 services: Charles Scott South East. Owns 8 nurseries: Atworth (39), Interim director of nurseries: ST GEORGE’S Broadwood (74), Corsham Ruth Pimentel NURSERY SCHOOLS SHINE CHILDCARE* (100) – all in Wilts; Bath and Established: 1869 Head office: 2 Grace Road, Head office: Sycamore Lodge, North East Somerset: Grosvenor Owns/manages 44 nurseries: Leicester LE2 8AD 7A Woodhouse Cliff, (70), Keynsham (122), Weston Bedlington 1, Northumberland Tel: 01162 290023 Woodhouse, Leeds LS6 2HF (164); Bristol: Horfield (120), (24), Bedlington 2 (24); Bexley, Email: enquiries@ Tel: 0113 2784 362 Shirehampton (128) Northumberland (38); Braintree, stgeorgesnursery.com Email: shinechildcare@ 4 out-of-school clubs: Atworth Essex 1 (73), Braintree 2 (37), Website: www.stgeorges gmail.com (8), Broadwood (16), Corsham Braintree 3 (40); Derby 1 (63), nursery.com Website: www.shinechildcare. (48), Weston (30) Derby 2 (66), Derby 3 (64); Directors: Birju Ghelani, co.uk Places: 817 Exeter 1, Devon (52), Exeter 2 Jaimie Ghelani Owners: Graham Abbott, Employees: 230 (40); Folkestone, Kent (36); Established: 1994 Amika Abbott Gateshead 1, Tyne and Wear Owns 5 nurseries: Aylestone Established: 2007 SOUTH HILLS NURSERY (52), Gateshead 2 (54), (94), Enderby (84), Leicester Owns 3 nurseries: Huddersfield, Head office: Home Farm Road, Gateshead 3 (52), Gateshead 4 City (90), Narborough (60), W Yorks (144); Leeds, Yorks Wilton, Wiltshire SP2 8PJ (52), Gateshead 5 (36); Holt, Oadby (85) – all in Leics (163); Oldham, Greater Tel: 01722 744971 Norfolk (32); Hunstanton 1, Places: 413 Manchester (97). Also runs a Email: admin@ Norfolk (27), Hunstanton 2 (48); Employees: 95 144-place out-of-school and southhillsschool.com Knowsley 1, Merseyside (37), holiday club at Huddersfield. Website: www.southhills Knowsley 2 (56); London: SUNHILL DAYCARE Places: 404 school.com Chelsea 1 (57), Chelsea 2 (42), (EUROPE) Employees: 33 Directors: John Proctor, North Kensington (47), Notting Head office: PO Box 157, Alicia Proctor, Andrew Proctor Hill (41); Norwich 1, Norfolk (64), Royston, Herts SG8 9WY SHOOTING STARS Established: 1994 Norwich 2 (43); RAF Benson, Tel: 01763 247474 NURSERIES Owns 6 nurseries: Burcombe Oxon (102); RAF Boulmer, Fax: 01763 243033 Head office: The Coach House, (24), Corsham (60), Salisbury 1 Northumberland (37); RAF Website: www.sunhill Old Burcot Lane, Burcot, (70), Salisbury 2 (60), Semley Cosford, Wolves (100); RAF daycare.com Bromscgrove B60 1PH (24), Wilton (150) – all in Wilts. Halton, Bucks (54); RAF Email: enquiries@ Email: natalie@ Places: 388 Honington, Suffolk (75); RAF sunhilldaycare.com myshootingstars.com Employees: 70+ Kinloss, Morayshire (92); RAF Directors: Geoff Chapman Website: www. Linton-on-Ouse, Yorks (62); RAF (managing director), Roger myshootingstars.com SPL EDUCATION AND Scampton, Lincs (60); RAF Chapman (finance director), Director: EXETER NURSERIES Waddington, Lincs (105); RAF Claire Jones (chief executive Jon Higgins Nursery Team office: 36 Wittering, Cambs (100); RAF operations), Steve Moss Area managers: Natalie Alphington Road, Exeter Wyton, Cambs (37); Stockton- (facilities and projects McNamara and Tracy Hedges EX2 8HN on-Tees 1, Co Durham (48), manager), Kirsty Love Established: 2009 Tel: 01392 272621 Stockton-on-Tees 2 (61), (compliance, care and Owns 6 nurseries: Bromsgrove Finance office: 143 Exeter Road, Stockton-on-Tees 3 (24), education manager) (81), Gloucester (76), Hinckley Exmouth, EX8 5AU Stockton-on-Tees 4 (24); Established: 1991 (78), Stourbridge (59), Email: denise.cronin@ Wallsend, Tyne-and-Wear (63) Owns 11 nurseries: Aylesbury, Wolverhampton (86), splnurseries.co.uk Places: 2,349 Bucks (96); Basildon, Essex Worcester (91) – all in West Director: Jon Middleton Employees: 4,656 (84); Berkhamsted (87), Hemel Midlands Established: 2006 Hempstead (75), Royston (85) Places: 471 Owns 4 nurseries: Exeter 1 (60), ST BART’S DAY – all in Herts; Fen Drayton (75), Employees: 150 Exeter 2 (80), Exeter 3 (63); NURSERIES* Great Abington (78), St Neots 1 Plans: To open another nursery Exmouth (56) – all in Devon Head office: 17 Dover Road, (47), St Neots 2 (25) – all in in 2018. Places: 259 Sandwich, Kent CT13 0BS Cambs; Suffolk 1 (30), Suffolk Employees: 100 Tel: 01304 619 800 2 (71) SNAPDRAGONS Email: [email protected] 1 out-of-school club: St Neots NURSERIES SPRING BY ACTION FOR Website: www. (25) Head office: Prospect Farm, CHILDREN stbartsnurseries.com Places: 753 43 Bath Road, Atworth, From October 2017, the Managing director: Liz Norris Employees: 180 Melksham, Wilts SN12 8JW nurseries started operating Director of operations: Plans: Further acquisitions and Tel: 01225 707009 under the brand Spring Erica Butler new builds. Email: atworth@ Head office: 3 The Boulevard, Director of care and education: snapdragonsnursery.com Ascot Road, Watford WD18 8AG Charlotte Roberts SWINGBOAT NURSERIES Website: www.snap Tel: 01923 361500 Established: 2000 Head office: 147-149 Hermitage dragonsnursery.com Website: www.action4children. Owns 3 nurseries: Sandwich 1 Road, Whitwick, Leics LE67 5EL Directors: Paul Collard org.uk, www.springnurseries.co.uk (80), Sandwich 2 (50), Tel: 01530 814477

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Email: managerhdn@ Directors: Rikke Kerler, Email: headoffice@toadhall- – all in Dorset; Gillingham, Kent swonboatnurseries.co.uk KF Phoon nursery.co.uk (126); Newport, Isle of Wight Website: www.swingboat Established: 2006 Website: www.toadhall- – IoW College (61); Salisbury, nurseries.co.uk Owns 6 nurseries: Burgess Hill, nursery.co.uk Wilts (170); Taunton 1, Somerset Directors: Elaine Blunt, West Sussex (45); Hove 1, Directors: Claire French and Gail (35), Taunton 2, Musgrove Park Graham Blunt East Sussex (51), Hove 2 (100), Tanner (co-managing directors), Hospital (122); Hants: Havant Established: 1996 Hove 3 (122); Shoreham-by-Sea, Charlotte Eavis Wix (director of (54), Lymington (32), Owns 3 nurseries: Ashby (50), West Sussex (84), Worthing, childcare and operations) Portsmouth 1, Queen Alexandra Hermitage (80) – both in Leics; West Sussex (100) Established: 1998 Hospital (61), Portsmouth 2 Woodville, Derbyshire (110) Places: 502 Owns 13 nurseries: Berks: (99), Winchester, Royal 3 out-of-school clubs: Ashby- Employees: 135 Langley (101), Winnersh (72); Hampshire County Hospital de-la-Zouch (48) and Whitwick Plans: To open 1 more nursery in Herts: Berkhamsted (78), (61). Crèche opportunities Park – both in Leics; Woodville, Shoreham-by-Sea (100). Hitchin (107), Watford (106); available. Also provides training. Derbyshire (48) Surrey: Brox Road (41), Places: 1,690 Places: 240 TINY TEDDIES Chessington (89), Horley (53), Employees: 535 Employees: 132 DAY NURSERY Haslemere (72), Ripley (40), Head office: The Old Fire Walton-on-Thames (129), TORRIDON TARA KINDERGARTENS Station, Chetton Avenue, Woking (104); Colmworth, EDUCATION GROUP Head office: 4 Ridgemead Daimler Green, Beds (55) Head office: East Beech Nursery Close, Southgate, London Radford, Places: 1,047 School, 1 Queen’s Lane, N14 6NW Coventry CV6 3LA Employees: 380 Lossiemouth IV31 6DR Tel/Fax: 020 8886 8334 Tel: 02476 590059 Plans: To increase places at one Tel: 01343 810091 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] of the sites. Email: admin@ Website: www. Website: www.tinyteddies.co.uk torridoneducationgroup.co.uk tarakindergartens.co.uk Principals: Paul Ingram, TOMMIES CHILDCARE Managing director: Proprietor: Michelle Ingram Head office: Four Brooks Sharon Hayward Raj Nagendran Established: 2003 Nursery & Pre-school, Parkville Operations manager: Established: 1992 Owns 4 nurseries: Coventry: Highway, Coventry CV6 4HZ Lauren Hayward Owns 5 nurseries: London: Mount St, Chappelfields (61), Tel: 01676 540244 Established: 1994 Edmonton (72), Enfield (50) Radford (89), Whitley (37); Email: info@tommies Owns 3 nurseries: Elgin (30); Southgate (100), Uxbridge 1 Balsall Common, Solihull (76) childcare.co.uk Lossiemouth 1 (40), (20), Uxbridge 2 (40) Places: 263 Website: www.tommies Lossiemouth 2 (30) for Places: 282 Employees: 60 childcare.co.uk under-threes. Runs out-of- Employees: 95 Directors: Caroline Fooks school and holiday club. TINY TOEZ (chief executive), Matt Fooks Total: 100 TENDERLINKS DAY Head office: Bredon House, (finance director), Danielle Plans: Opening a 50-place NURSERIES Suite G3, 321 Tettenhall Butler (operations director) nursery in January 2018 Head office: Lampard Road, Wolverhampton Established: 1998 Investments, Hideaway Work WV6 0JZ Owns 8 nurseries: Coventry: TOWNSEND Space, 1 Empire Mews, Tel: Contact each nursery directly Chapelfields (28), Hen Lane MONTESSORI Stanthorpe Road, London Email: [email protected] (58), Norman Place Road (30), NURSERIES SW16 2BF Website: www.tinytoez.com Parkville Highway (84), Head office: The Grange Tel: 07940 391682 Directors: Ranjana Mair, Westhill Road (39); Kenilworth Montessori, Westcliffe Road, Email: fkhaki@ Kamal Mair (30); Nuneaton 1 (34), Ramsgate, Kent CT11 9LJ lampardinvestments.com Established: 2004 Nuneaton 2 (26) Tel: 01843 852575 Website: www.tenderlinks Owns 16 nurseries: Coventry 1 Places: 329 Email: [email protected] daynursery.co.uk (42), Coventry 2 (45), Coventry 3 Employees: 87 Website: www.tmnurseries.com Managing director: (57); London: Feltham (116), Managing director: Farouq Khaki Hounslow (56); Newcastle- TOPS DAY NURSERIES Philippa Townsend Established: 2006 under-Lyme (98); Staffs: Head office: 744 Christchurch Established: 2005 Owns 4 nurseries: Godalming, Biddulph (72), Cannock Chase Road, Bournemouth, Dorset Owns 9 nurseries: Broadstairs Surrey (32); London: Norbury (83), East Staffs (60), Nutwood BH7 6BZ (85), Faversham (110), Herne (19), Streatham (38), (48), Tamworth (92); Stoke-on Tel: 01202 551553 Bay (77), Margate 1 (77), Twickenham (18) Trent 1 (58), Stoke-on-Trent 2 Email: admin@ Margate 2 (72), Ramsgate (94), Places: 107 (62), Stoke-on-Trent 3 (57), topsdaynurseries.co.uk Whitstable (106), Maidstone Employees: 23 Stoke-on-Trent 4 (66); Website: www. (91) – all in Kent; Forest Hill, Stourport, Worcs (41) topsdaynurseries.co.uk London (89) TINYSAURUS NURSERIES Places: 1,056 Director: Cheryl Hadland Places: 801 Head office: Supersaurus Employees: 250 Established: 1990 Employees: 218 Nursery, 46 Cromwell Road, Owns 19 nurseries: Boscombe Plans: To open a new nursery in Hove, East Sussex BN3 3ER TOAD HALL (135), Bournemouth, Royal Herne Bay in 2018. Tel: 01273 730017 NURSERY GROUP Bournemouth Hospital (131), Email: accounts@ Head office: Glover Centre, Charminster (59), Christchurch TUDOR HOUSE supersaurusnursery.co.uk 23-25 Bury Mead Road, (76), Corfe Mullen (86), MONTESSORI Website: www.saurusnurseries. Hitchin SG5 1RT Parkstone (56), Poole (105), Head office: Tudor House co.uk Tel: 01462 427020 Wareham (47), Wimborne (98) Montessori, Gloucester Road,

46 NURSERY CHAINS AUTUMN 2017 WWW.NURSERYWORLD.CO.UK Burgess Hill, W Sussex 64-65 Victoria Road, Swindon, Llandudno Junction (36); YMCA Black Country Group: West RH15 8QD Wilts SN1 3BB Westend (56) Bromwich 1 (119), West Tel: 01444 241 491 Tel: 01793 488988 1 out-of-school club: Bromwich 2 (52); Email: info@tudorhouse Email: [email protected] Glanwydden (18) Wolverhampton (53) – all group.co.uk Website: www.thetrees.co.uk Places: 128 W Midlands. Website: www.tudorhouse Directors: Richard Lay, Lester Employees: 30 YMCA Cornwall: Cornwall (17). montessorigroup.co.uk Lay, Lloyd Lay, Peter Lay YMCA East Surrey: Reigate, Managing director: Established: 1989 YELLOW DOT NURSERY Surrey (35). Carole-Ann Benson Owns 5 nurseries: Eastleigh, Head office: The Pavilion Yellow YMCA Fairthorne Group: Andover Established: 1998 Hants (93); Southampton 1, Dot Nursery, Otterbourne, Hants (121); Isle of Wight 1 (86), Isle of Owns 6 nurseries: Burgess Hill 1 Hants (85), Southampton 2 SO21 2HJ Wight 2 (56); Portsmouth 1 (53), (30), Burgess Hill 2 (48), (83); Swindon 1, Wilts (88), Email: jane@ Portsmouth 2 (72), Portsmouth Burgess Hill 3 (70); Haywards Swindon 2 (74) yellowdotnursery.co.uk 3 (58); Southampton 1 (30), Heath (44); Lindfield 1 (30), Places: 423 Website: www.yellow Southampton 2 (128), Lindfield 2 (28) – all in W Sussex Employees: 126 dotnursery.co.uk Southampton 3 (30), Places: 250 Directors: Jane and Trevor Dyke Southampton 4 (46), Employees: 95 WIND IN THE WILLOWS Established: 1997 Southampton 5 (32), CHILD CARE Owns 11 nurseries and 1 Southampton 6 (108), TWINKLES NURSERY Head office: 45 Cross Lane, kindergarten: Ampfield (64), Southampton 7 (52) – all in GROUP Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside Andover (75), Chandlers Ford 1 Hants. Head office: Clifford Road, WA12 9PT (64), Chandlers Ford 2 – YMCA Maidstone: Loose (28), Boston Spa, Wetherby LS23 6DB Tel: 01925 221010 kindergarten (26), Chilworth Tovil (28) – both in Kent. Tel: 01937 849588 Directors: Ginny Taylor, (64), Eastleigh (75), Fair Oak YMCA Reading: Reading, Berks Email: jill@ Neil Taylor (64), Hedge End (64), North (48). twinklesnurseries.com Established: 1993 Baddesley (64), Otterbourne YMCA Somerset Coast: North Website: www.twinkles Owns 3 nurseries: Sefton, (90), Romsey (66), Winchester Somerset (60). nurseries.com Merseyside (70); Warrington: (75) – all in Hants YMCA Sefton: Southport, Owner: Jill Johnson Longbarn (26), Woolston (100) Places: 791 Merseyside (52). Established: 2003 1 out-of-school club: Sefton (8) Employees: 421 YMCA St Helens: St Helens, Owns 6 nurseries: Boston Spa, Places: 196 Plans: To consolidate. Merseyside (96). W Yorks (93); Knaresborough, N Employees: 44 YMCA Trinity Group: Lowestoft 1 Yorks (92); Leeds 1 (108), Leeds YMCA (51), Lowestoft 2 (55), 2 (90), Leeds 3 (70); Wetherby, WYNGARTH YMCA is a federation of local Woodbridge (24) – all in Suffolk. W Yorks (97). Also runs 3 DAY NURSERY YMCAs. Find your local YMCA YMCA Swansea: Swansea (48). out-of-school clubs. Head office: Wyngarth, 26 Kings at www.ymca.org.uk YMCA Thames Gateway: Dartford Places: 550 Road, Westend, Website: www.ymca.org.uk 1, Kent (62), Dartford 2 (25); Employees: 154 Colwyn Bay, Owns 45 nurseries and Romford, London (24); Plans: Developing a number of Colwyn LL29 7YH pre-schools: Bath YMCA: Bath 1 Swanscombe, Kent (16). locations for completion in 2018. Tel: 01492 533151 (26), Bath 2 (26), Bath 3 (46), YMCA Worcestershire: Website: www.wyngarth Bath 4 (38), Bath 5 (38), Bath 6 Kidderminster (42); Malvern WHITE HORSE CHILD daynursery.com (26), Bath 7 (55), Bath 8 (40). (24); Redditch (52) – all Worcs. CARE/THE TREES DAY Director: Victoria Neale Bournemouth YMCA: Also owns out-of-school and CARE NURSERIES Established: 2006 Bournemouth (25), Boscombe holiday clubs across the UK. Head office: Stanley House, Owns 3 nurseries: Bangor (36); (30) – both in Dorset. Places: 2,233 Employees: 1,000+

ZOOM NURSERIES Head office: 289 Lewisham Way, Brockley SE4 1XF Tel: 020 8469 9795 Email: bella@zoom nurseries.com Website: www.zoom nurseries.com Owners: Bella Landen, Sophie Hubble Operations director: Justine O’Hare Childcare director: Ann Briley Established: 2003 Owns 5 nurseries London: Blackheath (71), Brockley (103), Eltham (71), Hither Green 1 (74), Hither Green 2 (30) Places: 349 Employees: 140

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