Jennie Johnson’s 'eureka moment' happened on a busy train journey from Manchester to London. Then a mother of two young children and working as a director in IT, the founder and chief executive of our award-winning nursery group was trying to ‘make do and mend with informal childcare’, using her mother-in-law, best friend and gran, and childcare arrangements often broke down.
‘My childcare had fallen through. I did make the train to London but it was a close call. I was so stressed – I was pondering my life and how I really didn’t have the right childcare in place.’ Ms Johnson had been looking for nurseries but wasn’t happy at all with what she had found. ‘On that train journey I decided to start a childcare company,’ she says.
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