FOUNDATIONS FOR LEARNING
Chairman Michael Brandon opened his first nursery, Foundations for Learning, when it became clear to him 'there was something wrong with the education system'.
He saw it as 'a building that had luxury apartments at the top in the form of university education, and the first and second floors were schools - but in terms of nursery education, there was no basement and no foundations'.
So in 1998, he set up his company in a bid to create some proper, solid foundations. His first nursery was opened by MP Stephen Timms in Newham, east London. He now has six nurseries, three in east London and three in Greater Manchester.
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