In May 2019, ten years after the setting first opened, fire broke out at Honey Pot Garston Nursery in Liverpool. Less than two years later, the setting overcame adversity to be crowned Nursery of the Year at the Nursery World Awards 2020.
The fire, which was started deliberately by six teenagers, took hold almost instantly, destroying everything inside and causing the whole roof to collapse.
‘It spread really quickly, right in front of my eyes,’ says nursery director Jenna Geggie. ‘One minute the baby room was on fire, half an hour later the entire nursery had gone up. It took hours to put it out, by which point there was nothing really left of the nursery, it was essentially just the four walls.’
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