Why did you form the co-operative?
The nursery started in 1998 as a workplace nursery for staff at Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
But in June 2010 the hospital said it could no longer afford to subsidise the nursery and would have to close it. We've all worked here for a long time and we decided to try to keep it going. The manager left, but the remaining eight staff decided to form a co-op to save the nursery. We also have a really strong parents' committee who supported us and it was one of the parents who first looked at how we could set up as a co-operative.
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