Rob and Kaye Kilsby, owners of the Tynemouth Nursery Group, launched Tynemouth Nursery at Church High, their seventh nursery, in September. The new setting, which is located in the grounds of a private girls' school, has 54 places and has already reached 50 per cent occupancy.
The Tynemouth Nursery Group now offers a total of 355 childcare places in the north-east.
Mr and Mrs Kilsby, who opened their first nursery in 1999, are planning to open three more sites over the next two years.
Mr Kilsby, an entrepreneur who is also the owner of a fine art photography company, a data capture firm and 15 rental properties, said, 'We knew that we were opening the nursery at a difficult time, but our nursery is aimed very much at the professional market and we are lucky that in the north-east there is a good spread of different industries.
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