Nursery World - Nursery group buys 18th setting

Nursery group Storal Learning has bought its 18th setting.

Smart Start Nursery School in Gravesend, which provides places for 80 children, has been sold to the expanding group.

The nursery, rated Outstanding by Ofsted, operates from two connected Victorian houses located near Gravesend High Street.

Storal Learning owns 18 nurseries across the South East, South West and North West of England and the East Midlands.

Among its settings, the group runs three Honeytree nurseries in the West of England as well as the three Swingboats Nurseries in the Midlands, which it bought last year

The previous owners of Smart Start, Terry and Shirley Wickens, have sold the nursery to begin their retirement.

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