Nursery World - Spotlight on…Lucy Atkinson

Owner, High Greenbury Childcare in Richmondshire

HOW DID YOU SET UP YOUR CHILDMINDING SERVICE, LUCY’S LITTLE LAMBS?

After teaching for three years, I moved in with my partner on his family farm and saw an opportunity to provide a childminding service from what was then a games room at the end of the farmhouse. As soon as Lucy’s Little Lambs was established, we became very popular and within months I took on my first assistant. I soon employed a second member of staff, but even with three of us I was unable to meet demand, and with space in the house limited after having two of my own children, I began to look at options to move the business out. I received a Leader Grant from the Government and got planning permission for a timber-clad, steel-framed building to house a nursery.

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