Owning her own nursery has been a lifelong ambition for Andrea Mardel-Ferreira. Now her dream has come true and along with her business partner, Kate Greenaway (not to be confused with the London nursery school and children's centre), she owns two nurseries in Leicestershire.
Achieving this has been the culmination of a long and varied career in the sector. Ms Mardel-Ferreira started out in a private day nursery in her twenties and later worked at a children's centre with children at risk. When a member of her family suggested she run a nursery in a property they had acquired, she went on to build up a successful 70-place site, which within two years had achieved 90 per cent occupancy.
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