Community

Community

Stone Eden believes that a nursery can only be successful if it makes a positive and visible difference in the community from which it wants to attract parents and their children.

We will help franchisees to work with their community as well as we do with ours, in all of the following ways:

• Providing opportunities for apprentices that we nurture and develop, so that they grow to enjoy a good career in nursery care, administration or professional kitchens – depending on what role they joined us in.
• Supporting local charities with fund-raising events and initiatives – such as Barnardo’s ‘Big Toddle’, cake stalls for local charities or the Stone Eden cookbook that we sell with all proceeds to a local hospice.
• Taking part in local awards, nursery care and business events that demonstrate our active role in the area’s business community.
• Providing flexibility for parents so that they get the childcare they need when they need it instead of forcing them into fixed slots, which means more locals can take on valuable roles in services like the police and the NHS with varied shift patterns.
• Offering government funded and subsidised places to provide more universal access to excellent childcare in the locality.
• Working with the local authorities and other champions of excellent childcare to continually adapt what we offer to meet the needs of the local community.
• Holding regular ‘Open Days’ so that the local community can learn more about who we are, how we operate and what we stand for.
• Regular submissions to the local print and online press that inform and celebrate the activities of our children, our team and our business.
• Presenting a professional image and careful design of our nurseries so they fit in more sympathetically with their local surroundings.

A great relationship with your local community means your nursery will be more visible to the parents you want to attract.

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