With the greatest of pleasure we are delighted to
announce that Little Barn Owls has been short-listed as a finalist for
the prestigious national award of
Nursery World’s - Nursery Of The Year 2015.
Nursery
World is the biggest trade magazine and online platform for the Early
Years industry across the UK, and as standard all good nurseries,
pre-schools and childminders subscribe as Nursery World are essential in
providing vital updates in government policy as well as sector news,
innovative resources and upcoming changes to us as providers. There are a
few other awards out there for the early years community, but for want
of a better explanation, the Nursery World Awards are basically the
Oscars of our industry! So naturally we are over the moon to be one of
the 5 nurseries in the final for this award. They are also very
influential in providing a mouthpiece to our lobbying bodies such as the
National Day Nurseries Association and the Pre-School Alliance who
campaign tirelessly with our support to ensure government take the early
years industry seriously and our rights, funding, and conditions are
fought for. All reasons why we are so proud to have been short-listed for
this award.
This
year Nursery World told us they received a record number of entries in
the several hundred’s for Nursery of the Year 2015. With around 18,000
nurseries across the UK, this is the biggest and most well recognised
accolade we could try to achieve in our industry. Both Craig and I are
extremely proud of the staff and the tireless way they work to maximise
the children’s experience at LBO. We all celebrated being nominated with
a few bubbles at our staff meeting on Tuesday evening! We won’t find
out till the event in London on the 26th September..!
On
top of that, ten of us are attending the Business Matters Awards at the
Gatwick Hilton on Friday night as we are finalists for 3 awards there
too – Team of the Year, Innovation in Business, and Work Place Training
& Education for Staff. So we will be getting our glad rags on and
will be sure to take a few pics to share with you – please have your
fingers crossed for us for a win!
Fingers crossed (!) and kindest regards from one proud Nursery Owner,
Hayley
Managing Director
Little Barn Owls Nursery & Farm School
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