Good Manors new Waterlooville nursery to support parents getting back to work

AT A time when many nurseries are struggling due to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, one popular nursery has announced it is expanding.
Good Manors Day Nurseries has purchased Queenswood Lodge in Waterlooville which will be converted into a new nursery.Good Manors Day Nurseries has purchased Queenswood Lodge in Waterlooville which will be converted into a new nursery.
Good Manors Day Nurseries has purchased Queenswood Lodge in Waterlooville which will be converted into a new nursery.

Good Manors Day Nursery, which already has two centres in Fareham and one in Portsmouth, has announced it’s opening a new nursery in Waterlooville which will provide 55 child places for 51 weeks of the year – and create 15 jobs.

Business and operations manager, Rob Allman, said: ‘We are really excited by this development and are delighted to bring our service and ethos into this new area. It has been a real challenge over the last few months but this is something we had been looking at before the pandemic and we wanted to see it through.’

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Good Manors Day Nurseries business and operations manager, Rob Allman, is excited by the opening of the new nursery.Good Manors Day Nurseries business and operations manager, Rob Allman, is excited by the opening of the new nursery.
Good Manors Day Nurseries business and operations manager, Rob Allman, is excited by the opening of the new nursery.
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To create the new facility the nursery franchise have purchased Queenswood Lodge which was previously a doctor’s surgery.

Mr Allman added: ‘The building has served the community for 50 years and so it’s good to be able to continue to do so. It’s a really good location as there are lots of families in the area.’

Located opposite Queen’s Inclosure - more than 100 acres of woodland - Mr Allman hopes to develop a ‘forest nursery’ which will help get children back to nature.

He said: ‘Being so close we can use the forest for children to build dens and to not only get close to nature but to also learn from it.’

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While April and May saw a decline in the number of children attending Good Manors’ sites, Mr Allman says they are now back to around 80 per cent of normal intake and he’s hopeful of getting back towards full capacity by September.

‘Despite the pandemic we want to invest in the local economy and at some point most parents will need to go back to work and will need childcare to do so,’ he said. ‘Once full, the new nursery will create 15 new jobs.’

The new nursery is expected to be up and running ‘by late autumn’.

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