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Blackburn Nursery Children Benefit from £20 000 Investment Date:11/03/2009 14:22:35
Nursery tots set to benefit from £20,000 investment in outdoor play area Excited tots attending Little Achievers @ Country Fields Children’s Nursery at Ramsgreave in Blackburn can’t wait for spring when they will have a newly refurbished outdoor play area. Thanks to a £20,000 grant from the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), work has already started on this ambitious scheme to provide exciting outdoor play facilities at the nursery. Managing Director Sharon Alexander is delighted to be able to make these improvements. She says, “We have wanted to develop a first class outdoor activity area since taking over the nursery last summer and we jumped at the chance to apply for this DCSF funded grant. We are thrilled that we can now provide a new and very pleasant garden and play area that is completely safe for our children, giving them the chance to move freely between indoor and outdoor activities. Outdoor activities are an essential part of a child’s daily life, not an optional extra and learning through outdoor play is just as important as indoor activities. The new area has been well planned and specifically designed to meet our children’s interests and their need to be active, and also noisy and messy at times, in a totally safe environment.” The new garden and outdoor play area will boast an exciting choice of interesting activities including a multi sensory garden and an area for an area for the children to grow their own fruit and vegetables. All the play equipment will be made from Lancashire sourced wood from sustainable sources, and recycled products are also being used where available. The nursery applied for the funding via Sure Start which has been responsible for administering and allocating the DCSF grants. Managed by Rosy Apple Childcare Ltd, Little Achievers @ Country Fields is a 75-place nursery for children age 0-5. Set in 120 acres of open countryside, the nursery also offers holiday and out of school care for children up to the age of 8 years. Rosy Apple Childcare Ltd, which also manages three Little Achievers Day Nurseries across Preston, won the coveted Performance Through People Award at the 2008 BIBAs and the Nursery Management Today’s Business Development Award in 2006.

Blackburn Nursery Children Benefit from £20 000 Investment Date:11/03/2009 14:22:35

Nursery tots set to benefit from £20,000 investment in outdoor play area Excited tots attending Little Achievers @ Country Fields Children’s Nursery at Ramsgreave in Blackburn can’t wait for spring when they will have a newly refurbished outdoor play area. Thanks to a £20,000 grant from the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), work has already started on this ambitious scheme to provide exciting outdoor play facilities at the nursery. Managing Director Sharon Alexander is delighted to be able to make these improvements. She says, “We have wanted to develop a first class outdoor activity area since taking over the nursery last summer and we jumped at the chance to apply for this DCSF funded grant. We are thrilled that we can now provide a new and very pleasant garden and play area that is completely safe for our children, giving them the chance to move freely between indoor and outdoor activities. Outdoor activities are an essential part of a child’s daily life, not an optional extra and learning through outdoor play is just as important as indoor activities. The new area has been well planned and specifically designed to meet our children’s interests and their need to be active, and also noisy and messy at times, in a totally safe environment.” The new garden and outdoor play area will boast an exciting choice of interesting activities including a multi sensory garden and an area for an area for the children to grow their own fruit and vegetables. All the play equipment will be made from Lancashire sourced wood from sustainable sources, and recycled products are also being used where available. The nursery applied for the funding via Sure Start which has been responsible for administering and allocating the DCSF grants. Managed by Rosy Apple Childcare Ltd, Little Achievers @ Country Fields is a 75-place nursery for children age 0-5. Set in 120 acres of open countryside, the nursery also offers holiday and out of school care for children up to the age of 8 years. Rosy Apple Childcare Ltd, which also manages three Little Achievers Day Nurseries across Preston, won the coveted Performance Through People Award at the 2008 BIBAs and the Nursery Management Today’s Business Development Award in 2006.

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