Why start a nursery?

Nurseries are popular, successful businesses in this day and age. They offer early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education, and could be the perfect place for you if you enjoy working with children. However, if you’re thinking of starting your own nursery school, there’s a lot that needs to be taken into consideration first.

Why Start a Nursery Business?

Starting your own nursery business can be extremely rewarding – the benefits include:

• The ability to influence and be involved in children’s early development, which lays down the foundations for the rest of their lives. Early years are really important – find out more in our article here – and helping to give children the best start makes for a fulfilling career.
• High demand and the potential for great success. The Department for Education’s 2019 report showed that there were 1.7 million childcare places offered in that year in England, with the great majority being from group-based nurseries rather than school-based ones. Few places go spare – only 19% of group-based nurseries’ places were available in 2019 – because more parents are able to work, as a result of changes in employment conditions, and new government childcare schemes. Even throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nurseries have remained open, with roughly 600,000 children continuing to attend through the second wave.
• Freedom to work for yourself. Starting your own nursery gives you the freedom to be your own boss, and if you decide to do it from home, you don’t even have the hassle of travelling.

This should all give you the confidence to know that it is rewarding and beneficial to open and run a nursery.  I personally have been doing it for many years and it has not only allowed me freedoms I wouldn’t have had if I went into traditional employment.  It has been extremely rewarding knowing that I am not only help develop children in my local area but I am also providing jobs and contributing to people’s livelihoods.

In the next section we will find out what it takes to run a nursery from home and whether you are ready to do so.

For this course the home nursery will be referred to its official classification of childcare on domestic premises (CODP).  Though, both will be used interchangeably.