Writing: Nursery helps infrastructure charity to weather storms in funding, benefitting Hull residents from babies to older age

Written for Hull CVS, 29/10/2020

Rainbow Nursery is special. Not only does it offer all the services expected of a well-rated nursery, it’s also owned and operated by a local charity – Hull Community and Voluntary Services (Hull CVS). It’s a remarkable operation that’s having a great impact on Hull people, from babies and pre-schoolers, to those for whom childhood is a more distant memory!

Claire Kinsley is Manager at the nursery.

“We’re a very homely nursery,” said Claire. “We’re in a converted, three-storey, Victorian house in a conservation area, surrounded by a lot of natural beauty.

“The most common comment parents make, when they come to have a look round, is that we have a warm and homely feel. We’re like home from home for a lot of the children and that helps them to settle in easily.”

Claire explained how demand for places at the nursery seems go in cycles and phases, but added: “At the moment we’re getting multiple phone calls every day, parents checking availability…

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