The Olive Tree Nursery

📢The 'free childcare' offer: What parents and carers need to know.📢

Many of you will have seen and heard about the crisis facing all early years settings at the moment, this may have come from national news bulletins, social media posts, or friends and family. Sadly, depending on where the information originated from it may not always be factually correct and may be spun to look much more beneficial or attractive to those who do not fully understand the impact, on occasion the misinformation has caused friction between early years settings and members of the public as we have been portrayed as 'money grabbers' this, however, is far from the truth.
The Early Years Alliance have put together information and resources for us to inform parents of the struggles all early years settings have been facing and continue to face, and we beg you to get on board and write letters to our local MP to raise awareness. With the expansion of the funded hours in April, this will undoubtedly force more settings to close their doors for good. We would like to reiterate that we are in no way against the government providing families with funding and we are pleased that the expansion of the funding means that early-years education will now be available to children from a younger age and will support parents in funding these places, however, what we are against is the continued lack of funding provided by the central government.
Early Years workers do not do this job for the money, we do this job for rewards that it brings however, the lack of recognition that is given by all politicians is starting to take its toll on the workforce. During Covid, when early years were a fundamental part of keeping the country running, we were under the umbrella of ‘Education’ now that we are having our income capped and the government are searching for votes we are ‘childcare’ however, like schools we have a curriculum to follow, we have records to keep and futures to build.

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Day 6 & 7 of the Bearpees Challenge - Total of 296

This weekend Beccy has added another 80 bearpees to her total! 30 on Saturday (her 'rest' day) 50 on Sunday!

Please follow the link to donate!
https://www.justgiving.com/page/the-olive-tree-nursery-1695048126381

Please get behind Beccy and sponsor her no matter how small, this is no easy task but she is putting her all into it every day (even this week when she is on school holidays with her children!)
If you do not want to transfer online due to security we can take cash at the nursery and we will happily add this to the total!

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Day 5 of the Bearpees Challenge - Total of 216
If completing the burpee challenge wasn't enough Beccy set herself her own challenge today and completed 50 (YES FIVE - ZERO!!) Bearpess, this lady truly is a machine!!
Please follow the link to donate!
https://www.justgiving.com/.../the-olive-tree-nursery...
Please get behind Beccy and sponsor her no matter how small, this is no easy task but she is putting her all into it every day (even this week when she is on school holidays with her children!)
If you do not want to transfer online due to security we can take cash at the nursery and we will happily add this to the total!

Day 3 & 4 of the Bearpees Challenge - Total 166
On Wednesday and Thursday, Beccy was able to add a total of 90 burpees to her challenge!
Please follow the link to donate!
https://www.justgiving.com/.../the-olive-tree-nursery...
Beccy has kindly (or madly) agreed to complete the Children in Need Bearpee Challenge, raising vital funds for this amazing charity. Now it is up to us to get behind her and raise lots of money! if you are able to donate, please do! Beccy will be smashing out her Bearpees each day up until Friday 17th November and once she is back at work next week, we will get the children to cheer her on!

💪Beccy's Bearpee Challenge in aid of Children in Need - 33 Bearpees complete!!💪

Please follow the link to donate!
https://www.justgiving.com/page/the-olive-tree-nursery-1695048126381

At 6.30 this morning Beccy started her Bearpee Challenge for Children in Need.
Beccy has worked for The Olive Tree Nursery since the day it opened and when we saw this year's Children in Need challenge there was no doubt who could smash this! Beccy loves a challenge and smashed out her first 33 burpees in just over 3 minutes this morning! Now it is up to us to get behind her and raise lots of money for a great charity! if you are able to donate, please do! Beccy will be smashing out her Bearpees each day up until Friday 17th November and once she is back at work next week, we will get the children to cheer her on!