The Croft Nurseries Ltd

26/08/2025

Are you passionate about working in early years?

The Croft Nurseries are recruiting for the following opportunities:

- Modern apprentices to work towards formal qualifications in Social Services children and young people.

- We are also looking to hire additional qualified early years practitioners to join our team. (Candidates must hold relevant childcare qualifications)

If you or anyone you know may be interested in the above positions, please email [email protected] with your CV or for further information.

06/08/2025

Come and visit ‘the very hungry caterpillar’ which is part of the Scarecrows of Chapelton festival.

It’s Wednesday so must be 3 plums day, say hello to this magnificent creation outside the Croft Nursery - Scarecrow No 19 The Hungry Caterpillar

10/07/2025

We thank George’s parents for giving us permission to share their story.

Everyone meet George.

George is our very own superhero!

Over the last few years, George has been attending The Croft Nursery - Chapelton starting as a baby. Everyone at The Croft have been honoured and privileged to be part of his story.

George has a rare congenital condition called Oesophageal Atresia (OA) and Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula (TOF), a condition which affects around 1 in every 3,500 babies.

https://tofs.org.uk/

As George embarks on his next mission after the summer holiday, we feel it is fitting to hold some fundraising events for the charity which has provided him and his family with some incredible support.

Any donations to our fundraiser will be hugely appreciated and can be made via the below link.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/the-croft-nursery-1

Help The Croft Nursery raise money to support TOFS

03/03/2025

ELC Funding applications 2025/6

The registration period for session 2025/26 is open from 4th March to 16th March 2025.

Children born between 20th August 2020 and 28th February 2023 are entitled to funded early learning and childcare in the 2025/26 school term.

If your child turns 3 by:

• 31st August 2025, they are eligible to access from the August term 2025

• 31st December 2025, they are eligible to access from the January term 2026

• 28th February 2026, they are eligible to access from the April term 2026

Please use the link below to access the application.

You can get up to 1140 hours of funded early learning and childcare a year if your child is 3 or 4 years old. Find out more about funded hours.

24/02/2025

Grampian City U14s visited Stonehaven in the second grading game. The rain over night made the pitch heavy . Stonehaven started with a depleated squad due to having a few not available game. The game was played in great spirits with both teams playing well.

Credit to the Stonhaven Girls who battled against a well organised Grampian team. Grampian were strong in possession and clinical in front of goal.

Stonehaven continued to play some great football and were resilient breaking through a few times to get shots on the Grampian goal.

Grampian continued to press high and get rewards for there pressure on the ball. A difficult day for the girls from stonehaven but credit to the effort they all put in.

Thanks to our sponsors Aaron Pirie Photography and The Croft Nurseries Ltd and thanks to a creative mum for the photoshop of our keeper who had to run for dancing 💃 😀

05/06/2024

It's all about the children - it's time for Scottish Government and LA's to ensure that the funding truly follows the child and that every child in Scotland is valued and funded to the same level to support equality in staffing and service provision.

Well done to 2020 together for supporting this campaign and to all the nurseries committed to fighting for every child.

2020 Together (We Can) launch their campaign to ensure every PVI nursery child in Scotland is funded fairly, that all staff are paid equally and children ar...

30/01/2024

Dear Parents/Carers
Just to advise that information about two year only funding on the HMRC Tax For Childcare site is only relevant to England at this time.
When it is available in Scotland there is likely to be an application process similar to that for 3 and 4 year old funding.
We will let you know as soon as we have any information.
Kind Regards
The Nursery and OOS Team

10/03/2023

The Croft Nurseries are looking for enthusiastic and passionate people to train as Early Years Practitioners through the Modern Apprenticeship Programme. If you are interested please send your CV to [email protected]

08/12/2022

Dear Parent/carer

As we continue to work with our sector colleagues to fight for a fairer childcare funding settlement for our children, nurseries across Scotland are looking for support from all Parents and Carers to help us achieve fair and equitable funding for all children who are legible for funded placements in Scotland regardless of which type of setting they attend. Please support us by signing the petition in the attached Link.

Many Thanks for supporting us work towards "funding follows the child" and for equity for every child in Scotland.

Thank you

An immediate review of Childcare Funding

18/10/2022

To all parents of children who access funded hours please sign and support.

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to reform the funding model of the 1,140 hours of Early Years Learning and Childcare to allow parents direct control of childcare funding via an online account.

22/09/2022

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