After the euphoria of Paint Pots Nurseries winning Nursery World’s Nursery Group of the Year 2018, director David Wright was brought back down to earth on the following Monday when he was ‘summoned to unblock a particularly unsavoury nursery toilet’.
The family-run nursery group was started in their Southampton family home by David’s wife Anna in 1993 with a small pre-school. Despite the group having expanded to six nurseries, three pre-schools and two after-school clubs, the couple and their son Joseph (pictured right) remain very much hands-on directors. All three are Early Years Teachers, have spent time as nursery practitioners and managers and still work in their settings if needed. Their company’s ethos is based on the underlying values in the Paint Pots Pyramid: Love, Laughter and Learning.
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