Our Story and Ambitions
A decade of experience. A vision built on making childcare affordable for working families.
A decade of industry experience behind every decision
Our company history goes back to the middle of the 2010s, when our director, Vic Johnston, took on responsibility for the systems at a childcare voucher provider — a company that went on to offer a number of other benefits, including the Workplace Nursery Scheme.
Having become a director of that company and been involved for more than a decade, Vic recognised the opportunity to offer this incredible benefit to a wider audience of employers and employees.
The vision was to create a more scalable, quicker and more automated system that would allow employees to self-serve the savings available from this scheme — using current technology to provide enhanced security, a faster and slicker interface, and tools that let employers oversee the scheme with very little input and simply watch the savings grow for both the company and their people.
Built for modern employers of every size
Having worked in both multinational corporations and smaller companies, Vic has ensured our systems are designed so that any employer can simply use them — and can choose to integrate to whatever extent they need.
Enterprise infrastructure, accessible to everyone
We have a fully secured, fully scalable infrastructure that you would expect to find in a large multinational corporation — ensuring our systems remain quick and reliable, whilst being designed so that any size of company can take advantage of the salary sacrifice Workplace Nursery Scheme and start saving as swiftly as possible.
Our systems scale to the needs of our clients, so you can be certain they will remain quick and easy to use no matter how many employees are engaging with the benefit. Whether you have two employees or two thousand, your experience should be seamless.
Keeping working parents in the workforce
What really matters to us is ensuring that working parents — often mothers — are able to keep their place in the workforce by making nursery care more affordable. The UK's childcare costs are among the most expensive in the OECD, and we know that between the gender pay gap and the price of nursery care, a significant part of the workforce is being lost — harming employers who lose talented staff, and harming parents who are being financially disadvantaged by the current costs.
This is why we are thrilled to help parents and employers make significant savings on nursery care without changing nurseries, by making use of our Workplace Nursery Benefit Scheme. Think Cycle to Work, but for nursery care costs.
There is a great deal of information on our website about how this works and what savings you can make. But if you want to hear it from us directly, call us on 0800 888 6629 or use the contact form and leave us your details.
UK childcare: one of the most expensive in the world
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