‘DELIGHTED’ staff at a Rugby nursery are facing a less fraught winter after they were given a timely share of their company’s profits to help them meet soaring bills.
Employees of Nature Trails Day Nursery in Cawston have been given a tax-free bonus of up to £3,000, a pay rise, two meals a day in nursery, and shopping discounts – thanks to the profit-sharing policy at employee-owned parent company Childbase Partnership.
Full-timers will get six tax-free monthly payments of up to £500 each, while new recruits on contracted hours will get up to £100 a month until May.
Hannah Richardson, a Nursery Practitioner at the Coventry Road site, says the plan could not have come at a better time.
She said: “I’ve just returned from maternity leave after having my baby so I couldn’t be more delighted to receive this news. Our company has always stepped up when the going gets tough and this has been a real weight off for so many of us at the nursery.”
Team Leader Katie Andrews, who has worked at Nature Trails for nearly four years, added: “The sense of relief is amazing for all of us. We have all been looking at our bills coming in and imagining a very difficult winter. The fact that this plan gives everyone a boost in different ways is just brilliant.”
Childbase Partnership Chief Executive Officer Emma Rooney said: “Every employee is a partner in our business, and we stand together during tough times. Ensuring the security and wellbeing of colleagues is not only vital to our mission to achieve the best possible outcomes for every child in our care – it is also, quite simply, the right thing to do.”
