We aim to provide the highest quality of early years care at a competitive price which is fun, engaging, educational and caring.Our children have well rounded experiences and develop strong relationships with our caring childcare team. We run initiatives including the “My Happy Minds” mental health programme for early years. Our practitioners are trained in toddler yoga and, we utilise natural resources wherever we can to fit with our forest school ethos.
We opened our pre-school forest school in 2016 and have since expanded the forest school ethos across the business. Our Prestwich pre-schoolers learn in forest school full time. We set up Kids adVentures because we wanted to provide a more rounded approach to early years education and we wanted to work with whole families. As an organisation with its roots in public health and a history of working with adults in the community, we decided to expand into early years so that we could work with the wider family group from a young age.
We have several Level 3 forest school leaders and even have our own trainers so that we can offer this opportunity to the wider team.
All learning can be done in the outdoors utilizing narural resources around us. The children enjoy activities including campfire cooking, den building and taking care of our resident chickens.
Primary school teachers tell us that the children that have come from our forest school are more independent, confident and aware of risk.
The Kids adVentures teams are experienced, caring and always happy to help.
We believe that our staff are our most important asset. As a co-owned organisation, every single member of the staff team across Social adVentures has a say in how the business runs and where we invest back. We have a staff representative on our Board and use a staff engagement tool to collect regular feedback.
We provide enhanced benefit programmes including services like free counselling and perks including interest free loans through staff salaries.
We have high staff retention rates and often staff who leave, end up coming back.