Chestnuts Childcare
Chestnuts Childcare
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Member since Sep 2009 Last Updated Mar 2025 Last Login 28 Apr 2025
Our Summary
Flexible Childcare 52 Weeks A Year To Support Parents And Carers Requirements.
About Us
My name is Christine, and I have been a Childcarer for over 22 years.
At present, I am working towards my BA in Early Years .
I have opened up a childcare facility in Shirebrook. It offers a nursery with flexible childcare as well as an out of school and holiday club. We are the only local setting open 5 days a week to support shift patterns.
This environment is great for children of all ages and abilities, having disabled access throughout the building.
This environment offers older children the opportunity to interact with a large amount of activities such as heuristic play that are age and stage appropriate. We have recently added a new baby room and rearranged the other rooms to offer a really unique setting. We will offer a range of food and drinks as well as outings in the holiday.All food is freshly made on site daily.
The younger children have opportunities to explore and develop in a highly stimulating environment with lots of age and stage appropriate activities.
The setting has 24-hour cctv on site in all rooms to allow parents/carers to have peace of mind as well as keep the environment safe.
Awarded and gained national highly commended 2008 Childminder of the year by Nursery world and runner up for the 4 Children s charity in 2008.I gained finalist for Childminder of the year 2010 for Nursery world.
I live with my husband Lee, who is NVQ 3 trained in childcare and two children, Stephen is 27 years, and Francesca is 22 years old.
The setting is run by a fantastic Manager. She has numerous amount of experience in childcare.
We make regular outings and trips during holiday time, which are extra to the hourly price. Children have the opportunity to enjoy play in a loving and welcoming home environment.
We regularly plan to meet the needs of all children with the support of parents and carers. Due to us having our learning journals online, it gives parent/carers the opportunity to view information about their child such as daily diaries, observations, photos and in return parent/carers can interact online with their child's key worker and upload any relevant information they have on their child. It allows us to develop a whole picture of each child. Throughout the year, each of the rooms will have a coffee morning/parents evening so you can spend time with the key worker and explore your child's progress in learning and development.
We also welcome children with all additional/ special educational needs and those from different cultures and backgrounds.
We have a vast amount of experience with multiple births and children with Autism, Adhd, Aspherger's, PDA, behaviour issues, and Downs syndrome.
We also have extensive knowledge and experience with bilingual children.
All staff are paediatric first aid trained and regularly undertake additional training. All my childcarers are minimum NVQ level two trained in childcare.
FREE 9 month to 5 YEAR OLD FUNDED PLACES AVAILABLE IN A HOME FROM HOME ENVIRONMENT.
Have you got access to the extended entitlement so you can access 30 hours free for your child, BUT CAN NOT USE ALL OF IT AS YOUR CURRENT SETTING DOESN'T OFFER IT. Why not split your hours and do the other 15 hours with us. The only extra charge would be £5.00 per day if we have to pick up or drop off your child either at school or home.
Open 5 days a week,52 weeks a year, we are extremely flexible to meet all parents/ carers' needs.
We also do a variety of school pick ups and drop offs in Shirebrook -St Josephs;Model School; Park Road; Langwith Bassett and Brookfield; Sherwood School- Warsop, Calow Primary,Welbeck street C of E Bolsover, Horsehead lane junior school Bolsover, Scarcliffe Primary, Shuttlewood - Brockley Primary, Bramley Vale primary, Bolsover Academy school, New Bolsover school, Whaley Thorns Primary; Cuckney Primary, Palterton primary school, Birklands -Warsop, Hetts Lane- Warsop, Church Vale school -Church Warsop, Meden Vale- Warsop, Anthony Bek-Pleasley schools
If your school is not one of the above and if you are interested ,we will try to accommodate your needs for the school you require (subject to availability)
We do, where possible, pick up and drop offs from home. At the moment, we cover Bolsover, Palterton, Shirebrook, Whaley Thorns, Cuckney and Warsop areas.
All our vehicles are fully insured, and each child travelling in them is fully insured in case of accident or injury.
We accommodate early mornings from 5 am. for those parents working shifts.
We are being really flexible with parent/carers who need childcare, including unsociable hours, to meet their work commitments.
Since sept 2024, we offer in house care through Chestnuts school care at Bolsover Infants and juniors on Welbeck road. This is based within the school and for children who attend these schools only during term time.
IF YOU WANT THE VERY BEST IN CARE AND EDUCATION FOR YOUR CHILD,THEN LOOK NO FURTHER .
YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED AT WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER
Our Availability
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| Overnight | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Last Updated: 18/03/2025 | |||||||
Our Fees
- Childcare from £25.50 per morning
£6.30PER HOUR.(week days between 7.30 am to 6.30pm)
Prices after 6.30pm are £7.30 per hour
Inset days and Bank Holiday rate is £7.30 per child per hour
Early Mornings before 7.30am- £7.30 per hour
We charge £5.00 a day for all food and drinks. All food is freshly prepared by our chef
full day meal and snacks £5.00
main meal and snack only £2.85
A £5.00 per day pick up charge is added if you require us to pick up from home or be involved in school runs.
OPENING TIMES
Monday to Friday - 05.30am- 19:00pm
These prices include any outings, celebrations and trips as well as all food and drink.
We accept all types of childcare vouchers as well as the tax free childcare.
If you would like to have a look around with no obligations or to sign up then simply call us to arrange a visit.
Our Ofsted Inspections
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Our Documents
- DBS Check (added 05/07/2022)
- Ofsted Certificate (added 25/05/2022)
- Training Certificate: level3 childcare (added 25/05/2022)
- Training Certificate (added 25/05/2022)
Reviews
5 out of 5
Parents say
This nursery receives overwhelmingly positive feedback from parents. Children are reported to be thriving, happy, and well-cared for by attentive and friendly staff. The facility offers a safe, stimulating environment with regular updates and photos provided to parents. Many reviewers praise the personalized care and recommend the nursery highly to others.
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Latest reviews
Below are the latest reviews for Chestnuts Childcare. Please note that reviews represent the subjective opinions of other Childcare.co.uk members and not of Childcare.co.uk. Parents must carry out their own checks and references on childcare providers to ensure that they are completely happy before enaging in the use of their services.
My son has been at chestnuts for just over 2 years now. It’s outstanding!! Staff go above and beyond to make sure your children are safe, well looked after and most importantly, happy!!
You don’t ever have to worry about anything!
You and your children are treat like family, and they also have an app you can track your child’s full day on.
I can not recommend this nursery enough and I wouldn’t ever go anywhere else. Absolutely amazing l!!!
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Carlie
on 19/02/2025
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Chestnuts Childcare
on 19/02/2025:
Thank you Carlie for a beautiful review.
My child loves this nursery. We had a problem with the previous nursery because she didn't want to go there. And she loved this one from the first days. I know my child is in safe hands
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SYLWIA
on 17/02/2025
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Chestnuts Childcare
on 17/02/2025:
Thank you for this really lovely review
I have two children who are 2 and 4 and they both attend chestnut 5 days a week they are absolutely thriving since starting at the nursery the stimulation the updates everything is absolutely amazing they are also extremely understanding and amazing down to a T with everything for the kids!
The staff are absolutely wonderful and polite every single day with a job I cannot imagine how difficult can be some days! These guys certainly do not get enough recognition for the amazing work they do with all the kids!
110% would recommend for anyone!
Thank you guys for always being amazing with me and my babies! X
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Elise
on 13/02/2025
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Chestnuts Childcare
on 14/02/2025:
A really lovely review Elise thank you so much.
My son had been with chestnuts now for a while and is in the pre-school room. The staff and one lady in particular are incredibly. L is the most kindest lovely nursery practitioner, all the ladies in pre school are good but we have more interaction with L than the other ladies.L always gives my son the biggest smile, high 5 and cuddle which he absolutely loves.. L will always ask if he’s ok but also ask if me I’m ok which means more to me than she will ever know. Chestnuts is amazing and my son as come on so much.. The owner is lovely and will go above and beyond.. which you don’t often get.. If nursery could get an award then chestnuts should get it… and especially L for being who she is
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Lins1980
on 12/02/2025
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Chestnuts Childcare
on 13/02/2025:
Thank you so much for a really unique and lovely review.
My daughter has been attending Chestnuts since November and absolutely loves going! They all make the service and time there for H extremely personable, a home away from home. They all understand her needs, work on her personal development and ensure there is plenty of activities to do. She often comes away talking about the different members of staff and how they make her feel happy and smile! She’s come on no end attending Chestnuts and I’m grateful for their input into H.
Thank you all.
Leah
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Leah
on 12/02/2025
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Chestnuts Childcare
on 12/02/2025:
Thank you so much for a really fantastic review.
My son been going to chestnuts for a hood few years now and he absolutely loves it all staff are very supportive, the owner is absolutely lovely , any problems they get sorted straight away I would highly recommend chestnuts to every parent I know ❤️
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chloe
on 11/02/2025
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Chestnuts Childcare
on 12/02/2025:
thank you so much for such a lovely review
My little girl started with Chestnuts when she was 9 months old. She settled in very quickly with the help of the baby room staff. She always seems happy at the end of the day and they always post photos so you can see what they're up to
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Beth
on 11/02/2025
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Chestnuts Childcare
on 11/02/2025:
Thank you so much. This is such a nice review.
The staff are amazing, friendly welcoming and professional always happy to answer questions and help you ,my little girl loves them they always have smiles on their faces and are so caring . The nursery works very hard to accommodate you and has been able to accommodate change in days at short notice . There is an app that they use and it keeps you up-to-date with things that are happening while your child’s at nursery nappy changes ,food, activities you can also message them on it . I feel at ease knowing my little girl is in very good hands.
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TracyR81
on 11/02/2025
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Chestnuts Childcare
on 11/02/2025:
Thank you so much for such a lovely review. x
I cant fault this nursery at all, my little boy has settled in so well here, the staff are all so kind and friendly. I have had nothing but positive experiences with this nursery. I genuinely don’t think you could find somewhere with kinder staff. They offer great meals to my boy, they are always updating his progress and they send me lovely pictures throughout the day.
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Jess
on 11/02/2025
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Chestnuts Childcare
on 11/02/2025:
Thank you so much for such a lovely review
i love to send my child on this childcare because the staff is very good, he treat my kids with professionalism and he respond in all our problems. my sons like to eat, like to play with another kids and staff.
is a place for all kids
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bogdan m
on 01/02/2022
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