Welcome to our website.
We are a family run business, offering outstanding childcare and facilities in South Liverpool. As parents ourselves, we are passionate about delivering the absolute highest quality of care and education to every child we have the privilege of looking after. Honey Pot Nursery group first opened it’s doors in 2007 and has gone from strength to strength since this time and has established a first-rate reputation across Liverpool.
We are the Hurst family and proud owners of Honey Pot Nursery Group. Back in 2007, Julie had been working as a nursery manager in various settings across Liverpool and decided that it was the right time to put her dream and vision into reality. As a family, we purchased our first nursery site in Aigburth and haven’t looked back since. We are exceptionally passionate about the early years, with us all being parents ourselves, we pride ourselves on offering a home from home family feel to all of our children and families who use our service. Despite our fantastic Ofsted gradings, we do not standstill. We are always striving to ensure that our nurseries are the best they can possibly be and continually reinvest money into the nurseries to ensure that children have the best range of quality resources and standards of care and education possible.
We are passionate about delivering the highest quality childcare at locally competitive rates for children aged 0-5 years old. The safety, welfare and happiness of the children in our care have always been our number one priority.
Our ethos is to support the holistic development of children, with a particular focus on children’s well-being in order for them to learn and develop in safe and secure surroundings. Our outstanding environment is carefully planned and adapted to take account of children’s interests and stages of development and are designed to be exciting and stimulating to facilitate the highest levels of engagement in play and learning. We have a very experienced and dedicated staff team who are specialists in the Early Years and child development. We do our utmost to ensure that our nurseries provide an outstanding standard of childcare.
Our History
Honey Pot Nursery Aigburth was established in 2007 by Julie and Tony Hurst. Using their combined expertise in the Early Years sector and business management, they decided to take the plunge and open their first nursery. Tony had spent many years running a successful catering business. Julie had spent years working as a nursery manager in a variety of nursery settings across Liverpool.
The nurseries have been very much a family affair from the very beginning as their youngest daughter Melissa joined them in the nursery in 2007 to gain her childcare qualifications. The following year, their eldest daughter Jenna joined the team during her degree studies in Early Years. Jenna and Melissa are both childcare qualified and have young children of their own, who all attend Honey Pot Nursery and enjoy having their say and opinions included in every day nursery life. Both Jenna and Melissa’s husbands, Michael and Demetri are involved in the running family business.
The family are involved in each of the nurseries every day, they do not manage from a distance and are most definitely ‘hands on’ owners.
Our Philosophy
At Honey Pot, we are influenced by a number of key childcare theorists and pedagogy. Taking parts from Reggio Emilia, Te Whariki with a sprinkle of Montessori and Steiner approaches. We are underpinned by a vision for children that they might be confident learners and communicators, healthy in mind, body and spirit and filled with curiosity and wonder of the world. Our approach is simple, it is our job at Honey Pot to ignite children’s imaginations and curiosity so that they shall enjoy self-directed learning and be thoroughly engaged in play and as a result, deep and purposeful learning shall inevitably take place.
We appreciate that choosing a nursery for your child is an incredibly important decision. We do not take lightly the trust parents place in us when they leave their precious children in our care.
What sets us apart:
- Working together as one big Honey Pot family
- Built for parents, by parents
- Multi award winning nursery group
- A focus on children’s health, well-being and mindfulness
- Fantastic Ofsted judgements
- An established and reputable group
- A range of extra-curricular activities which are included at no extra cost to the parent
- Biometric access systems ensuring the highest level of premises security
- A staff team who are experienced and regularly receive training to ensure their knowledge reflects current best practice
- An accredited forest school programme available to all children at no extra cost to the parent
- Excellent outcomes for children meaning that they leave for school well-prepared and ready to begin their next stages in learning
OUR NURSERIES
Aigburth
358 Aigburth Road
Aigburth
Liverpool
L17 6AE
P: 0151 494 2373
Email: [email protected]
Honey Pot Aigburth is a large detached house situated on Aigburth Road in South Liverpool and was the first nursery owned by Honey Pot Nursery Group. It opened its doors to the public in July 2007 and has gone from strength to strength since. The nursery has a baby room, a pre-toddler room, a toddler room and a pre-school room. It also has a sensory room and an outdoor garden and a separate baby garden. The children also have access to local parks within the vicinity and children go on regular outings and local walks.
Childwall
70 Childwall Valley Rd
Childwall
Liverpool
L16 4PE
P: 0151 722 2500
Email: [email protected]
Honey Pot Allerton is a large detached house situated on Childwall Valley Road within the residential area of Childwall in South Liverpool. Formally a doctors surgery, the building underwent a huge renovation in early 2012 to make it purposely designed for the sole use of a day nursery. It benefits from a baby room, a toddler room and a pre-school room. It also has a sensory room, outdoor garden and separate baby garden
To the rear, we have a purposely designed garden room for children to enjoy uninterrupted play both indoors or outdoors.
Garston
Earp Street
Garston
Liverpool
L19 1RT
P: 0151 305 2023
Email: [email protected]
Honey Pot Day Nursery, Garston, was opened in April 2009 due to the success and high demand for spaces at our sister nursery in Aigburth. Garston underwent a huge renovation in 2019 and now benefits from a baby room, a pre-toddler room, a toddler room, pre-school room, a sensory room, a library, and plenty of other communal play spaces. In addition, it has a large outdoor play area and designated baby garden. The nursery is located close to Garston village which offers the opportunity for children to go on local outings to the park, library and train station amongst many other regular outings.
Wavertree
Chestnut Grove
Wavertree
Liverpool
L15 8HS
P: 0151 305 2022
E: [email protected]
Honey Pot Wavertree was opened in October 2017 due to the success and high demand for spaces in our sister nurseries. The building has also been adapted to include a large training suite and head office where the central support team are based. All of our staff are trained at this site on a regular basis which helps us to achieve outstanding practice. In addition, it benefits from a baby room, a pre-toddler room, a toddler room, pre-school room, a school leavers room, a sensory room, a library, and plenty of other communal play spaces. In addition, it has a large outdoor play area, a designated baby garden and a designated toddler garden.
Allerton
Bridge Chapel Community Centre
Heath Road
Allerton
L19 4XR
P: 0151 427 5210
E: [email protected]
Honey Pot Allerton is situated within the grounds of Bridge Chapel Community Centre, off Heath Road in South Liverpool. Honey Pot Allerton is a recently renovated nursery which cares for children aged 18 months to 5 years. It is also a Breakfast Club, Afterschool Club and Holiday Club for primary school aged children who attend local schools Gilmour primary school and Springwood Heath. It caters for children requiring childcare term time only or those requiring care 51 weeks per year.
Huyton
10 Huyton Church Road
Huyton
Liverpool
L36 5SJ
P: 0151 559 6600
Email: [email protected]
Honey Pot Day Nursery, Huyton, was opened in January 2023 after undergoing extensive renovation. The premises now operates over two floors and an external pre-school building. The benefits from a baby room, a pre-toddler room, a toddler room, pre-school room, a sensory room, a library, and plenty of other communal play spaces. In addition, it has a large outdoor play area and designated baby garden. The nursery is located close to Huyton village which offers the opportunity for children to go on local outings to the park, library and train station amongst many other regular outings.
OUR AWARDS
Nursery World Award 2024
Team Development – Highly Commended
Eco Schools Award 2024 - Finalist
Nursery World Award 2024
Team Development Award – Finalist
Nursery World Award 2024
Health and Wellbeing Award – Finalist
NDNA Supporting staff well-being award
Winner 2022
ECO Schools Distinction Award 2022
Nursery World Award 2021
Team Development Award – Finalist
Nursery World Award 2020
Nursery of the Year award – Winner
Nursery World Award 2020
Eco- friendly early years award – Finalist
Nursery World Award 2019
Team Development Award – Finalist
Nursery World Award 2019
Health and Well-Being Award – Finalist
NDNA – Team Development Award
Winner 2019
NDNA – Innovative Practice Award
Runner-up 2019
Nursery Recognition Award 2019
Nursery Group – Finalist
Millie’s Mark Award 2019
Childwall and Wavertree sites awarded
Time to Change Employer Pledge 2019
“Let’s end mental health discrimination”
Millie’s Mark Award 2018
Aigburth and Garston sites awarded
Nursery World Award 2018
Early Years Launch of the Year – Finalist
Nursery World Award 2018
Team Development – Highly Commended
Children’s Food Trust
Eat Better Do Better Award 2017
Outstanding Award
Nursery World Award 2017
Nursery Food Award – Finalist
Nursery World Award 2017
Team Development Award – Highly Commended
Nursery World Award 2016
Nursery Food Award – Finalist
Family Go Live Award 2016
Best Nursery in Liverpool – Finalist
Family Go Live Award 2012
Best Nursery in Liverpool – Winner