ServicesWhere the margin is, and how to capture it.
Value Creation Programmes
The diagnostic shows you where the margin is. The value creation programme helps you capture it.
We work alongside the management team for six to twelve months, implementing what the diagnostic identified. This is not a strategy deck. It's working sessions with area managers, rebuilt funded hours models with finance teams, and monthly tracking until the gains are embedded and the team can sustain them independently.
Engagements typically cover:
NMS selection and implementation
Central overhead right-sizing
Management reporting
Board pack development
Funded hour strategy and local authority negotiation
Fee restructuring
Occupancy and ratio optimisation
Workforce cost management
Retained on a day rate or monthly retainer, scoped to the group.
Commercial Due Diligence
Investing in early years benefits from having someone on the diligence team who has operated a nursery group at scale, not just assessed one from the outside.
We give investors an operator's perspective on the business they're looking at.
Operational quality
Management team capability
Regulatory & safeguarding risk
Technology infrastructure
And an honest, experience-based view on whether the margin improvement thesis holds up when tested against the day-to-day reality of running settings.
Having spent years inside PE-backed nursery groups, we've seen which cost improvements are sustainable and which tend to unwind. We've seen what Ofsted risk looks like before it surfaces in the inspection. And we've evaluated enough nursery management systems to know which will support growth and which will become a constraint.
Fixed price per transaction. Scoped to portfolio size and timeline.
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