Staffed by enthusiastic and knowledgeable practitioners, given the opportunity to work to their strengths, Training Depot Day Nursery is offering children in a deprived area of Luton the perfect start to life…

There’s no one reason any nursery is successful; success, be it financial, educational or a happy combination of the two, is invariably down to a number of factors – from strong leadership and good training, to creativity and simple hard work. Staff at the Training Depot Day Nursery can point to each of these factors as having played a role in their setting’s success, but press them to pick a single reason why they’re ‘outstanding’ in every area and they’ll give you a one-word answer: ‘teamwork’.

Situated in a deprived area of Luton, the Training Depot occupies what was once a detached home, its two storeys and attic room, packed with opportunities for learning and play, offering early years education for 46 children from one year of age. Its owner, David Reavell, took the reins of what was at the time a struggling business in 2006, having previously operated a nursery in the USA. Despite the challenges they had faced, former owner, now staff coordinator, Sandhya Godhania;  long-time manager, Michelle Baldock; and deputy manager, Fiona McCowen chose to  remain with the business, and what on the face of it might seem an unlikely partnership has flourished, collectively transforming the nursery into a setting  whose good practice is being held up by the local council as an example to others in the area.

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