Meet Fiona Williams, Parachutes Childcare and Little Haven Nurseries.

Background

Hi. I'm Fiona Williams and I'm the founder of the nursery we call Little Haven, LHN Park Road and LHN Pentyrch. 

I have over 20 years’ experience of working with families and children in various childcare settings throughout Cardiff, until recently i was responsible for four Flying Start settings in Cardiff, choosing now to focus on our private provisions and stepping away from the Flying Start program. 

Today, I am responsible for three childcare settings My companies are called Parachutes Childcare Ltd and Little Haven Nurseries Ltd.

Dedicated to Public Service

Helping families and developing children’s potential has always been my passion. Before opening our Little Haven Nurseries, my focus was in public sector childcare with the Welsh Government's Flying Start scheme. At our peak, we ran as many as six Flying Start playgroups helping children and parents across Cardiff get the best possible outcomes.  

WE can now focus fully on offering high quality provisions at our Little Haven Nurseries, offering curious, child led play experiences to children of all ages.

Little Haven

In Little Haven, we want to bring the quality of childcare we have developed over several years of working within the Flying Start program. In the educational sector, our mentality has always been that childcare is about much more than simply keeping children occupied until Mum or Dad collects them. 

The ethos and culture we deliver is ‘learning to play, playing to learn’. At Little Haven, children learn through fun, real life, imaginative and creative experiences that develop independent thinking and curiosity for learning.

Learning Experiences

Our experiences are carefully planned by staff for your children daily.  Our teams take into account your child’s likes and dislikes, needs, age, wishes and views whilst planning for their next experiences.

Purpose-Designed Spaces

Each of our nurseries has been designed to make the best use of the playrooms, with natural light, calm decoration and a cosy homely atmosphere.  All equipment and resources are of the finest quality and chosen for their individual learning potential.

An Amazing Team

Each of our Nurseries is managed by an experienced Manger, Deputy and Practitioners.  Our senior team is responsible for the day to day running of our nursery rooms and works closely with the Managers and Directors who are available daily and oversee all aspects of the company.

We have teams of full and part time experienced, committed childcare practitioners who are responsible for providing a high quality care experience for your children through play.  All staff are qualified with childcare qualifications to a high level and offer quality interactions and engagement throughout the day.

Staff Training

We are passionate about training and supporting our staff. As well as being DBS checked, all staff have passed or are working towards training awards in:

  • Food hygiene

  • Paediatric first aid

  • Safeguarding

  • Speech and language

  • Child-centred learning

  • Wellbeing and involvement

  • Health and safety

  • Makaton sign language

  • Welsh language

  • Observations and assessments

  • Child-adult interaction

  • Play work level 3

We encourage all our staff to continue training up to degree level and beyond (Level 6-7).

 

Our other childcare settings

Little Haven Nursery - Park Road

The Old Community Rooms

Radyr

Cardiff

CF15 8DF

Little Haven Nursery - Pentyrch

Bronwllyn

Pentyrch

Cardiff

CF15 9QL