Scots ethical investment enterprise buys nursery

An ethical investment enterprise has bought an award-winning Larkhall nursery with the support of a six-figure funding package from Bank of Scotland.

Glasgow-based Kids Connecting, founded last year, has acquired Big Bird Nursery and its premises. It marks the first business acquisition in its ethical investment portfolio.

Kids Connecting, set up by former social worker Kathy Black and her husband David, is now exploring the possibility of introducing “flexi-schooling” to the nursery.

The system, which is popular in Scandinavia, offers children from five years old and upwards the chance to split their time between nursery and primary school during a transition period ahead of entering full-time education.

David Black said: “We founded Kids Connecting to champion an ethical, socially-minded way of doing business.

“Big Bird Nursery is the first of hopefully many projects that will contribute to our goal of building integrated connected communities.”