Our Experience
For over twenty years, We have seen what works and what does not.
Your Centre
Your story and new centre should inspire families and give them a reason to drive past other centres to bring their children to you. It’s about being World Famous in your area through real play, teaching children how to entertain themselves, how to become resilient, how to build confidence and how to make each day a special day by choosing the right attitude to be the Best in Care and Education.
We then combine these values with smart business principles so that your new centre is productive, profitable, well-resourced and manageable with a culture that supports happy staff to do what they do best – Create environments that inspire happiness and greatness!
Our Partners
John Wall’s experience encompasses every aspect of the childcare profession, from start-ups to growth and purchase and set-up to sale. For more than 20 years, John has specialised in the strategic analysis and development of sustainable childcare centres, focusing on encouraging happy children and healthy bottom lines.
At EDGE we have over 20 years experience working to help childcare centre owners build the occupancy of their centres through telling their story. We help new centre owners translate their vision and values into a story that connects with parents and communities to build waitlists and busy thriving centres.
Childcare by Design is owned and operated by Dr Brenda Abbey. Dr Abbey has worked in the early childhood sector for over 30 years, and for the last ten has specialised as a childcare consultant. Her practical experience, together with the effective working relationships and collaborative networks she has developed with government and non-government agencies, peak bodies, and industry professionals, ensure your service is high quality, individualistic and profitable.
The Australian Childcare Collective goes above & beyond to set kids up for ‘life success’. We share this philosophy at MTA, which helps make our partnership so successful! We tailor centre fit outs and childcare environments for discovery, learning and fun! We pride ourselves on providing furniture & inspiring resources that are fit for purpose, open ended and multifunctional. (Every resource meets minimum safety standards & 12 month warranty). Personalised service is at the heart of what we do -from initial set up to ongoing support, so your MTA Consultant will become a friendly, familiar face to always help your centre thrive.
Delivering award-winning playscapes and outdoor learning spaces to the education sector for over 10 years, Ausplay Playscapes is committed to creating long-lasting, outdoor spaces for children to play, learn and grow.
From initial design through to construction, surfacing and shade, our highly qualified and experienced team of designers, fabricators and installers ensure that every project is compliant with Australian Standards and delivered to an outstanding quality.
Location is critical in childcare. Even the best operator will struggle in a local market that has too little demand or too much supply. We provide up-to-date market intelligence built on more than 15 years of research on the childcare industry.
Raymond Design is a multi-award winning design studio that specializes in the planning and design of early learning centres Australia wide and has worked internationally in New Zealand, Japan, the USA, Canada and China.
We are passionate about the spaces our future generations occupy in their early years and how important it is to get it right. Being part of the Australian childcare collective allows us to collaborate with like minded professionals that share our passion and help us create an architectural narrative and start the story that forms the basis for the design.
Each centre we design has it’s own unique architectural voice ensuring the successful operation and longevity way into the future.
We understand childcare and are focused on getting it right.
Porta Lawyers have provided legal advice to the Early Learning industry since 2000. Porta Lawyers ensure that you have all the right information to make informed choices when buying, selling, leasing or managing a centre.
We Believe
All children are capable of extraordinary things.
Resilience is something that can be nurtured in all children. Allowing them to be free, to be able to choose for themselves, to be allowed and able to resource their own play and learning, to entertain themselves.
Our centre’s outdoor and indoor environments are unique to Childcare in many ways. As an example they feature four sand pits, two large bike tracks, a waterpark, a large grassy area for children to run around in, a Barnyard, which is home to goats, chickens, ducks, guinea pigs, reptiles and a wide range of bird species. There’s even a Garden World where children learn how to plant, tend to, and eat a variety of herbs and vegetables.
Everything is a journey at your new early learning centre.