Apples and Honey Nightingale will operate a 30-place full daycare setting in the grounds of Nightingale House, a residential care home for elderly Jewish men and women, based in Clapham, south west London and run by charity Nightingale Hammerson.
Judith Ish-Horowicz, the principal of Apples and Honey nursery, which she set up in Wimbledon 26 years ago, told Nursery World, ‘It’s been my dream for a long time. Various circumstances got in the way, but I thought now is the time.’
Two-and-a-half years ago she approached Ali Somers, who has a social enterprise background and whose child attended the nursery, and together they pitched the idea to the care home’s trustees.
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