The transformation follows the building’s purchase last year, by Lancashire businessman Edgar Wallace, who is understood to have family connections to the school.
The deal has swelled the Safehands portfolio to 15 – a rapid expansion from just three settings, five years ago.
Safehands Nursery at Out Rawcliffe, in the Over Wyre area of Lancashire, will employ ten to 20 members of staff and offer places to around 60 children from babies to aged five.
It boasts its own woodland and pond, complete with resident owl, where the group plans to run a ‘forest school’.
Safehands managing director Paul Manning said, ‘We’ve already recruited a manager and a deputy manager from the local area. Local knowledge is important.
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