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Tinies
Company typeLimited Company
IndustryChildcare
Headquarters
London
,
UK
Key people
Ben Black, CEO,Oliver Black, CEO and Amanda Coxen, CEO
OwnerBen Black, Oliver Black and Amanda Coxen
WebsiteTinies.com

Tinies Childcare is a childcare company in the United Kingdom.[1] It was acquired by brothers Ben and Oliver Black in March 2000.[2] In August of that year they were joined by Amanda Coxen.[3] Founded in 1975, by Janet Trethewy Tinies was a nanny agency with 5 branches around the country. Today Tinies is a childcare recruitment company with over 30 childcare & nanny agencies in the UK.[4]

Tinies specialises in the recruitment of nannies and nursery staff, and the provision of fixed and mobile crèches.[5]

In 2007 Tinies secured its first government Sure Start contract.[6] Tinies now manages the holiday playschemes for over 32 government departments.

On behalf of fitness chains and corporate companies Tinies manages a chain of 25+ fixed creches & junior/kids club programmes. Tinies also run the overseas recruitment schemes for the leading UK holiday company Thomson Holidays.

Ben Black went on to found a web-based emergency childcare service,[7] which went on to become the award-winning family friendly employee benefits company My Family Care[8] (who also own Nannyshare.co.uk).

References

  1. ^ Tinies Childcare - "Largest childcare recruitment agency in the UK"
  2. ^ "Brothers in nanny business"
  3. ^ "Supper Nanny Expert".
  4. ^ All Tinies Branches Archived 2009-08-31 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Grannies should become nannies to meet rising demand". The Daily Telegraph. London. 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  6. ^ "Tinies Wins Its First Government Contract" Archived 2009-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Emergency Childcare"
  8. ^ "The Tinies & My Family Care Story" Archived 2010-03-25 at the Wayback Machine

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