Our background

kidsunlimited was set up by husband and wife team Jean and Stewart Pickering on the ground floor of their Victorian semi-detached house in Wilmslow, Cheshire, after they were unable to find a childcare provider to match their exacting standards.

Over the last three decades kidsunlimited has become the fifth largest childcare provider in the UK with a network of over 60 well located and maintained nurseries. Jean and Stewart’s guiding principle of providing the very highest quality of care and education for pre-school children remains at the heart of the business.

Two kinds of nurseries

kidsunlimited offers over 5,500 child places across 64 nurseries in the UK. We operate both independent nurseries open to the local community and workplace nurseries for blue-chip companies such as First Direct, The Body Shop and HSBC, as well as a number of NHS Trusts.

Independent nurseries open to the local community

The majority of our nurseries are conveniently located in urban areas where the population of pre-school children is high and where there is high demand for the highest quality childcare from professionals.

Workplace nurseries for blue-chip companies

Since 1987 we have been operating nurseries which are closely located to areas with a dense concentration of employees looking for high quality childcare.

We’re trusted by a wide range of organisations from major corporates such as HSBC, Toyota, WH Smith and The Body Shop to large public sector and academic institutions such as NHS Trusts, the University of Oxford and Manchester Airport.

Go to our corporate information pages for more details or contact us to discuss your company’s options.

Childcare voucher services

kidsunlimited supports employers in providing childcare vouchers to their employees. Childcare vouchers reduce the cost of childcare for parents and reduce National Insurance costs for employers.

Each month, kidsunlimited facilitates the flow of cash from circa 900 employers to 16,000 childcare providers for 14,000 parents.

Find out more about our childcare vouchers.