BUSY BEES DAY NURSERIES (TRADING) LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£157,411
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the Company is the provision of day care nursery services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1996-07-25
- Employees
- 760 (2025 accounts · was 731 in 2024)
- Registered office
- St Matthews, Shaftsbury Drive, Burntwood, Staffordshire, WS7 9QP
- Postcode
- WS7 9QP
- Capital
- 17,382,776 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-10-01
- Next due by
- 2026-10-15
Nature of business (SIC)
- 85100 Pre-primary education
Officers 5 current · 34 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by BUSY BEES HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z9672494 (Tier 2), registered since 2007.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
0.2%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · in the top quarter for parity
Contact details
- Website
- busybees.com
- Phone
- 01543 678450, 0330 333 8133
We're the UK's leading childcare provider. Find your nearest Busy Bees nursery today and give your child the best start in life.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| LEAPFROG DAY NURSERIES (TRADING) LIMITED | 2010-12-20 |
| LEAPFROG DAY NURSERIES LIMITED | 2002-05-02 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| ANGLIA HOUSE, CARRS ROAD, CHEADLE, CHESHIRE SK8 2LA | 2007-10-01 |
| CENTRAL OFFICE, SECOND AVENUE, CENTRUM ONE, HUNDRED, BURTON ON TRENT, STAFFORDSHIRE DE14 2WF | 2004-07-02 |
| SUITE 4 ANSON COURT, HORNINGLOW STREET, BURTON ON TRENT, STAFFORDSHIRE DE14 1NG | 1999-05-27 |
| C/O PRICE WATERHOUSE, SOUTHGATE HSE 61 MILLSTONE LANE, LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE LE7 5QA | 1998-07-06 |
| C/O BDO STOY HAYWARD, FOXHALL LODGE GREGORY BOULEVARD, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 6LH | 1998-04-16 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 70 similar companies in WS
The largest employer among its local peers (760 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1996.
No.9 of the largest pre-primary education companies in Walsall →
Competitors Walsall
This company ranks 9 among pre-primary education in Walsall.
The class of 1996
45%
of the 41,233 companies incorporated in 1996 are still active today; 52% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 36 titles
- Freehold
- 3
- Leasehold
- 33
- Most recent registration
- 2025-06-06
- Price paid, where recorded
- £2,100,000
- Where
- Greater London (3), Medway (2), City Of Derby (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT180660 | Medway | Leasehold | 2025-06-06 | — |
| GR222467 | South Gloucestershire | Freehold | 2024-01-19 | £2,100,000 |
| DY517413 | City Of Derby | Leasehold | 2017-10-26 | — |
| CB425939 | City Of Peterborough | Leasehold | 2017-08-17 | — |
| DY515521 | City Of Derby | Leasehold | 2017-08-17 | — |
| GR417099 | Gloucestershire | Leasehold | 2017-08-17 | — |
| SL247974 | Wrekin | Leasehold | 2017-08-17 | — |
| WR173630 | Worcestershire | Leasehold | 2017-08-17 | — |
| AGL419555 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2017-08-03 | — |
| EX958102 | Essex | Leasehold | 2017-08-03 | — |
| NT531753 | City Of Nottingham | Leasehold | 2017-08-03 | — |
| WT431505 | Wiltshire | Leasehold | 2017-08-03 | — |
| WT431509 | Swindon | Leasehold | 2017-08-03 | — |
| YEA84485 | East Riding Of Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2017-08-03 | — |
| HD312708 | Hertfordshire | Freehold | 2016-08-19 | — |
| HP742252 | Hampshire | Leasehold | 2013-12-11 | — |
| K958839 | Kent | Leasehold | 2013-11-18 | — |
| SY798059 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2011-10-19 | — |
| HD406652 | Hertfordshire | Leasehold | 2011-03-17 | — |
| K749623 | Medway | Leasehold | 2010-11-29 | — |
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