We are passionate about ensuring all children have a great start in life, regardless of their background or economic circumstances.
What motivates us is improving outcomes for all children, so our mission is to create digital resources and tools for childcare professionals that support children’s progress and learning.
We work with our expert partners including PACEY, Achievement for All and Bath Spa University and continually listen to our customers to ensure we develop the most effective childminding digital solutions that help early years childcare practitioners and settings to give children the best possible start.
The idea behind Kinderly came from two busy working parents juggling two pre-school children, two full-time jobs and two different nurseries. "We felt we were missing out on so much of our children's early learning journey's as our two year old Jamie wouldn't tell us what he did today and our baby Rocco couldn't!".
Working in collaboration with early years settings and experts (and a lot of research), Kinderly Together was born. The early years software makes it quick and easy for the childcare setting to capture a child's EYFS development milestones and share these incredible moments along with daily activities with parents. With resources and tools at the click of a button and at their fingertips, childcare practitioners can spend more time with the children and parents are more engaged with their learning.
We also recognised that early years practitioners (EYP's) often struggle to find the time or funds for their own personal development. We wanted to help, and in 2017 we applied for funding from the UFI charitable trust to create an exciting new online learning platform to support EYP's to be at their best. Working with our partners and early years experts, Kinderly Learn was launched in early 2019. All the learning has been designed to be engaging, bite-sized (only a few minutes long), accessible and affordable and so far it's getting fantastic feedback from subscribers.
Geraint Barton
Founder and CEO
As a father of two young boys, Geraint founded Kinderly based on his first-hand experience and his personal desire to be fully engaged in his children’s early years learning and development journey. Prior to Kinderly, Geraint spent 11 years as big biological data analyst & software developer at Imperial College and established LabBook, the world’s first e-lab book on Android. His positive, common sense approach, calm under stress and sense of humour makes Kinderly a great place to work.
Blanca Balaguer
Marketing Manager
Blanca has over 20 years experience in marketing and communications having worked for different brands across the UK, Europe and the US. Passionate about tech4good and how technology can make everyone's lives better, she joined the Kinderly Team in 2019. Blanca also brings a unique perspective to her work as a psychotherapeutic counselor. Her mental health background allows her to empathise with Kinderly's audiences and create strategies to support them with digital resources.
Garry Pratt
Chairman
EdTech Specialist and founder of ground-breaking ed-tech company Teachit, Gary now works with educational publishers, edtech companies and start-ups to help develop innovative and successful digital solutions in education. Gary joined the Kinderly team in 2018 and has been instrumental in building structure, growth and investment into the business.
Rebecca Martland
Early Years Expert
Rebecca is an experienced teacher, trainer, consultant, author and four-times Ofsted ‘outstanding’ childminder, and a staunch advocate of play-based, child-centred education and care. She's a regular host on Kinderly Learn's weekly webinars and provides reliable, trusted advice and updates on the latest guidelines and changes in the sector. Rebecca also creates Kinderly’s popular topic-based Weekly Activity Bulletins which link to the EYFS areas of learning.
Tamsin Grimmer
Content Manager - Kinderly Learn
Tamsin is an experienced early years consultant, trainer, author and principal lecturer at Norland College. Passionate about bringing love into pedagogy and early years, Tamsin is an advocate for listening to young children, making learning multi-sensory, active and, of course, playful. She tries to put this into practice with her own daughters!
Tom Champion
Lead Developer
Tom has 12 years’ of experience as a full stack Web Developer, having worked within an agency on various client projects, Tom wanted to work somewhere he could see the software grow and develop; from planning to release and beyond. He has great instincts and a keen eye in design. His cool, cheerful and endearing personality are doing wonders for Kinderly and the Development team.
Fozia Rasul-Saad
Customer Support
Mother of 2 adorable young boys, Fozia understands the importance of engaging with Early Years Practitioners as a parent. Fozia started as a Retail Assistant at Ted Baker, worked her way up to Store Manager and then moved to the HR team. Her 16 years’ experience spans customer services, people management, development training teams and succession planning. Fozia brings to Kinderly her strong customer service skills, positivity and silly sense of humour.
Krzysztof Dryja
Senior Developer
Krzysztof is full stack developer with over 10 years experience in web development. Now working with the Kinderly Team which gives him a great opportunity to learn new tools and share his knowledge. He's interested in programming, IT security as well as enjoying playing guitar and table tennis when he gets a spare minute!
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Hilary Preece
Early Years Consultant and Ofsted Inspector
Hilary is an experienced and successful early years professional having worked in the early years sector for 20 years with over 14 years as an Early Years Inspector with Ofsted and Prospects.
Hilary has also worked in Children’s Centres as an Early Years Teaching Advisor supporting early years settings to deliver the EYFS and improve quality. She has a 1st class BA (Hons) in Early Childhood Studies as well as being a qualified NVQ Assessor.
Ross & Alison Midgley
Founders of Crocus Nursery Group
Alison and Ross Midgley founded the Crocus Nursery Group in 2001 which achieved outstanding Ofsted grades at each of its three nurseries before being acquired by Bright Horizons. Subsequently Alison and Ross set up the leading early years training company PBD, and also acquired a failing nursery which Alison managed and turned round to outstanding in less than a year. Alison and Ross now provide Kinderly with advice and consultancy on practice and business issues relating to early years.
Maureen Hunt
Early Years Lead, Achievement for All
Maureen is responsible for the design and the delivery of AfA's improvement programme for early years settings, Achieving Early. Maureen holds a Bachelor's in Education, a Master's in Education Management, the National Professional Qualification for Headship, and the National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination.
Maureen has worked for National Children's Home (now Action for Children) and Cornwall local authority children’s services, where she developed children’s centres in South East Cornwall.
Theresa Johnson
CPD Manager, PACEY
Theresa is an expert on professional development and training for early years professionals.
She leads on the planning and production of PACEY's many training guides and courses and has been a key contributor in the creation of the Kinderly Learn platform.
Dr Joe Brown
Early Years Lecturer, University of West England
Joe has worked in the early years and play sector for over 20 years, including 10 years running work-based graduate programmes for early year practitioners. Having worked as Programme Leader for the Early Years Initial Teacher Training programme at Bath Spa University, Joe is now early years lecturer at University of West England.
Dr Alyson Lewis
Early Years Lecturer, Bath Spa University
Alyson has worked in the early years sector for 17 years and recently completed her PhD. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Early Years Education at Bath Spa University.
Antony Moore
EdTech Business Development Consultant
Anthony has experience in managing large technology implementation projects; managing key stakeholder engagement; coordinating internal resources to meet deliverables within time and budget.
Since launching in 2015 Kinderly has gained awards and recognition throughout the early years sector and beyond.
“Our members love the product. The main feedback we receive from members is the level of support they receive from Kinderly staff, especially through set up. Kinderly put the customer first which is an ethos we share.”
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