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About Us

The Circle Story

Founded by Michal Kahn, The Children’s Circle was created so that exceptional children's businesses could enhance each other.

Our Origins

Michal has spent more than two decades building, growing, and leading child-focused businesses, including founding and successfully exiting two children’s activity companies.

Over the years, she has led teams, managed large-scale children’s experiences, overseen safeguarding and programme delivery, worked in Nurseries, Holiday Camps and Learning Groups.

Michal has built trusted relationships with investors, schools, families, businesses, advisors and communities. With this great network, she wanted to gather a group of exceptional businesses into one circle, where they could support and inspire each other.

The Team

Today, The Children’s Circle is supported by an experienced team including a CFO, investor partners, and specialist advisors with decades of experience in the sector. 

Together we bring investment, operational expertise and long-term thinking to support what matters most: a fair price, thriving children, thriving teams, and thriving businesses.

Thriving Businesses

We bring deep expertise in finance, strategy, and systems from decades in the children’s sector.

Thriving Businesses

We bring deep expertise in finance, strategy, and systems from decades in the children’s sector.

Thriving Children

We ensure safe spaces, best experiences and great teams to make sure kids thrive.

Thriving Children

We ensure safe spaces, best experiences and great teams to make sure kids thrive.

Thriving Teams

We build relationships with staff, finding their goals and needs so they thrive.

Thriving Teams

We build relationships with staff, finding their goals and needs so they thrive.

Why Us

Why Owners Trust Us

We know that selling your business is a financial decision AND a decision about how to best nurture your team, the children and families that use your service, and the reputation you’ve built over many years. After all, we ourselves have been nursery and children's activity professionals for many years, and are supported by investors and financial experts.

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Sellers and Their Teams Trust Us:

Business owners choose us because we take a fair approach to offers and a supportive, experienced approach to transitions. Our goal is to protect the heart of the business and help it grow into its next chapter.

INVESTORS: An experienced team including investor partners, a CFO, and advisors with decades of sector experience.

HONESTY: We lead with honesty, transparency, fairness and respect for your legacy.

EXPERIENCE: We combine business and investor expertise with experience as nursery and holiday camp professionals

FLAIR: We ensure your business keeps the individual flair that made it so successful, as it heads into its next era.

DETAIL: We learn your business in detail so we can transition seamlessly and preserve what makes it great. 

Sellers and Their Teams Trust Us:

Business owners choose us because we take a fair approach to offers and a supportive, experienced approach to transitions. Our goal is to protect the heart of the business and help it grow into its next chapter.

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INVESTORS: An experienced team including investor partners, a CFO, and advisors with decades of sector experience.

HONESTY: We lead with honesty, transparency, fairness and respect for your legacy.

EXPERIENCE: We combine business and investor expertise with experience as nursery and holiday camp professionals

FLAIR: We ensure your business keeps the individual flair that made it so successful, as it heads into its next era.

DETAIL: We learn your business in detail so we can transition seamlessly and preserve what makes it great. 

Companies We Look For

At The Children's Circle we focus on companies that fit into our group, exceptional companies we know we can nurture and take to their next level.

If your business fits these criteria and you're ready to explore what's next, we'd love to have a conversation:

Passionate Management Team in place

Holiday Camps, Nurseries, and complimentary businesses

Net Profit above £200k

Net Profit above £200k

Companies We Look For

At The Children's Circle we focus on companies that fit into our group, exceptional companies we know we can nurture and take to their next level.

If your business fits these criteria and you're ready to explore what's next, we'd love to have a conversation:

Holiday Camps, Nurseries, and complimentary businesses

Passionate Management Team in place

5+ years of strong performance, with profit £200k + or EBITDA £250k+

Passionate Management Team in place

Holiday Camps, Nurseries, and complimentary businesses

Net Profit above £200k

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