The Lanes Children's Centre

Pre-School Learning Alliance

Hertfordshire Pre-school Learning Alliance is Lead Agency for eight Children's Centres in Hertfordshire:

• Barleyfields covering Woolmer Green and Knebworth
• Bluebell covering Hitchin South and villages
• Chestnut Tree in Letchworth Garden City
• Chorleywood and Loudwater
• Ebury covering Eastbury
• Lime Tree in Letchworth Garden City
• The Lanes covering Chipperfield, Bovingdon and Sarratt
• Three Villages covering Nash Mills, Kings Langley and Bedmond

The Pre-school Learning Alliance is a leading educational charity specialising in the early years. We provide practical support to over 15,000 early years settings and make a positive contribution to the care and education of over 800,000 young children and their families each year. We actively involve parents and families in all aspects of our work.
Our mission is to:

• Help children to succeed
• Create the childcare that families need
• Build learning communities

Our work is dedicated to supporting the work of community pre-schools, whether through training courses, quality assurance systems, local visiting by skilled advisers, a range of helpful publications and other merchandise, advice and help lines, advocacy or help with PR and fundraising.

Employing more than 2,000 national and local staff, whose work is supported by more than 40,000 volunteers, the Pre-school Learning Alliance is also the largest grass-roots movement committed to the education and well-being of children and to the value of education as the means to a better life for the community as a whole.

The charity, in a very real sense, belongs to its members. Our 400 branches are made up of representatives from member pre-schools and they, together with other committed individuals, shape the direction of the charity.

All of this effort arises from a commitment to the needs of children and to the principle that parents are their children's first and most important educators. In our pre-schools, we work with parents, supporting them in the management of their children's behaviour and in activities which can be a source of enjoyment and learning at home.

We are committed to mutuality and inclusiveness.  Because of this, there are no rigid hierarchies, which means that people can move easily from one role - parent helper, student, committee member - to another.

For more information about the Pre-school Learning Alliance or to become a member please call:
Telephone: 020 7697 2500
Email: information@pre-school.org.uk