Our Staff

At Childcare & Community Centre – Hilton Street you can be sure of a warm, friendly welcome as soon as you enter our doors.

CEO Sue Benson, according to her staff is a very easy-going, approachable and friendly boss. Since 2010 when she joined the team at our Childcare and Community Centre, Sue has seen the nursery go from strength to strength as well as concentrating on the strengthening and expansion of the organisation. To her mind, the thing that makes our centre a fantastic place to work are the staff. In her free time, she keeps three horses which are competed across the country.

Fitness fanatic and financial whizz Lisa Fisher can be found munching away through her mammoth daily fruit salad while furiously processing our in-goings and out-goings. A firm favourite with the out of school children, she always has a smile for everyone. A former athletics county champion, our furtive biscuits are quickly put away from her glaring eyes. Unless it’s short bread – she’ll partake in eating short bread.

Busy bee Sue Marsh started her career at our Childcare centre as a nursery nurse but is now our office administration superstar. Sue processes parents’ requests, all information on free hours and is our mountain of encyclopaedic information about the nursery. Outside of work she ferries her children to rugby and gymnastics competitions and enjoys socialising particularly with Deputy Manager Lisa Pendlebury-Green.

Liam Pendlebury, our gentle giant, will greet you in reception and has information on the nursery and our jam-packed programme of activities. The kids enjoy saying hello and goodbye to Liam and sometimes he does the school runs with nursery nurses. Outside of work, Liam enjoys gigs and bands such as Machinehead and Disturbed.

Nursery Manager Nicola Ambler has spent her whole career in Childcare. Nicola loves our nursery, the staff and the children. Friendly and fair, Nicola always makes time to resolve any nursery issues and the nursery nurses feel comfortable approaching her. Outside of work, Yoga addict Nicola enjoys family holidays, is a Reiki therapist and mindfulness enthusiast.

Deputy manager Lisa Holme enjoys the fact that every day is different and the challenging nature of her role. Lisa feels it’s a great privilege to work with families and a range of other external professionals. She looked after Ryan at 3 and he is now a dedicated trainee Early Years Practitioner. This fills with her pride. Adventurous Lisa used to be a Badminton champion and now enjoys zip wiring in the Lakes, gigs and holidays as well as supporting her daughter in her gymnastic competitions.