Discover exceptional childcare & early years education at your local tiney home nursery

tiney helps dedicated educators open joyful childcare settings from their own homes. Search below to find a tiney home near you.

Romana and Ramisha’s tiney home in Mitcham

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  • Child-led playful learning

  • DBS checked & First Aid trained

We’re creating the UK’s most loved childcare community

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What’s different about tiney?

Want a flavour of what you can expect when you sign up with one of our tiney childminders? Watch our mission video and have a look through our family pack to learn what’s so special about tiney, and how our tiney home nurseries are different from other childcare settings.

Take a look inside some of our tiney homes

All kinds of teachers, professionals and caregivers have started new careers with tiney to build a diverse community of hundreds of nurturing homes.

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tiney on the BBC News; see how tiney is supporting families during coronavirus

tiney is helping families across London find great childcare and new work opportunitites in the midst of Covid-19

Meet Our tiney Childminders: Former Primary School Teacher Alicia Wilkins

Start your own tiney home

tiney is on a mission to find brilliant people who share our dream of giving every child a quality Early Years education. You’ll learn how to start your own home nursery and be supported by our world class education training, guidance and community as you go!

Blerina's story

“I want to help children fulfil their potential in so many ways and I love that the community of tiney childminders come from lots of different backgrounds but are all passionate about working with children and helping hard-working parents.”

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Founded by a team of parents & education experts

At tiney we’re creating the type of early years education we want for our own families. Our CEO, Brett Wigdortz, previously spent 15 years leading Teach First, a charity that has trained over 10,000 new teachers to work with over a million children at primary and secondary school. Having realised that more support was needed for children from an even earlier age, and as a father of three, Brett brought together our superstar team of experts to create tiney.

Meet the tiney app

The tiney app makes life super simple. We streamline payments, daily communication, educational progress and much more to make every day happy.

For families the tiney app allows you to easily stay up-to-date with your child’s day. See all features for families

For tiney childminders, manage the day-to-day running of your nursery with the app. See all features for childminders

tiney in the press.

With TeachFirst he persuaded college graduates to work in inner-city schools. Now Brett Wigdortz wants to transform childminding, he tells Helen Rumbelow

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The idea for Tiney was born, which was to form a hybrid of nursery and childminder, or a string of “tiny” nurseries that “combine the high-quality educational curriculum…

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The founder of Teach First is hoping to revolutionise childcare by re-training London professionals as childminders for free through a new app.

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