LifeLine Projects
Little Learners is run by LifeLine Projects, a charity supporting young people and adults in East London.
LifeLine began in 2000, when a group of volunteers, meeting in their local coffee shop to discuss community issues, realised that they could be part of the solution. Initially supporting isolated and marginalised women, LifeLine has since grown into a large community-based social enterprise.
Our vision
We want every child that leaves Little Learners to be well-prepared and ready for school, determined to continue learning, and to have a positive effect on their friends and their community in the future.
Our mission
To this end, we will:
work in partnership with parents
Foster both confidence and an appetite for learning
Provide an environment that supports learning and development
Have high expectations for our Little Learners
Employ highly qualified and passionate staff
Our values
Our culture springs from our core values of excellence, integrity, ownership, compassion, and team.
Excellence
We encourage each other to improve and succeed.
Integrity
We are confident in who we are and act with honesty. We are open and never hide things.
Ownership
We look after things. We’re pleased when others succeed and show empathy in disappointments.
Compassion
We want the best for each other and go out of our way to be kind and support each other.
Team
We ask for help from those more able. We offer help to those in need.
Our history
2003
LifeLine developed a range of support services designed to equip parents with the skills that they were asking for.
2005
LifeLine established the Parentlink forum with experts to identify best practice for local and national parent support groups.
LifeLine’s first Nursery opened. We established and ran one of the first sure start children’s centres in Barking & Dagenham, including a 60 place Nursery. We went on to manage five other children’s centres across London.
2008
We established Totally Mums, providing ante- and post-natal care in partnership with local hospitals.
2012
We contributed to the Government’s ‘Breakthrough Britain II’ paper, published by CSJ in 2015.
2015
We established Little Learners independent Nursery and Pre-School in Elm Park to provide the kind of high quality Nursery that we would want for our own children. We subsequently opened a second Nursery in Ilford.
2017
St Nicholas Avenue was rated as a GOOD provider by Ofsted.
2022
We opened our second nursery at Ambleside Avenue in Elm Park.
2023
St Nicholas Avenue was again rated as a GOOD provider by Ofsted.
