Claire Kenyon, owner of the Children’s Garden Nurseries, a group of two settings, posted on the Champagne Nurseries, Lemonade funding Facebook group on Friday that she had to send her husband out in the snow to collect an emergency personal overdraft of £23,000 from her bank.
She said they needed the money to pay employees and other bills as they had not received the funding of the same amount from Lincolnshire County Council promised three weeks ago.
Ms Kenyon runs one setting in Norfolk and one in Lincolnshire. She received funding from Norfolk County Council on time.
In between receiving the first funding instalment for the spring term in January from Lincolnshire County Council and when the second funding instalment was due, Ms Kenynon had changed her bank account, but had notified the council who confirmed her details had been updated.
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