After I have paid my staff, paid my overheads - rent, rates, insurance, loan, subscriptions, accountant, gas, telephone, registration fee and so on - and bought any equipment and materials we need, there is little or nothing left.
The nursery has been open for just over a year. My husband does all the overtime he can for us to survive as a family, because I have had no wages since it opened in September last year.
I work from 6.30am to 6pm five days a week in the nursery and then do the paperwork at home. To be able to pay my staff any more than I do, either the Government will have to put money into private childcare facilities or I will have to charge my parents much more.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have it any other way - I love what I do now and get a lot of job satisfaction (I was a nursery nurse in a school for ten years).
But please don't think all managers make mega-bucks or don't work hard, because it's not true.
Angela Walker, Busy Bees Day Nursery, Whitehaven, Cumbria
