THE FOUNDERS SERIES:

1:19 Chris’s earliest childhood memory.

 

4:04 Chris’s family life and working from home.

 

5:45 The Mission of the McGoff Group and how it has evolved over the years. Beginning with his parents starting as a contracting business serving the leisure sector and the journey that led it to becoming more development based.  

 

8:39 Why the McGoff Group decided to add a nursery to the portfolio. Chris and his wife, a trained Montessori teacher always had a personal interest in nurseries/schools. The group built nursery buildings for other companies to operate. One of these relationships was with Jeannie and Stewart Pickering on Kidsunlimited projects. The next step was to become their own operator “properator” to own the property and operate it, joining forces with Jeannie and Stewart.

 

13:47 The mission of the nursery and also the care homes and the philosophy of the design. Why flexible spaces are important. 

 

16:04 The design of the Broadheath nursery and also Lymm and how they are similar/different. The importance of the outdoor spaces and the Tipi and how this is a signature part of the Back To The Garden brand. 

 

18:07 The Partnership with the NHS, beginning with The Grand, a care home in West Bridgford, Nottingham and more recently Bramhall Manor, coined by the press as the ‘Nightingale of the North’. How this supports the NHS by easing demand on hospitals.

 

23:03 How the current COVID-19 crisis has effected the care homes and the nursery. What it means to the group to be helping support the NHS, in the various ways they do, and also the struggles that came with this and how they overcame obstacles through their proactive approach. Why continuity has been so important and how it has made them an even better business and allowed them to evolve all policies. 

 

26:30 The Benefits of Intergenerational care. How the McGoff Group are working to help bridge the gap. Where they first came across the concept. Why Lymm is the perfect place to do it. The mental and physical wellbeing benefits they’ve seen from cross-generational activities with residents at the Sale care home and the nursery children at Broadheath. 

 

32:19 A moving story about one of the care home residents and how the team made his ambition to get back to Old Trafford a reality. 

 

33:41 How the McGoff Group contribute to the planet and the sustainability that comes from being a ‘one-stop shop’. 

 

35:46 What it’s like working in a family business and how this has contributed to their success. Why trust, integrity and family values are important to them and how they’ve created an ‘extended family’ of long standing relationships built over time in the industry. 

 

39:10 Chris’s advice to someone with a vision to build a business. 

 

39:42 What Chris would build for children/the elderly if money/time/logistics were no object.

 

40:29 What universal lesson should be taught to children/the elderly. 

 

41:11 What rights should children and the elderly should both have.

 

41:30 What superpower he would have as a parent.

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41:47 The most important ingredient to running a business.

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42:00 What Chris is most grateful for.