Legal cash blow for Bowes pre-school

A DALE pre-school has been hit with a financial blow after staff were told there is no lease for the land it was built on.
Bowes Pre-school opened next to Bowes Hutchinson’s Primary School in 2009. It was built on the school grounds, which belong to the Trustees of Hutchinson Endowed School.
Staff have been informed that a formal lease was never drawn up with the charitable trust. As a result, the preschool now has to foot a £1,000 legal bill to get a lease drawn up.
Pre-school manager Samantha Webb said: “It is going to be about £1,000.
“It is not masses but to us it is. We are going to have to
find the money via fundraising.”
A spring fair will be held at the pre-school on Saturday, May 6, from 11am until 2pm.
Ms Webb said: “We are hoping to have a really good
day.
“Usually the money we raise would help buy new resources or pay to take the children out on a trip but unfortunately it is going to have to pay solicitor fees. It’s a bit of a knockback really.”
A spokesman from GF White, which is working on behalf of the trust, confirmed that a meeting with the trustees is being arranged.