{"id":7086,"date":"2021-10-14T16:46:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:44:50","slug":"washable-nappies-a-sustainable-future-for-childcare-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/2021\/10\/14\/washable-nappies-a-sustainable-future-for-childcare-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Washable Nappies: A Sustainable Future for Childcare Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very excited to announce that GECCO will be hosting the\u00a0<strong>Washable Nappies: A Sustainable Future for Childcare<\/strong>\u00a0conference, running\u00a0<strong>5th\u00a0November 2021<\/strong>. We consider this to be a brilliant opportunity to explore, share and discover how reusable nappies can, and do, benefit both our children and our natural world and to discuss the practicalities of using them in Early Years settings.<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Hadland, founder of GECCO and Managing Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topsdaynurseries.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tops Day Nurseries<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspiretrainingteam.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspire Training Team<\/a>, will be hosting the day starting at 10am, accompanied by a series of speakers presenting on the topic of washable nappies in early years settings, from a variety of viewpoints (natural world&#8217;s, financially, the practicalities). The conference is aimed at childcare providers, who are interested in using washable nappies within their setting or are curious to find out more around this approach.<\/p>\n<p>GECCO will also be holding a \u201cfireside chat\u201d session during the day with Tops Day Nurseries nursery managers who have been trialling washable nappies within their settings, to discuss what has and hasn\u2019t worked for them, offering first-hand feedback; these sessions will be an open forum for questions.<\/p>\n<p>Guest speakers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elisabeth Whitebread \u2013 Head of Purpose at Bambino Mio and Head of Political &amp; Public Affairs at the Nappy Alliance<\/li>\n<li>Louise Lloyd-Evans \u2013 Managing Director of Young Friends Nature Nursery &amp; Founder of SNAP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets cost \u00a35 and allow the delegate to attend\u00a0<strong>all sessions<\/strong>\u00a0throughout the day, as well as\u00a0<strong>unlimited access<\/strong> to recordings of the sessions for three months post-event. Tickets are available to purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/washable-nappies-a-sustainable-future-for-childcare-tickets-142228263565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very excited to announce that GECCO will be hosting the\u00a0Washable Nappies: A Sustainable Future for Childcare\u00a0conference, running\u00a05th\u00a0November 2021. We consider this to be a brilliant opportunity to explore, share and discover how reusable nappies can, and do, benefit both our children and our natural world and to discuss the practicalities of using them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-sustainability","category-nappies-toilet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13280,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/13280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}