A co-working and childcare business is raising £1.5m to fund its first three permanent venues, with plans to roll out 25 settings by 2030.

The Working Mums Club, which offers mothers access to nursery care, flexible co-working, wellbeing facilities and local support, is set to launch its first permanent site in Southeast London in November 2025.

The Deptford venue includes a Montessori-inspired nursery, a co-working space with phone booths and meeting rooms, a wellbeing café, on-site yoga and expert-led parenting workshops.

While the current co-working space is female-only, The Working Mums Club said fathers would be encouraged to be involved with the nursery.

The company intends to monitor member feedback and may be open to welcoming dads to future co-working spaces.

Flexible membership options range from £65 for a three-hour session to £1,100 per month for a two-day-a-week childcare and co-working package.

The company has qualified for advance assurance from the Government’s Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, which offers tax relief to individual investors who buy new shares in a company, and has already raised £750,000 from friends and family to support its first phase of growth.

The Deptford site is the first of 25 planned locations by 2030, with the second venue scheduled to open in early 2026 and five additional launches planned each year.

Founder Jennifer Sutcliffe said The Working Mums Club addressed a ‘long-overlooked gap in the UK’s childcare and employment ecosystem’.

“Childcare should enable mothers to work – not block them from it,” she said.

“I created The Working Mums Club because I couldn’t find a space that supported both my career and my parenting reality. So we built it – and now we’re scaling to meet nationwide demand.”