Joy and David Scadden are the Directors of Sunny Days. They run three nurseries – in Dorchester, Weymouth, and Bridport – serving families of West Dorset.

Joy and David are business people with experience in providing child care services. They are a local family living in Weymouth. David attended local schools and started his career with Weymouth and Portland Social Services in 1971 registering, supporting, and developing local playgroups and nurseries.He went on to develop a successful social work career involving launching and running several childcare centres. Joy, a French and Sociology graduate originally from Portsmouth, has spent all her life involved in family business. Since working within child care Joy has focussed on the ‘people’ side of the business, building a symbiotic career in training. Together Joy and David have also started and grown several businesses including a wine bar and restaurant, a florist retail business, and a chain of children’s homes that involved property development and service delivery in a highly competitive and regulated industry, and more recently nurseries.