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Pilke Daycare Centres is a growing company that provides versatile services to Finnish families. We strive to provide children with a good day, every day.
We partner with Finnish municipalities in early childhood education and families’ home services, family work and intensified family work. In addition, we serve family-friendly companies that provide childcare services as employee benefits. We fulfil families’ needs to enable a balanced everyday life to children and adults.
Many tasty sandwiches.
Sweet daydreams – as long as the sleep lasts.
Plenty of outdoor activities, come rain or shine.
An endless amount of play.
A mountain of lost mittens and odd socks…
and
… a million happy hugs!
= 365 good days a year
At Pilke’s heart are its good day makers – over 2,500 professionals in early childhood education, childcare, social and healthcare as well as other fields that support our work. Their aim is to provide children with a good day, every day. At Pilke, we know that the setting for a good day is created by providing children with opportunities to learn, explore, ask questions, play and grow in the presence of safe and reliable adults.
Pilke is a growing company whose operations span across Finland. Our services include early childhood and pre-school education, after-school club activities as well as childcare and social welfare services for families.Pilke Daycare Centres was established in 2012 through the merger of two longstanding private daycare companies Kissankulman Muksut and Parasta pienelle. In the past few years, other significant milestones in the Pilke story include the extension of activities to childcare services and social services’ open care functions. Pilke keeps on growing while maintaining its earlier operations.
The turnover of Pilke kindergartens in 2020 was approximately EUR 87 million, and it employs more than 2,500 people in Finland. In the summer of 2020, the main owner of Pilkke became the Norwegian family business of early childhood education, Dibber, read more here.
Pilke provides innovative early childhood education services in 180 private daycare centres and pre-schools around Finland. Our early childhood education and pre-school instruction are highly versatile, and we provide the opportunity to choose from various learning orientations. Pilke units’ orientations include languages, science, nature, sports, music as well as art and expression. Our activities comply with the same objectives, quality standards and educational requirements as those of municipal daycares and pre-schools.
Read more about the pedagogy and early childhood education at Pilke’s daycare centres and pre-schools. You will also find tips for families whose child starts at daycare.
Our after-school clubs are aimed at young school children, usually first and second graders. The after-school clubs are typically organised in the school premises so that the children can attend the club right after the school day. Our after-school clubs provide children’s days with balance and stability, realising their right to free-time, rest, play and care. Pilke has after-school clubs in 29 schools in Espoo, Vantaa, Pori, Hämeenkyrö, Helsinki, Kirkkonummi and Porvoo.
Pilke’s family services increase the wellbeing of families and facilitate their daily lives in various life situations – even the most challenging ones. Our family services collaborate closely with municipal social services’ open care functions: home services for families, family work and intensified family work. Pilke’s reliable and experienced family workers facilitate changes to everyday life, enable small wonders and provide flickers of light to our client families.
Versatile, innovative, active, warm-hearted… We take care of children with a twinkle in the eye. We are not only an everyday estrade of family life but also a quality-conscious and responsible actor that reforms and develops the early education sector.
Pilke’s values explain how we perform our work and for whom. We implement our values through everyday activities while playing, learning, dressing waterproof dungarees, searching for lost mittens or giving a warm hug. Our values are safety, tolerance, positive attitude, participation and innovativeness – read more about our values..
We are driven by the aspiration to reform early childhood and pre-primary education, after-school activities, childcare and family services. We engage in the reform work through various everyday innovations, such as flexible one-stop shopping bag services or a variety of new childcare services designed to support remote work.
“Dibber and Pilke share Nordic ideas of early childhood education and pedagogy as well as common values that cherish high-quality early childhood education and the child’s interests.”
Contacts with Pilkke’s management and office:
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Contacts and contact information for kindergartens, afternoon clubs, childcare and family services:
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Childcare contact information ➔
Contact information for family services ➔
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