Our founders, Victoria Griffin and Donnie Maclean realised very quickly that they had a lot in common, had shared values, cared about people, and were passionate about making a difference in this world. These shared values have become the foundation of Nurtura Group.
With each bringing many years of successful and award-winning entrepreneurship in their own right, they realised that their potential synergy could be substantially more powerful.
Bringing carefully selected, values-led organisations into the group means that we can achieve ever greater accomplishments and enrich more lives, further strengthen communities, and create lasting value that goes far beyond commercial success.
Victoria Griffin
Co-Founder, Nurtura Group
Business Growth Strategist | Education & Behaviour Specialist
As a founding partner of Nurtura Group, I work with business owners across education, health and social care to help them scale strategically and grow sustainably.
Our mission is to unlock the full potential of small and mid-sized businesses by bringing them into a collaborative ecosystem where they can access the resources, partnerships, and strategic guidance they need to thrive.
With a background that bridges entrepreneurship, education, and commercial leadership, I bring a unique, people-centred approach to business development. From improving internal structures and leadership capacity to helping owners think bigger about their markets, I support business leaders through every stage of growth.
My career began with launching an Outdoor Adventure Education business that
helped young offenders build resilience and confidence in the wilds of the North York
Moors.
From there, I trained as a teacher, gained leadership experience with Marks and Spencer PLC, and went on to build three successful adventure centres delivering leadership programmes to organisations such as Sony, British Airways, and many City Councils I was honoured to consult for the London 2012 Olympics on access and inclusion in sport and the outdoors.
Today, I remain passionate about creating positive change—whether in schools as a senior pastoral leader, or in business as a mentor and strategist. My work in education spans some of the most challenging and diverse environments in the UK, from inner-city London to rural coastal schools.
Donnie Maclean
Co-Founder, Nurtura Group
Award-winning Innovator | Business Acquisition
As a founding partner of Nurtura Group, I focus on the business acquisition and the integration of new businesses into the group.
We have two entries into the group, and we agree the best route with each prospective member. Either the owners:
1) Sell their business to the group, and keep a small percentage of their business, so that they can achieve an exit, but still enjoy a source of income from the bigger group once they have transitioned their business into the group; or
2) The owners sell around 20% of their business to the group, in order to join into, and benefit from, the collective momentum.
I've been in business for more than 25 years, and in that time built businesses for others, as well as building my own business (www.eatbalanced.com), which supplies healthier foods into education and healthcare, using a "health by stealth" principle. Since 2012, Eat Balanced have successfully improved the nutrition of millions of school pupils across the UK.
During my career, I have also been a senior government advisor, reporting into a Cabinet Secretary, and I was on the Board of Directors of the national food & drink industry body for seven years.
Today, I remain passionate about creating positive change — continuing to run Eat Balanced, and also helping those business owners coming towards the end of their careers to ensure that they can exit their business successfully, and retire happily (selltoretire.co.uk).
At Nurtura Group, we believe in collective success.
We bring like-minded businesses
together to share knowledge, build scale, unlock new opportunities, and achieve growth that would be hard to reach alone.
We’re not just about scaling businesses—we’re about building strong, values-led leaders who want to make a difference.
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