Would you think this company CF's?

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There is a nursery and out of school company in my town who have announced they are running their summer holiday club in the community centre (an old school) this year. They're calling themselves Town-name Central School Playscheme, despite the fact they've always been XX OOSC Holiday Club.

However, this space they have hired has only become available because a long-established group called Town-name Central Playscheme have moved from that building into the primary school building.

The long-established group are a small, majority volunteer led group, who are low cost (£15 a week this year for 3 hours per day) and who recently got an outstanding OFSTED.

I've just been sent a link to the newly named group's advert and I'm wondering a) if there's anything we can do and b) how best we make sure that people don't think the £65 per day (full days admittedly) thing is nothing to do with us.

Is the ad in the local paper? If so ask them to run an article about your group stating (your group) wishes to make clear they they are not affiliated or connected in any way to (their group) and that summer sessions will still be running as usual at the rate of £x as usual. Also I would post this in your group so media or set up a FB page to stage this and share it to local village town pages or selling sites

State not stage

Yeah it was in the local paper. I might see if they'll come and do a "yay, well done them" story on the inspection report with a summer advert. To put an advert in costs £65, which is pennies to them, but a lot to us.

We're running Easter and they aren't so I'll do lots of leaflets advertising summer and post it on FB.

It's just so bloody cheeky. There's no need either - there's a dire lack of childcare and things for kids to do so we're both always full. In fact, I expected them to run in the building they always used AND the one we left, They could afford that set up as they move kit around between their nursery/OOSC building and their holiday club hall anyway.

They are blatantly trying to nick your customers but I assumed you wouldn't have the money for your organisation to take any legal action. It is called passing off.

oh very cheeky indeed

Can Trading Standards get involved over misrepresentation (or not, because they are a childcare facility)?
Is the established small group still using their name?

allthebest

We certainly wouldn't have any money for anything legal. Any funding we get from CIN or the lottery is for specific things. The only unallocated money would be registration fees which pays for snacks/drinks, and they know that...

A parent queried something on their FB page and after their answer they rather took them to task so they've posted quite a big "We didn't mean to confuse people" post. They've also put that clarification on their website (I think the person might have been a lawyer as they asked them a couple of questions with specific wording - not one of our parents I don't know them). Apparently they thought we'd folded (which is bullshit).

I've posted on our FB page clarifying that we've only moved and that there's no link and we'll still be £15 a week. We've also added a little bit to our leaflets (thankfully they don't get printed until tomorrow!) to hand out over Easter and to go into schools pre-summer.

breakfast We are, we've just moved into the school building.

You need to get friends posting on their FB page, linking to your original holiday scheme.
I would speak to Trading Standards for advice