CocoRio’s Core: Corinna and Léa’s story!
CocoRio - Smart childcare that creates confidence and promotes creativity. Connect with engaging and inspiring creative nannies and mentors - musicians, dancers, actors - who will foster curiosity and a love for learning, providing your children with a safe space to explore new experiences through creativity.
Why CocoRio?
The world keeps evolving, but through this, childcare is devolving. In an era of screens and media, the true nature of childhood is being stripped from children—a childhood of creativity, curiosity, and communication. At CocoRio, smart, creative childcare is not a luxury; it is essential.
“Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more.”
– Loris Malaguzzi
The Who Behind CocoRio - Corinna and Léa
At CocoRio, our name holds the story of who we are and why we do what we do. ‘Coco’ is short for Corinna, one of our co-founders. It represents our wonderful creatives - our artists, musicians, actors, storytellers and much more. Those that inspire joy and imagination in the lives of children. Just as our creative nannies hold a passion for what they do, so do our founders.
‘Rio’ is the name of Léa’s firstborn child, and it symbolises every child that CocoRio aims to inspire. It stands for the wonder, potential, and future of the next generation - the very future that CocoRio wishes to positively influence through creative childcare.
“We knew there was a way to combine artistic passion with purpose - to reimagine what childcare could look like. CocoRio started with a name, a baby and a bold idea... and it’s grown into something beautiful.” - Léa
Co-founders Corinna and Léa
The Vision into Reality
The beginnings of CocoRio began with two hard-working university students. Léa, a music student looking for a part-time job, strayed away from the conventional path of retail and instead found a passion in babysitting. She found joy in taking care of, teaching and entertaining the young generation. But she didn’t let her love for music go to waste; instead, she used music in her childcare. She would write songs with the children and entertain them with the use of art.
Then in came Corinna. Léa and Corinna met and became friends. Through their many conversations, they realised they were doing very similar things with their childcare. Corinna, who was also a student at the time, was similarly using creativity in her babysitting job. This sparked an idea in their minds... Together, they started with around 10 clients between them and began their business model of creative childcare.
This organic, values-led beginning still defines CocoRio today. It’s a simple idea rooted in genuine care—but one that’s proving to be essential for raising confident, curious, and well-rounded children.
CocoRio’s Values
We NURTURE future generations
We LIVE CREATIVELY, champion sustainability, celebrate diversity and empower you to do the same
We are COMPETENT and CONSISTENT in offering families and our creative talent the very best
We are HONEST and HELPFUL, ensuring everyone receives the care they deserve
CocoRio’s Principles
Peace of mind: We prioritise children’s physical and emotional safety for the family’s peace of mind through our thorough vetting and recruitment process.
Effective and fun creative learning: We nurture your child’s creativity through unstructured, play-based learning while supporting emotional wellbeing, confidence.
Skills for life: Our creative nannies and mentors foster curiosity, confidence, and independence through playful, relationship-based learning beyond home and school.
Personalised experience: We celebrate every child’s uniqueness by offering a diverse pool of creative nannies and mentors tailored to your family's needs, setting us apart from traditional London nanny agencies.
Full flexibility: We bring enriching, creative childcare straight to your home with no matching fees. Our artist-nannies love flexible work as much as you do, and our easy-to-use platform makes booking effortless.