Fees
Please contact the Nursery for up to date Nursery fees and pricing.
Funding
We accept the Working Families Funding, including 9-23 months Working Families, Two years Working Families and the 3-4 Extended Entitlement. We also accept Play 2 Learn Funding and 15 hours 3-4 Universal Funding.
For more information on funding and how to apply please visit;Homepage | Best Start in Life
Supplemental charges/ Additional services – Parent/Carer Agreement 2025
All children on funding from aged 3 and one term, will be charged a supplement charge per session to cover meals, snacks, wipes, art activities, cooking activities, parent workshops, Phonics Stars, Lingotots, AW Football Coaching, Jo Jingles and local outings including weekly Forest School Sessions and weekly litter picking sessions. We also offer experiences such as Incredible eggs, Zoolab, Nursery parties and events where all children can attend. This ensures that all children get to experience all parts of nursery life as we are an inclusive full day care setting.
The New supplement charge will be £2.75 per hour. This is worked out on a weekly basis, for example a child attending 15 hours per week term time only would pay £30.25 per week, term time only. If your child is attending on the 30 hours funding term time only your weekly charge would be £60.51 per week term time only.
You will be invoiced for your supplement charges each month and the charges will be shown broken down into the weekly charge and will be shown on your invoice which will also show your free entitlement. This can be paid, as with our monthly fees, by the 26th of each month, for the month ahead. Alternatively these can be paid in cash to the office, bank transfer or tax-free childcare, , on a weekly basis every Monday morning, but it must always be paid the week upfront.
Some families may be entitled to Early Years Pupil Premium which can be used towards this cost for children’s experiences/ activities at Nursery but you must check with the Manager that this can be claimed for your child. This can only be claimed per term so please be aware that you may not be eligible every term as this is means tested.
We understand that peoples financial positions can change unexpectedly. Should you find that you are unable to pay the supplement charge for any reason, please come to the office to discuss this with a member of the management team as soon as possible. Non-payment of the supplement charge will not jeopardise your child’s place in nursery, as your funding will continue to cover the cost of your child’s free place and the charge is not a condition of taking up a free place . However, in this instance, we may need to charge individually for any optional extra-curricular activities, workshops/sessions your child takes part in, to ensure that costs are covered and we can continue to run these for everyone, throughout the nursery.
I have attached our Supplement policy below for your information.
Please do not hesitate to contact a member of the management team, should you have any questions or require further information.
Supplement Charge Policy
The Early Years Entitlement funding is intended to deliver free, high quality, flexible childcare. It is not intended to pay for the costs of meals, drinks, snacks, other consumables such as resources, extra hours or additional activities.
Where the Government funding is intended to cover the cost to deliver 15 or 30 hours per week or on the stretched offer, for which our monthly fees are based on of free high quality, flexible early education, it is not intended to cover the cost of meals, consumables, additional hours or additional services, to cover these additional costs a supplemental charge of £2.75 per hour is asked to be paid for; this will be clear on your monthly invoice. As a full day care setting we cannot offer many funded hours only sessions and these are mainly taken up by our 2 year offer families, although there is some availability left open to new parents.
As we aim to be a flexible setting children accessing Nursery Education Grant Funding only, for which we have minimal spaces will be charged this consumable charge of £2.75 per hour.
This charge is waived for parents / carers in receipt of the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP). As an alternative to the hourly charge, we would therefore encourage parents/carers who are in receipt of benefits or whose children have been in care or adopted from care to apply for the Early Years Pupil Premium, where we can use this to support your child.
Any hours that fall outside of the funded entitlement are charged in line with our standard fees.
Under scheme rules, parents / carers registering for Early Years Entitlement-only sessions are not required to pay a deposit however a deposit will be required to access all other sessions. Early Years Entitlement sessions are offered in line with the Department of Education and Local Authority’s Codes of Practice and are subject to their terms and conditions.
Please note that it is the parent’s responsibility to ensure that their application for Early Years Entitlement funding is made in line with the Local Authority’s requirements and termly funding forms completed and returned to the Nursery. Late, incomplete, or invalid applications may result in nursery fees being charged at our normal rates for these sessions.
If you are in receipt of 15/30 hours it is the parents responsibility to firstly make the application before the end of term deadline for the following term and to refresh your code in line with HMRC and the local authority guidelines.
Parents are required to complete, sign and update their funding form on a termly basis, without this form we will be unable to claim any entitlement for your child.
The supplement charge covers many activities at the nursery and these include, but are not limited to;
Extra Curriculum activities, Meals, snacks, drinks, wipes, nappies and pull ups, spare clothes, Clubs and local outings, Cooking activities, Art activities, Parent Workshops, stay and play sessions and Sun cream, Phonics Stars, Lingotots, AW Football Coaching, Jo Jingles and local outings including weekly Forest School Sessions and weekly litter picking sessions. We also offer experiences such as Incredible eggs, Zoolab, nursery parties and events where all children can attend.