Fees & Funding
We offer wide range of sessions for your child(ren) that suits majority of the Parents/carers. You can extend your sessions with us by giving us a week notice in advance. We are very flexible in offering you suitable times and days. Unlike other nurseries, we do not have any compulsory minimum days to book.
Our normal hours of opening are 8am – 6pm. We open our nursery for the parents from 7:30 am with an extra charge.
Fees
Registration fee non-refundable – £40 for all the children.
One month’s deposit needed that is refundable upon leaving.
0-2 years fee
2-3 years fee
3-5 years fee
Funding
15 hours free early education and childcare for 2 years old
If you are entitled for 15 hours of free early year education, you can choose to do 3hrs each day per week, 7.5 hours per day for two days or 5hours per day for 3 days. You can also add paid extra hours or days with your free entitlement too. The fee will be charged accordingly.
For the children who are only attending government funded hours there an applied charge for breakfast/lunch/tea.
9 Months Funding
9 Months Funding is a program that provide up to 15 hours of free of funding childcare for working parents of children aged 9 months and older. To apply you can obtain a reference code from HMRC. HMRC would need to be reissue every three months. It must be valid before the funding period begin and after it’s end. The funding will start from the term after they turn 9 months old.
For 2 year-olds
15 Hours Free Childcare
For families with 2-year-old children, you may be able to take up 15 hours of free childcare, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria. Please ensure that you have received your Eligibility Code, from the Local Authority, before notifying the nursery of your entitlement to 2-year-old funding.
For 3 & 4 year-olds
15 Hours Free Childcare
30 Hours Free Childcare
Depending on your circumstances, your family may access Extended Funding, which provides an additional 15 hours of funding per week, making 30 hours of Free Childcare per week.
Can I get a free place for my child?
You can get free childcare if you live in England and get one of the following benefits:
- Income Support
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Universal Credit, and your household income is £15,400 a year or less after tax, not including benefit payments
- tax credits, and your household income is £16,190 a year or less before tax
- the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
- the Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
Can also get free childcare if they:
- are looked after by a local authority
- they have a child protection plan
- have a statement of special education needs (SEN) or an education, health and care (EHC) plan
- get Disability Living Allowance
have left care under an adoption order, special guardianship order or a child arrangements order
To check the eligibility please use online eligibility checker below or call 0203 373 0980. Alternatively contact your local children’s centre.
For further information please click on the link below:
15 hours of free education for 3-5 years
All the children are entitled for 15 hours of free childcare from the term after their third birthday. Your child is entitled for 38 weeks per year of free education.
Our nursery offers different sessions and timings that suits you and your child(ren). You can choose to do 3hrs each day per week, 7.5 hours per day for two days or 5hours per day for 3 days. You can also choose to do paid extra hours or days with your free entitlement too. The fee will be charged accordingly.
30 hours free early education and childcare for 3-5 years old
30 hours is a childcare scheme designed to help working parents with their childcare costs, as well as helping many others parents get back into work.
Our nursery offers flexible sessions for 30hours free early education. Parents/carer can spread their 30 hours throughout the week according to their requirement (subject to availability).
When to apply for 30 hours free early education
You can apply from when your child is 2 years and 36 weeks old.
| When your child turns 3 | When they can get 30 hours from | Recommended time to apply |
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1 September to 31 December |
1 September to 31 December Term starting on or after 1 January 15 October to 30 November |
15 October to 30 November
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1 January to 31 March
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Term starting on or after 1 April
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15 January to 28 February |
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1 April to 31 August
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Term starting on or after 1 September |
1 April to 31 August Term starting on or after 1 September 15 June to 31 July |
You can apply outside of these recommended dates but you might not receive your code in time. You must have a valid code by the end of the month before a new term starts.
You have to reconfirm your eligibility every 3 months. If you apply more than 3 months before the term starts, you’ll have to reconfirm your eligibility in your account in order to keep your code valid.
For further information, please click below the link:
https://www.gov.uk/apply-30-hours-free-childcare
9 months funding for babies – (LINK Coming soon)
Childcare costs
Universal Credit
You may be able to claim up to 85 per cent of your childcare costs if you’re eligible for Universal Credit and meet some additional conditions. The amounts you can receive in childcare costs are: a maximum of £646.35 per month for one child a maximum of £1108.04 per month for 2 or more children. For further information, please click on the link below:
Tax free childcare
For working families, including the self-employed. If you receive Tax-Free Childcare, the government will pay £2 for every £8 you pay your childcare provider. This is paid via an online childcare account that you set up for your child.
You can get Tax-Free Childcare at the same time as 30 hours free childcare if you’re eligible for both. For further information, please see the link below:
Childcare vouchers
We accept childcare vouchers as part or full payment of your child’s nursery costs. Childcare Vouchers is a scheme some employers offer to help working parents save on registered childcare costs. If you have joined one of these schemes on or before 4 October 2018 you should be able to keep getting vouchers or directly contracted childcare.
The following schemes are closed to new applicants:
- childcare vouchers
- childcare your employer arranges with a provider
Other benefits within our setting
Sibling discount
The older sibling will receive a 10 percent discount in their fee if both the children are attending the same session within the nursery.
Open throughout the year
We are open throughout the year and are only closed on bank holidays, four inset days (training days) annually and one week for the Christmas holidays.
Term time contract without any hidden charges
We offer term time contracts to teachers and other professionals who work only during the term time. We do not charge them for any half-term holidays.
Wrap around care
We provide wrap around care for children from 5-8 years. We run a breakfast club and after school club. In breakfast club, children are given breakfast which consists of cereal, toast, bread, milk or a drink. and then drop them to their respective schools. In our afterschool club we pick children up from their schools and offer them tea-time snacks (such as sandwiches, soup and bread, fishcakes with salad and pancakes with fruit etc.) and parents/carers collect their child(ren) up from the nursery itself. Children also have the opportunity to take part in wide range of activities during their time at the nursery and we do read with them and help them with their homework/schoolwork.
We provide wrap around care for children in the following schools:
- Francis School
- Colegrave School
- Maryland School
- Downsell School
- Chobham Academy