Terms and conditions effective from 1st September 2025

Fees – All fees are due in advance and payable by the 1st of

the month. Nursery fees are payable for 51 weeks of the year, which includes bank holiday closures.  

Our closure over the Christmas period 2025 is as follows;

– We will close at 12:30pm on Christmas eve and be closed on 25th , 26th December; the bank holidays, 29th ,30th 31st December – (these three dates will not be chargeable).  1st January Bank Holiday and 2nd January.

We will open back up as usual on Monday 5th January 2026. 

– We close for a maximum of two days per year, for staff training which will be          non-chargeable. This will be communicated out to you with at least one calendar months’ notice of the closed date.

– Fees are still payable should your child be poorly or on holiday.

– One month’s notice of leaving is required.

– Children attending term time only (not using funded sessions) a 50% retainer will be charged throughout the holidays, where your child can still attend for 50% of their sessions.

Allocation of Places  – Places are allocated on the following basis:
Siblings of existing children; Waiting List children; First come, first served.

Snacks, Lunch & Refreshment – Breakfast, hot lunch, mid-morning and afternoon snacks, high tea and refreshments are included within the daily fees. Parents may supply packed lunches if they prefer but no reduction in fees are offered.

Additional Hours – Where additional hours are required these may be booked from £9.31 per hour unless otherwise priced within the ‘Schedule of Fees’. A minimum of one hour is charged except where there are ½ hourly rates.

Late Collection/Non-booked hours – Where you are late in collecting your child from any session and you have not pre-booked additional hours. All parents/carers will be given a 5-minute grace period on late collection of their child. If your child still has not been collected five minutes after their session has ended, then a £10 charge will be levied and for every 10 minutes thereafter. This is in conjunction with our ‘late collection and non-collection policy’.

Invoicing – Invoices are produced each month based on these prices. All invoices are emailed to parents or printed off at parents request. It is your responsibility to inform us if an invoice has not been received. Late payment charges will still be applied if payment is not on time, irrespective whether you have received an invoice or not.

Late Fees Charge  –All fees are due by the 1st of the month.  Where fees are not received in cash or in our account by this date a Late Payment Charge of £35 per child per month will be applied. We pursue any debts with a strict policy that may result in exclusion if payments are not made on time.

Terms and conditions for Funded sessions effective from September 2025

We offer 9month -24month funding, 2years-3years funding and 3years-5years funding.

Fixed Times         /       Fixed Rate

7:30am-5:30pm             £15.75

9am-3pm                        £9.98

7:30am12:30pm            £9.03

12:30pm-5:30pm          £7.88

Registration Fees – £50 per Nursery child. If you are using funded hours only, with no additional hours, your child’s registration fee will be credited to your first month’s invoice. However, if you do require additional hours, the £50 registration fee will apply and not be credited to your first month’s invoice (Please see page 2 ‘Registration Fee’).

Funding Entitlement – Funding covers sessions in Term Time Only, this is covered for 38 weeks of the year. Please see below our funded weeks. We do not offer stretched funding. If you wish for your child to attend all year round then page 1 Schedule of fees will apply on non-term dates.

Fixed Times – Our hours are set as above for funded hours, no hours can be ‘banked’ and used on separate days or swapped for an additional day.

Opt-in – All snacks, drinks, homemade hot lunches, tea, nappies, wipes and suncream are included in the above prices with our ‘Opt-in’ option. This also includes all resources used within the nursery. For an extensive list please refer to our ‘Funding options letter’

Invoicing – All fees are due in advance and payable by the 1st of the month. All invoices are emailed to parents or printed off at parents request. It is your responsibility to inform us if an invoice has not been received. Late payment charges will still be applied if payment is not on time, irrespective whether you have received an invoice or not.

Late Fees Charge – All fees are due by the 1st of the month. Where fees are not received in cash or in our account by this date a Late Payment Charge of £35 per child per month will be applied. We pursue any debts with a strict policy that may result in exclusion if payments are not made on time.

Additional Hours – Where additional hours are required these may be booked from £9.31 per hour unless otherwise priced within the Schedule of Fees. A minimum of 1 hour is charged except where there are ½ hourly rates.

Late Collection/Non-booked hours – Where you are late in collecting your child from any session and you have not pre-booked additional hours. All parents/ carers will be given a 5 minute grace period on late collection of their child. If your child still has not been collected five minutes after their session has ended, then a £10 charge will be levied and for every 10 minutes thereafter. This is in conjunction with our ‘late collection and non-collection policy’.  

Funded weeks will be:

Autumn term 1 – September 1st – October 24th (8 weeks) 

Autumn term 2 – November 3rd – 19th December (7 weeks) 

Spring term 1 – January 5th – February 13th (6 weeks) 

Spring term 2 – February 23rd – March 27th (5 weeks)

Summer term 1 – April 13th – May 22nd (6 weeks) 

Summer term 2 – June 1st – July 14th (6 weeks)

Please note – for term time only, funded children our inset days are:
5th September 15th July 16th July, 17th July and 20th July