Help paying for your childcare
Government help with childcare costs for parents.
Whether you have toddlers or teens, you could get support.
Various offers are available, including:
- Tax Free Childcare – save 20% on your monthly childcare nursery fees
- 15 hours Universal Funding – for eligible 2 year olds
- 15 hours Universal Funding – for all 3 & 4 year olds
- Additional 15 hours Extended Funding – for eligible 3 & 4 year olds
- Tax Credits for Childcare
- Universal Credit for Childcare
- Support while you study (Care to Learn)
In England, all three- to four-year-olds are entitled to fifteen hours of free childcare each week, while some are eligible for 30 hours. Our nursery offers fee packages for both funded places.
If you are entitled to 15 hours free, your child can still come to nursery for 30 hours, and receive wrap around care. You only pay for hours over and above your funded hours. In the leaflets below, you’ll find out more about who is eligible for 30 hour funded places, and our fees for nursery and wrap around care.
Free Nursery Education
The term after a child’s third birthday your children will be entitled to either 15- or 30-hours education. All children will be offered their entitlement. Subject to availability children may access their funded 15 or 30 hours of early education the term after their third birthday.
Eligibility for Two-Year-Old Funding
Your 2-year-old can get funded childcare if you live in England and get any 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.
- The guaranteed element of Pension
- Credit Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit (or both), and your household income is £16,190 a year or less before tax
- The Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
Funded Two-Year-Old Provision
If you are entitled to up to 15 free hours per week during term-time, you only pay for any hours over and above your funded hours.
OPENING HOURS
49 weeks a year.
We close 1 week at Christmas and 2 weeks in August.
Calendar dates are available in the nursery. We are closed all bank holidays and 3 inset days per year.
- We have limited 30 hours funded free places, 15 universal and 2-year-old funding. Those are available between 8.30am to 3.30pm. Ad - Hoc Top up hours are subject to availability.
- Please be advised that parents of funded children may not be able to access Education Endowment Foundation support elsewhere mid-term.
