Getting help towards the cost of your childcare has now become so much easier. The Government have a fantastic website about funding Best Start in Life
Here you will find all the Government Childcare Offers and you can navigate to the help that is best for you. There is so much financial help now for children the term after they are 9 months old. From September 2025, working families will be able to claim up to 30 hours term time or 22 hours stretched across the year.
We aim to be as fully flexible as possible with all our families to help meet the needs of our families busy lives.
We welcome you to come and have a chat and find out more about how funding will work for you and how we can help ease your return to work and navigate through childcare costs. There is also a childcare support checker to help you find out how you can save money on your childcare.
We do have a Voluntary Consumable Charge which is added to all Government Funded ‘Free Entitlement’ sessions. This is to help towards the cost of food, non food consumables and activity charges throughout the year such as our Nature Steps outdoor programme. You have the choice to opt out of this, but you would then have to provide your own consumables and we would make a separate charge for the Nature Steps sessions and special activity days.
The costs for our consumables from April 2026 are per half day session, 50p for food, 25p for non food and 50p for activities including Nature Steps. Therefore it is £1.25 per half day and £2.50 per full day.
