Please visit the individual nursery page to download the fee sheet.
The nursery day runs from 8am – 6pm Monday - Friday. We ask parents to collect children within these hours, there is a charge levied for late pick-ups. All of our nurseries are open 51 weeks of the year, closing for a week during the Christmas period.
Please note that we only offer full days as a permanent booking. Children must attend a minimum of 2 days per week. If only attending 2 days, one day must be either a Monday or Friday. Term time only is not available.
All fees are due, and payable, one full month in advance. Fees are payable even if your child is not attending nursery due to sickness or holidays.
We provide an all-inclusive service for your child where all meals, nappies, wipes, formula milk and extracurricular classes are included in our fees. For those in receipt of government funding, these are included as part of the Consumables Charge.
There is a one-off non-refundable application fee for all applications (including to join the waiting list). To secure your space, if and when one becomes available, we require a refundable deposit.
We offer a 5% sibling discount whilst no siblings are in receipt of government funding. The discount will be applied to the sibling with the lowest fees.
At Ladybird, we believe high quality childcare should be available to everyone, which is why we offer a number of funding options for our parents and carers. We offer all streams of government funding for children aged 9 months to 4 years. See our FAQs below for more information.
Also known as universal funding, all children over the age of 3 are entitled to 15 hours a week of funded childcare regardless of your employment status and how much you earn.
Available to children aged 3–4, this is an additional 15 hours of funded childcare in addition to the universal funding, meaning that your child is eligible to 30 funded hours per week. To find out whether you might be eligible for this, please click here.
From the term following a child turns 9 months, some working parents can get 30 hours a week of funded childcare. Please click here to find out if you might be eligible.
Eligibility for funded childcare starts the term after your child turns nine months, 2, or 3. Their birthday must fall on or before the cut-off date in order to receive the funding the following term.
These dates are:
- 31st August for the Autumn Term (September – December)
- 31st December for the Spring Term (January – March)
- 31st March for the Summer Term (April –August)
Funding is calculated on a 38-week year. Ladybird operates over 51 weeks of the year, and so your funding will be stretched to cover the 51 weeks. This works out at 11 hours a week for 15 hour funding, and 22 hours a week for 30 hour funding.
Fees may be paid using Tax Free Childcare, whereby the government will contribute £2 for every £8 of child care costs. This enables you to claim up to £2000 per annum, effectively giving you basic-rate tax back on what you pay. To access Tax Free Childcare and to find out if you are eligible, please click here and navigate to the ‘Tax Free Childcare’ section.
Yes, we accept childcare vouchers from various voucher providers, and we are also able to register with an additional scheme if we are not already registered.
It is your responsibility to obtain your funding eligibility code and provide it to us in good time ahead of the local authority funding term dates. If you did not provide the Nursery with this code, then we are unable to claim funding and you will therefore be charged the standard nursery fees.