Our Fees

2025/2026 Pre-School Fees

We accept both 15 hours and 30 hours government funding towards the cost of your child's sessions and accept childcare vouchers.

For those parents wishing to pay for additional sessions, our fees can be found below.

Morning Session: 9:00 - 12:00pm

£26.50

Afternoon Session: 12:00pm – 3:00pm

£26.50

Full Day: 9:00 - 3:00pm (x2 sessions) *

£53.00

*Children attending a full day will be required to bring a healthy, packed lunch from home.

We offer an enhanced curriculum at Lovel End Nursery and do charge a one-off fee of £150 for these extra curricular activites. More information on this and our snacks and consumables charge can be found here.

In addition, we ask for a contribution of £1.80 per session towards the cost of snacks and consumables. Children are provided with fresh fruit and healthy snacks both morning and afternoon along with fresh milk and water.

Fee Changes

Our fees are reviewed each Spring term by the committee for the following academic year. We will be transparent with our fee structure during the admissions process. If in extenuating circumstances, the committee decide that we have to increase fees for reasons beyond our control, parents will always be given a minimum of one month's notice of this.

Funding

The Nursery is registered with Ofsted, the Buckinghamshire Early Years Childcare & Education Partnership and we are members of the Early Years Alliance as well as being a registered charity. We are a term-time provider (38 weeks) and open from 9:00am - 3:00pm.

We accept government funding of both 15 hours and 30 hours towards the cost of a nursery place for children aged 3 & 4 years old. In order to claim 30 hours funding, we will need a valid eligibility code.

The minimum number of sessions accepted is 5 per week (15 hours).

Please visit the Best Start in Life website for more information on funding, eligibility criteria and FAQs

Please note: Funding can be used at more than one setting, however if a child will also attend, or remain with a stretched provider, only one setting can make a claim for the universal or expanded hours. It is not possible for both a term time and a stretched provider to claim from the same 15 hours allowance. The Best Start in Life website, or the Early Years Funding team will be able to provide additional support if required.

From September 2025, 15 hours for eligible working families will expand to 30 hours, meaning eligible working parents can now apply for 30 hours of childcare from the term after their child turns 9 months, until they start school.