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Our Fees

Children hand painting - Applepips Day Nursery

The nursery offers a wide choice of childcare options to fit around the needs of busy parents.  Parents can choose from a combination of Full Day, School Day, Morning or Afternoon and you can book for full year (48 weeks) or term time only.  We also offer a limited number of shift pattern spaces to meet the needs of parents who need a little more flexibility.

All fees are due to be paid a month in advance. Once a child has been booked into the nursery fees will be due on the 1st of every month.  This payment needs to be made by balance transfer or childcare vouchers. Depending on how each parent chooses to make their payments they need to make sure the balance is cleared by the 1st of each month. A £20 holding fee is required to secure a place, this is returned upon uptake of a nursery place.

We offer funding for children ages 9 months and over this depends on eligibility. 
6 months to 3 year olds:
6 months to 3 year olds: (Scroll Sideways to see more of this table)
3 to 5 year olds:
3 to 5 year olds: (Scroll Sideways to see more of this table)

All Meals and nappies are included within full sessional prices.  Meals can be an additional extra for children in receipt of 2, 3 and 4 year free entitlement funding.

Meals:
Meals: (Scroll Sideways to see more of this table)
We offer funding for children aged from 9 months, depending on eligibility this is up to 30 hours per week. Hours can be used term time only or we offer funding stretched over the year. 
Additional sessions can be booked outside of funding, these are charged a full current sessional rate. 
Further information of funding and eligibility on can be found on the childcare choices website. 

We accept payment via tax free childcare. Tax free childcare is a government initiative to support working parents with the cost of childcare. By setting up a tax free childcare account could save you up to 20% off your childcare fees. For further information can be found by visiting the childcare choices website CLICK HERE

We accept payment via childcare vouchers and currently registered with several schemes, should you wish to use your childcare vouchers please let us know to make sure we can get registered before you start with us.

A 5% discount is offered for children who take up full time places (School days and term time places are not considered full time places). In addition, the nursery offers a reduced fee if your second child and subsequent children are also enrolled with us. If both children attend 2 days (4 sessions) with us you will receive a 5% discount. If both children attend more than 4 sessions a week a 10% discount is applied.

The sibling discount is only applied to the oldest child’s fees and will be clearly shown on all invoices. Discounts are only applied to permanent sessions booked, and only applies to care hours. (Funded hours and meals are not included).