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Opening Times, Fees & Funding

Opening Times and Fees: Service

Opening Times

Monday - Friday

7.30am until 6pm
Sessions available 

8am - 6pm, 8am - 1pm, 8am - 4pm, 

or 1pm - 6pm

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Open 50 weeks of the year.​​

Fees

3 months - 3 years

Our fees are set at £8.25 per hour from April 2025 and this is reviewed annually in line with our fees policy.​

3 years - 5 years

Our fees are set at £8.00 per hour from April 2025 and this is reviewed annually in line with our fees policy.

Funding

We accept 30 hours funding for children from 9 months of age.

Funding can be used for any hours between 8am - 6pm. 

We stretch funding across the year offering 22.8 hours per week.

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Please ask for more details

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Early Start

We offer an early start session from 7:30 - 8am.

Cost of this session is £5

Invoicing

We invoice monthly in advance.

Payments to be received by 2nd of the month.

We except payments through BACS, Tax Free Childcare or Cash. 

Hours

All children are required to attend a minimum of 20 hours per week

Opening Times and Fees: Service

Funding

Working Parent Funding

Working parents with children aged 9months to 4 years may be eligible to receive funding for their child, (eligibility is mainly based on working hours and income.)

Funding comes into effect the term after your child turns 9 months old.

Funding terms are as follows:

1st January - 31st March,

1st April - 31st August,

1st September - 31st December

Funding is currently set at 15 hours per week, per child up to the term after your child turns 3 years old, when it increases to 30 hours week.

From September 2025 this will increase to 30 hours funding for all eligible children, from the term after they turn 9 months old.

Parents must apply for the funding online and provide the Nursery with their funding code.

Once you have your funding code you will be required to reconfirm your eligibility every 3 months online.

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For more information, to check your eligibility and to apply please click the link below.

Universal 3 & 4 Year Old Funding

All three and four year olds are entitled to 15 hours’ funding through the government’s Nursery Education Grant.

Funding becomes available at the start of the term following your child’s third birthday.

The nursery takes care of the administration for the grant (you do not need to apply for it) and a form will be produced for you to sign 3 times a year.
If you have any questions regarding the fees or how the funding works, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

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2 Year Olds

Better 2gether Funding

Some two year olds are entitled to funding through the Nursery Education Grant, which Wiltshire Council have named “Better 2gether Funding”. This funding is not universal and has a eligibility criteria.

Families will often receive a letter from Wiltshire Council informing them of their eligibility.

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Parents need to apply for this funding (in a different way than the working parent funding process.)

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To see if you are eligible and to apply for the funding, please click the link below.​​

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Tax Free Childcare

You can get up to £500 every 3 months (£2000 a year) for each of your children to help with the costs of childcare. 

If you get Tax-Free Childcare, the Government will pay £2.00 for every £8.00 you pay your childcare provider. This is paid via an online childcare account that you set up for your child.

You can get Tax-Free Childcare at the same time as the 15 or 30 hours free childcare if you are eligible for both.

You will be unable to get Tax-Free Childcare at the same time as claiming Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Universal Credit or childcare vouchers. 

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Parents need to apply for tax free childcare.

To see if you are eligible and to apply, please click the link below.

Kitchener Rd, Amesbury, Salisbury SP4 7AX (England)

01980 677 025

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