First Steps fully inclusive Fees and charges
Our fees include all food, drinks and snacks, freshly cooked onsite by our Nursery cook, taking into account individual dietary needs and allergies. We provide Little Angel nappies and wipes within our fees.
Your monthly fees are calculated on application and are due on or before your child’s first day at nursery. Your first month will be calendar monthly for the sessions attended, then subsequent fees will be at the fixed monthly fee for your sessions booked.
Monthly fees are calculated over the full year (52 weeks of the year, including Bank Holidays & Christmas Closure) and divided into 12 equal monthly with payments to be paid by Direct Debit (GoCardless) on the last day of the month in advance for the following month. We accept Tax Free Childcare payments towards your fees and also accept debit or credit cards and cash payments for any extra sessions booked.
For example, one full day a week will have a monthly charge of £306.37 which includes everything, so no extra charges for food, early or late starts etc.
We will give you your personal fee quote based on the number of sessions you require including any Early Education Funding discount, when you have your tour of the Nursery.
Once you are eligible for the government 2-, 3- and 4-year-old funding, the fees charged are for the additional services and consumables that the government funding does not cover. Please note that the government only funds during term time so your fees will be calculated over the full year taking this into account.
From the term after child’s 3rd birthday - full day daycare all year round.
Example 30 hours stretched funding monthly fee
3 days a week booking (22 stretched hours)
Total charge for 3 days = £31.50 x 3 = £94.50 p/w
X 51 weeks / 12 month’s = £401.63
Term Time Only Pre-school 9-4 (9-12/1-4)
Up to 15 hours funding per week = £40 per month for half day sessions including fruit snacks and consumables, or £60 per month for full days to include fruit snack, food and consumables.
Up to 30 hours funding per week = £120 per month to include all consumables including a hot lunch and fruit snacks.
Book a tour and get your personal fee quote from our management team.
Have you ever wondered why childcare is so expensive?
A typical childcare setting will have huge overheads, such as rent/mortgage, utility costs. equipment costs, resources, business rates, salaries, training, professional licences and memberships, catering costs and more. As with everything at the moment those costs are rising, and therefore so are childcare fees.
In most nurseries the payroll is very high, due to the adult to child ratio needed, as well as rising minimum wages that push all the salaries higher, and increased pension contributions. At First Steps we employ a team of highly qualified childcare professionals who deserve to be paid above the minimum wage threshold. First Steps strives to provide the highest standards of childcare and education and is a privately owned company that must be sustainable and reasonably profitable to be commercially viable.