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See your estimated cost
Enter a birth month, funding choice and at least one session to see an estimate.
How this estimate works
- Age band is based on your child’s birth month and the current month; exact birthday changes are confirmed by the team.
- The estimate allocates your selected funding to Playmates. Funding uses a standard 51-week pattern: 11 hours weekly for the 15-hour entitlement, or 22 hours for the 30-hour entitlement. Where eligible for the full year, 9 or 18 remaining annual hours are agreed separately.
- This estimate places funding across your selected weekdays, mornings first, then afternoons. Your actual funded pattern and availability are agreed with the nursery.
- Fully private days use the published full-day price. Whole paid morning or afternoon sessions use their session price. Partly funded sessions use the unfunded proportion of that session price, with full-day childcare capped at its private tariff.
- Voluntary food is included only if you select it and have indicated either 15 or 30 hours of funding. Food contributions apply only to fully funded morning or afternoon blocks; no extra food is added to partly paid blocks.
- The monthly equivalent is the weekly amount × 51 ÷ 12, not four weeks. It assumes an unchanged weekly booking and current age-band price. Actual invoices may differ as age bands or arrangements change.
- Eligibility, annual funding balance, availability and final charges are confirmed in your nursery agreement. No Tax-Free Childcare or other benefit has been deducted.
Your selections will move to the enquiry form in this browser tab. Nothing is sent to the nursery until you submit the enquiry form.