fees and pricing
nursery fees
We are completely transparent about our fees and on this page you will find all details of all of our costs with no hidden fees.
Administration and Waterproof Fee
To enrol your child at our Pre-School we ask for an up front charge of £100. Included in this price is a brand new high quality and durable waterproof outerwear. You will receive this along with your new starter information prior to your child starting with us.
Little Foxes Stoke Park
Mini Foxes Fees (2.5-3 years)
Our daily rate from April 2025 is £58.70 per day for our core five hour session 9:30am - 2:30pm. This includes a morning drink and snack, a home-cooked lunch with dessert and a range of enrichment activities and trips. Find out more about our food here. You can sign up for two, three or four days.
Little Foxes Fees (3-4 years)
Our daily rate from April 2025 is £52.50 per day for a five hour session 9:30am - 2:30pm. This includes a morning drink and snack, a home-cooked lunch with dessert and a range of enrichment activities and trips. Find out more about our food here. You can sign up for two, three or four days.
Wraparound care
We offer wraparound care Monday to Wednesday 8am to 5:30pm and Thursday 8am - 4pm. We’ll have a high ratio of qualified staff on hand to care for your children, and a range of outdoor and indoor activities.
Breakfast Club
Children will have the opportunity to enjoy a breakfast of toast, cereal and fresh fruit. We'll be on hand to welcome your child into play before getting them dressed and ready for their forest adventures.
8am - 9:30am: £13.50.
Tea Club
Your child will be able to engage in more traditional nursery activities at our Little Foxes base after school club. A tea will be served consisting of food such as jacket potato, pasta, sandwiches, wraps, crudities, fruit and pudding. Monday to Wednesday fees for
2:30pm – 5:30pm: £26. Thursday tea club fees until 4pm: £13.
Westbury Little Foxes
Little Foxes Fees (2.5-4 years)
Our Westbury setting offers 26 hours a week at Little Foxes Monday to Thursday 8am - 2:30pm. From April 2025 the daily 6.5 hour sessions cost £68. This includes breakfast, all snacks, drinks, lunch and a range of enrichment activities and trips. We also accept government funding, childcare vouchers and payments from the tax free childcare account.
If you use your government funded hours for your place, there is a daily food and consumables charge of £19 per day.
HELP WITH FEES
If you live in England you can get:
● 15 hours a week if your child is 3 to 4 years old
If you are working you can get:
● 15 hours a week if your child is 9 months to 2 years old
● 30 hours a week if your child is 3 to 4 years old
3 year olds
Universal government funded childcare is for three, four and five year olds. This is 15 hours a week based on a term-time year (38 weeks). The funding comes into effect from the term after your child’s third birthday and runs until they reach compulsory school age.
To find out more about your entitlement click here.
The funding can also be split with other settings, provided that the other setting is happy with the arrangement.
Eligible 2 year olds
You may be able to claim for 15 funded hours from the government if you are in receipt of any of the following benefits:
● Income Support
● Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
● Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
● Universal Credit, and your household income is £15,400 a year or less after tax, not including benefit payments
● the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
● Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit (or both), and your household income is £16,190 a year or less before tax
● The Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
In this instance you need to apply through the local authority. If you do qualify, please contact finance@littlefoxesforest.co.uk to let us know as you will be entitled to a further reduction in fees. Here is the link to Bristol's eligibility checker:
Please note that there is a compulsory consumables charge to be paid in addition to using these funded hours, to cover all food, drinks, trips and enrichment for your child's time at Little Foxes.
Consumables charges
These cover all food, drink, trips and enrichment experiences. Costs are:
- £14 a day for Little Foxes
- £18.50 a day Mini Foxes
- £4.50 for Breakfast club
- £8 for after school tea club Monday to Wednesday.
- £4 for Thursday's tea club that finishes at 4pm.
working parents
Working parents of three, four and five year old children can apply for an additional 15 hours per week during term time, making a total of 30 hours. To check if you are eligible for the government free hours you can click on this link and follow the steps
Apply for 30 hours funding for three year olds
Working parents of two year olds can currently claim a total of 15 hours per week, increasing to 30 hours in September 2025.
Apply for two year old working parent funding
If you are eligible for either of these of hours you will have to sign up online via the links provided. You will get a code, which you will share with us as your registered childcare provider. We will send you out a form from a company called funding loop to gather this information from you. We then apply for the funding on your behalf and reduce your bill accordingly.
Tax Free Child Care
Little Foxes Forest School is registered to receive Child Tax Free Childcare as payment for your nursery fees.
If you are entitled to Tax-Free Childcare, you’ll set up an online childcare account for your child. For every £8 you pay into this account, the government will pay in £2 to use to pay your provider.
You can get Tax-Free Childcare at the same time as the 15 and 30 hours free childcare if you’re eligible for both.
You can get up to £500 every 3 months (up to £2,000 a year) for each of your children to help with the costs of childcare.
This goes up to £1,000 every 3 months if a child is disabled (up to £4,000 a year).
Please click on the link below and follow the steps to find out if you are eligible:
UNIVERSAL CREDIT
If you pay for childcare while you go to work, Universal Credit can pay some of your childcare costs. You can get up to 85% of childcare costs paid back to you.
The Maximum amount a month is:
● £1,014.63 for one child
● £1,739.37 for two or more children