Fees

FROM THE AUTUMN TERM 2024, UNFUNDED SESSIONS WILL BE

CHARGED AT £6.52 PER HOUR FOR 3 & 4 YEAR OLDS AND £7.22

PER HOUR FOR 2 YEAR OLDS

 

Funded hours will be offered between

8:30am and 4:00pm (Monday to Wednesday)

8:30am and 3:00pm (Thursday and Friday)

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Charges:

Breakfast Club: £4.25 per session

After Preschool Club 2: £8.50 per session

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Optional Additional Charges:

Early Start: £2.84
Morning Session: £1.00

Day Session: £2.00

After Preschool Club 1: £5.10

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Optional charges cover the cost of breakfast, snacks and enhancing preschool

provisions such as Forest School that are not covered by funding. More

information is available in our Fees & Funding Agreement Policy.

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Unfunded sessions including optional charges:

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Morning Session: £23.82 (3 & 4 year olds) £26.27 (2 year olds)

Day Session: £41.12 (3 & 4 year olds) £45.32 (2 year olds)

Day & After Preschool Club 1 & 2: £61.24 (3 & 4 year old) 

You will need to provide your child with a packed lunch for all sessions. 

 

For details regarding invoices or payment plans please email: 

info@charminsterpreschool.co.uk

All children qualify for Free Early Education Funding from the term after 

their 3rd birthday. Please see our Funding section for more details. 

 

Childcare Vouchers

We currently accept vouchers from the following organisations:

• care-4

• Computershare (formerly Busy Bees)

• Sodexo Motivation Solutions (formerly Sodexo Pass)

• Edenred (formerly Accor)

• Imagine Co-op (Midcounties Co-op)

• Fideliti 

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Funding

 

All children qualify for Free Early Education Funding from the term after their 3rd birthday.

Funding for 3-4 year olds
 

Fees have to be paid for every session attended until the term after the child’s third birthday, after which the government in the form of Free Early Education Funding pays for up to 15 hours per week. Eligible working families are entitles to claim up to 30 hours of week of free early education funding. Click here for information on eligibility.

 

Your child will need to be:

 

• 3 years old by 31st August to qualify for funding for the Autumn term.

• 3 years old by 31st December to qualify for funding for the Spring term.

• 3 years old by 31st March to qualify for funding for the Summer term.

 

Funding for 2 year olds

 

You may be eligible for 2 year old funding if you receive benefits or are eligible for the new funding for working

families. 

To see if you are eligible please visit www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/

To check eligibility and apply for free early education for children aged two years in Dorset please click here.