Fees

FROM THE AUTUMN TERM 2025, UNFUNDED SESSIONS WILL BE

CHARGED AT £6.84 PER HOUR FOR 3 & 4 YEAR OLDS AND £7.58

PER HOUR FOR 2 YEAR OLDS

 

Funded hours will be offered between

8:30am and 3:00pm (Monday to Friday)

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Charges:

After Preschool Club 3:00 - 4:00pm (Monday to Wednesday)

£10.50 per session

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Optional Additional Charges:

Early Start: £1.50
Morning Session: £1.50

Day Session: £3.00

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

provisions such as Forest School, trips and special occasions that are not covered

by funding. More information is available in our Fees & Funding Agreement Policy.

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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.beststartinlife.gov.uk/

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