Fees and Funding

Fees and Funding

Fees and funding can be quite daunting and hard to understand. We’re here to make it easier for you.

Wivenhoe Park Day Nursery is an approved childcare setting, which means that we are registered to accept government funded childcare spaces – https://www.gov.uk/get-childcare

We have no top up/additional costs added on to session fees. We believe in removing barriers to accessing funded hours, so there are no hidden fees or unnecessary costs that you can expect in our invoice. All children can benefit from rich early educational experiences and government funded sessions can be used for any session, subject to availability. Nursery fees are reduced for students at Wivenhoe Park Day Nursery and are very competitive.

Check entitlement here. Best Start In Life is an incredibly useful website which details all the help available to parents and student parents. This enables a range of circumstances to be entered, to check entitlement to the different types of financial support available to you, through free funded hours, grants, allowances, and tax relief.

The Day Nursery administrators are also on hand to offer further advice, just call us on 01206 873224 or email nursery@essex.ac.uk.

Fees and Funding

Nursery Fees 1st August 2025 – 31st July 2026