15 HOURS / 30 HOURS FUNDING
Honey Pot House Day Nursery will be offering the new working parents 15 and 30 hours funding for children.
Stretched Funding Hours
Understanding the balancing act between work and family, we offer the option to ‘stretch’ your funded hours over up to 51 weeks instead of the standard 38 weeks. This means using fewer hours per week but over a longer period. This flexible approach ensures that your child enjoys a consistent routine while you benefit from a childcare schedule that aligns with your family’s unique lifestyle and commitments.
Government Funding
Provides 15 or 30 (if eligible) hours of support to help parents with their childcare costs
15 Hours of Stretched - Childcare Funding
Traditionally allocated over the 38 weeks of term time, by stretching the funding over a 51-week period, the weekly hours adjust to approximately 11 hours.
30 Hours of Stretched - Childcare Funding
For Working Families
From September 2025, if you’re eligible for 30 hours of childcare funding, you can choose to stretch this for up to 51 weeks. In this case, your weekly hours would be approximately 23 hours. The funding hours will be stretched each term, this may vary term to term.
However, you will receive the full funding hours throughout the year.
Other Information
Our fees are payable all year including all bank holidays, other than 3 days between Christmas Week and the New Year.
To comply with these requirements the nursery will:
• Require you to complete an Early Education Funding Parental/Carer Declaration prior to your child starting an EEF funded place and each term thereafter.
• Require a copy of the EEF funding confirmation letter including the entitlement code.
• Need to be made aware if your child is claiming Early Education Funding at another setting.
• Require seeing a child’s birth certificate or passport.
• Require the Parent’s NI number.
• You will need to reconfirm every three months. Should you fail to renew the code, you will not receive the funding for the following term and normal nursery fees will apply.
We will monitor children’s attendance in the following ways:
What Does Funding Include?
The funding only covers the cost of the provision of childcare and the delivery of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
The funding does not include any of the other services that we provide, for example :
These include, but are not limited to:
We therefore ask parents to pay for these with our ‘consumables charge’ currently £2 during funded hours up to 8 hours and £3 for a full day.
This ensures that the quality of care and service we offer is protected for all our children and parents.
Should you wish to opt out of these, you will be asked to provide these items.
Charges from 1st January to 31st December 2026 for Honey Pot House Day Nursery
The setting is open 7.30 – 6.00 Monday to Friday all year round
Early Years Entitlement Funding. We offer funding term time and/or stretched
(The below table shows that funded hours are free)
Honey Pot House Day Nursery will be offering the new working parents 15 and 30 hours funding for children.
Stretched Funding Hours
Understanding the balancing act between work and family, we offer the option to ‘stretch’ your funded hours over up to 51 weeks instead of the standard 38 weeks. This means using fewer hours per week but over a longer period. This flexible approach ensures that your child enjoys a consistent routine while you benefit from a childcare schedule that aligns with your family’s unique lifestyle and commitments.
- Funding only covers the 38 weeks of term time. As we are open 51 weeks a year, we stretch the funding to cover those weeks.
- Our funding is stretched each term, the hours may vary slightly per term.
- This means you will receive less funding each week and receive cover for the full year.
- Funding hours are unable to be carried to the new term and must be used in the current term.
- We are unable to swap days.
Government Funding
Provides 15 or 30 (if eligible) hours of support to help parents with their childcare costs
15 Hours of Stretched - Childcare Funding
Traditionally allocated over the 38 weeks of term time, by stretching the funding over a 51-week period, the weekly hours adjust to approximately 11 hours.
30 Hours of Stretched - Childcare Funding
For Working Families
From September 2025, if you’re eligible for 30 hours of childcare funding, you can choose to stretch this for up to 51 weeks. In this case, your weekly hours would be approximately 23 hours. The funding hours will be stretched each term, this may vary term to term.
However, you will receive the full funding hours throughout the year.
Other Information
Our fees are payable all year including all bank holidays, other than 3 days between Christmas Week and the New Year.
To comply with these requirements the nursery will:
• Require you to complete an Early Education Funding Parental/Carer Declaration prior to your child starting an EEF funded place and each term thereafter.
• Require a copy of the EEF funding confirmation letter including the entitlement code.
• Need to be made aware if your child is claiming Early Education Funding at another setting.
• Require seeing a child’s birth certificate or passport.
• Require the Parent’s NI number.
• You will need to reconfirm every three months. Should you fail to renew the code, you will not receive the funding for the following term and normal nursery fees will apply.
We will monitor children’s attendance in the following ways:
- We will ask you to contact the nursery to inform us if your child is going to be absent or late and the reasons for this
- We will make every attempt to contact you if the reason for the absence is unknown
- We will record reasons given for the absence, late arrival or early departure on the daily attendance register and monitor its frequency
- We expect that you inform the setting if your child will not be attending due to any reason, such as trips and holidays, etc.
- The nursery reserves the right to change a child’s pattern of attendance giving a minimum of 4 weeks’ notice in writing to the parent/carer.
- Attendance of all children is monitored.
- If there are exceptional circumstances which mean your child’s attendance does not meet the minimum requirements please talk to a member of the Management Team.
- Nursery annual closing dates will be made available to all parents/carers.
- There will be no exchange of Early Education Funded sessions due to the child’s absence bank holidays.
- You can pick up and drop off at any time within your chosen slot.
What Does Funding Include?
The funding only covers the cost of the provision of childcare and the delivery of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
The funding does not include any of the other services that we provide, for example :
These include, but are not limited to:
- Meals and Snacks
- Additional Hours
- Our 18:00 Finish
- Enrichment Activities, i.e. baking and going to the library etc
- Laundry Services
- Toiletries to keep your child clean and comfortable, ie antibacterial products, tissues, paper towels, nappy sacks
- Administration Costs
- Access to our Tapestry App
- All those little extras that make Honey Pot House so special
We therefore ask parents to pay for these with our ‘consumables charge’ currently £2 during funded hours up to 8 hours and £3 for a full day.
This ensures that the quality of care and service we offer is protected for all our children and parents.
Should you wish to opt out of these, you will be asked to provide these items.
Charges from 1st January to 31st December 2026 for Honey Pot House Day Nursery
The setting is open 7.30 – 6.00 Monday to Friday all year round
Early Years Entitlement Funding. We offer funding term time and/or stretched
(The below table shows that funded hours are free)
We try to be flexible as possible whilst maintaining our ratios
We stretch the hours weekly each term, they may vary slightly. The funding stretched hours for Spring Term are 23 hours and 35 minutes per week.
Additional Hours / Sessions
Hours that exceed the weekly entitlement will be charged at an hourly rate as follows:
We stretch the hours weekly each term, they may vary slightly. The funding stretched hours for Spring Term are 23 hours and 35 minutes per week.
Additional Hours / Sessions
Hours that exceed the weekly entitlement will be charged at an hourly rate as follows:
Voluntary Consumable Charges
We make a daily charge of £2.00 per day up to 8 hours per day And £3.00 per day for a full day
The consumable charge will cover services which are not covered by Early Years funding for example, tapestry, cooking activity ingredients, nappy sacks, paper towels, tissues, toilet roll, antibacterial hand soap and all other resources we use to support your child in the setting.
Additional Activities / Trips – Voluntary Charges
We ask for a charge for these activities for children that attend on that day. Participation is optional and children who do not participate in optional activities will continue to receive provision that complies with the EYFS.
We only charge for day trips away.
French lessons/dance class are up to £3.50 per week and is directly payable to the company.
We charge 50% fees to keep your space during the holidays should you wish to send your child term time only.
Above is all the detail about how the government expects us to implement funded places. We have a good working relationship with Solihull MBC and are able to help parents with funding where we can, but the funding is administered by local government and we are constrained by their policies and procedures. We realise that there is a lot of information above and it can be a bit confusing, so please contact the nursery if you need further clarification
You can find further information and details on how to apply for funding using the Best Start In Life website (formally known as Childcare Choices) Best Start in Life – Best Start in Life
All nursery spaces are subject to availability and fill very quickly, so we recommend you place your enquiry for a personal tour as early as possible, to ensure you get the sessions and start date you require.
Please contact us today so we can best support and advise on any questions you may have.
We make a daily charge of £2.00 per day up to 8 hours per day And £3.00 per day for a full day
The consumable charge will cover services which are not covered by Early Years funding for example, tapestry, cooking activity ingredients, nappy sacks, paper towels, tissues, toilet roll, antibacterial hand soap and all other resources we use to support your child in the setting.
Additional Activities / Trips – Voluntary Charges
We ask for a charge for these activities for children that attend on that day. Participation is optional and children who do not participate in optional activities will continue to receive provision that complies with the EYFS.
We only charge for day trips away.
French lessons/dance class are up to £3.50 per week and is directly payable to the company.
We charge 50% fees to keep your space during the holidays should you wish to send your child term time only.
Above is all the detail about how the government expects us to implement funded places. We have a good working relationship with Solihull MBC and are able to help parents with funding where we can, but the funding is administered by local government and we are constrained by their policies and procedures. We realise that there is a lot of information above and it can be a bit confusing, so please contact the nursery if you need further clarification
You can find further information and details on how to apply for funding using the Best Start In Life website (formally known as Childcare Choices) Best Start in Life – Best Start in Life
All nursery spaces are subject to availability and fill very quickly, so we recommend you place your enquiry for a personal tour as early as possible, to ensure you get the sessions and start date you require.
Please contact us today so we can best support and advise on any questions you may have.