At Gan On The Hill we charge a flat fee per hour. This means you only pay for the hours you do.

Days and hours are completely flexible for parents.

We ask that you do a minimum of 6 hours a week.

​​ Age	​ New fees per hour
​ 0-2	​ £12.50
​ 2-3	​ £12.00
​ 3-4	​ £11.50​

 

All fees must be paid by the second of the month.

Any extra hours that you do are calculated and added to your next month’s invoice. 

There is no reduction of fees in respect of absenteeism, leaving and holidays when enrolled at the nursery. 
 

Meals 

We charge extra for meals and the cost will be added to your monthly bill.  

All meals are home cooked, on site and Kosher. Our kitchen was inspected in May 2025 and received a 5* rating from The Food Standards Agency.

Breakfast £2.00 (8am-8.30am)

Lunch £5.00 (12pm-12.30pm)

Light supper £3.00 (4.30pm-5pm)

We ask parents to bring in a piece of fruit or a vegetable for morning snack time. The children all share their fruit and vegetables.

In the afternoon we provide a snack such as rice cakes, houmous, yogurt etc.

Security 

We have two security guards at Gan On The Hill who are on duty whenever your children are at nursery and accompany nursery trips.

We receive a large Government Grant from CST (Community Security Trust) to pay towards their services. There is a shortfall on the grant and we ask parents to contribute to the shortfall by paying by a Security Levy of £30 per month. This is added to your monthly invoice.

Parents receiving Government Funded hours 

To find out if you’re eligible for Government funding and to apply see here.

Funding is given for children to access standard preschool provision only. As a nursery, we must use it to adequately deliver the EYFS curriculum. This includes things like role play, dolls, cars & trucks, trains & track, puzzles, books, construction bricks, craft supplies, paper & card, glue, paint, pencils & crayons, scissors and enough staff to meet minimum government ratios

When accessing funded hours, we add a charge to your invoice for Activities and Consumables, to cover everything that the funding doesn’t provide for. This includes all the extra experiences we offer within our normal service and it allows us to purchase additional resources & equipment that we can then provide to enable additional experiences.

Examples of what it includes each month: (please note this is just an example and includes much more):

• Afternoon snacks
• Weekly trips
• Staff travel expenses on trips (e.g. bus fare to Jewish Care)
• Challah, candles and grape juice for the Shabbat Party each week
• Gifts, food and resources for festivals (food and decorations for the mock Seder, Purim gifts etc)
• Ingredients for weekly baking sessions
• Lessons with our tutor Wendy Frankel
• Yoga sessions
• Gardening equipment e.g. tools and seeds and soil for the garden
• Gifts (Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Graduation Ceremony gifts etc)
• Events (The Mother’s Day breakfast and Easter Egg Hunt etc)
• Sport classes with Ruchard using specialist equipment (goals and balls)
• Climbing frame, water play, mud kitchen and other equipment in the playground
• Messy play and sensory equipment
• Woodwork equipment and training of staff
• Sensory trays

For children on Government funded hours we invoice for a Consumable and Activity Fee. This is added onto your monthly bill.

• £100 a month for all children on 15 funded hours a week; and
• £200 a month for all children on 30 funded hours a month (from September 2025). 

Parents have the right not to pay the Consumable and Activity fee however it covers all additional activities and expenses to the funding we receive from the Government that only provides basic care.

Quality Voluntary Contribution 

We kindly request parents using Government Funded hours pay a Quality Voluntary Contribution (QVC) each month. Parents are not obliged to pay the QVC (and can pay a partial amount) however as we are a small, independent nursery we rely on parents paying it to be financially viable.

The QVC is as follows:

​​ Age	​ Hours	​ QVC per month
​ 0-2	​15 and 30	​ £0
​ 2-3	​15	​ £50
​ 2-3	​ 30	​ £100
​ 3-4	​15	​ £225
​ 3-4	​ 30	​ £450​

 

Parents on funded hours who go over their 15 or 30 hour funded hour allocation and want additional hours will be charged at our private fee rates (see start of letter for these costs). These additional private hours will be charged if you have used up the entitled funded hours and would like your child to attend more hours or you require an ad-hoc session / or day. 

Tax Free Childcare

Please look at paying your fees via your Tax Free Childcare account as this scheme benefits parents.

For every £8 you pay in, the government will automatically add £2, up to the value of £2,000 per child per year (or £4,000 for disabled children).

To find out your eligibility for this scheme, go to this website. You wont be able to use Tax Free Childcare together with Tax Credits, Universal Credit or Childcare Vouchers.

Once you are confirmed as eligible, you will get an online account.

You can deposit money into your childcare account using a debit card, standing order or bank transfer. The government top up is added automatically and you can use this money when it shows as ‘available’.

To continue to use the Tax-Free Childcare system, you will need to reconfirm your eligibility every 3 months. They will send you a reminder to do this.

Stretched funding

The term “Stretched Funding” refers to how we deliver the funded hours. The government’s funded hours are term time only, meaning you will receive 38 weeks of funding per year. As we are open 45.5 weeks per year, we take your 38-week allocation and stretch it over the 45.5 weeks so that your child can access the nursery through the whole year we are open. This means that your 15 hours term time funding becomes 12.5 hours funding for 45.5 weeks per year. If you do term time only, you will get 15 hours funding per week and only during term time.

What is the criteria for 3- and 4-year-old funding?

All 3- and 4-year-olds can get 15 hours of funded early learning a week until they go into Reception class or reach compulsory school age (the term following their fifth birthday).

Funding is available from the term after your child turns 3.

Born on or between	Terms for eligible funding
1 January to 31 March	Summer term (April onwards)
1 April to 31 August	Autumn term (September onwards)
1 September to 31 December	Autumn term (September onwards)

 

Funding only covers “education” and does not cover certain aspects of the nursery care.

Working families can get up to 30 hours funded childcare for 3- to 4-year-olds.

You can check your eligibility on the childcarechoices.gov.uk website.