Application Form

PLEASE NOTE: CURRENTLY WE CAN ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM FAMILIES RESIDING IN POTTON OR SURROUNDING HAMLETS/VILLAGES WITH NO EARLY YEARS PROVISION.

Following your initial enquiry, you will be asked to complete an application form.  Once we have received your completed form, we will contact you to discuss space availability and arrange a tour of the setting. Following your tour, if you would like to secure a place with us, you will be asked to pay the £15.00 registration fee.

We will next be in touch, providing you have paid the registration fee and attended a tour of the setting with your child, towards the end of the term before your child is due to start with us to confirm start date and arrange a home visit.

We accept Local Authority funding for eligible two, three and four year olds. Children can start with us the term after they turn 2 years old.  Admissions are in September, January and April,  we are also registered to accept up to 30 hours extended funding if we have the sessions available.  

Session Fees - 2023/2024

AM Session (8.45am to 11.45am) - £16.32

PM Session (12.30pm to 3.30pm) - £16.32

Lunch Club (11.45am to 12.30pm) - £3.72

Contribution Fee - 2023/2024

The funding we receive is unfortunately insufficient to cover all of our costs therefore we charge a £3.15 contribution fee per funded session.  This money is spent on consumables such as additional snack, outside activity groups, malleable materials, cooking ingredients and will go towards covering the cost of all other activities and resources we use to support your children in setting.   Please see below for how the contribution fee is charged:

Pre-School Funded AM Session - £3.15 per session

Pre-School Funed PM Session - £3.15 per session

Pre-School Funded Full Day - £6.30 per day

Why do settings need to charge a contribution fee?

https://www.eyalliance.org.uk/problem-free-childcare-interactive-explainer-parents-and-carers