Fees and Funding

Stowey Bears offers both local authority and privately funded places. Our current fee structure is detailed below.

Your fees contribute to a wide range of services, including:

Personalised care and supervision of your child.
Morning and afternoon snacks, and supervised lunch.
A diverse selection of toys, educational resources, and craft materials.
Engaging activities within and beyond our setting.
Regular updates and progress reports via Tapestry.
High-visibility vests for outings.
Comprehensive childcare and safety measures, including first aid provisions

Fees and Funding

Funded Hours:

We are registered with our Local Authority to provide the 15/30 hours free funding sessions for children aged 9 months, 2, 3 or 4. We have separate policy where we discuss in details how the 15/30 hours are delivered.

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Invoice and Payment:

Invoices for the upcoming half-term will be issued at the end of the current half-term. Payment is due within the first two weeks of the new half-term. If you anticipate any payment difficulties, please contact our Business Manager, Tina Miller, at 01278 734636 or stoweybearspreschool@outlook.com.

Funding and Additional Fees:

Government funding can be applied to all morning and afternoon sessions, a lunch session supervision fee of £2.50 per session applied, this can be included in funded hours if all hours are not already claimed, as we do a flat rate fee for lunch half hours we will endevour to use all your funded hours on full sessions before charging you for any extra and ultimately the lunch fees will be the first 2.5 hours a week (full time) that will be chargeable to parents.Please note that this fee covers supervision costs only, and does not include food.

Additionally, a daily "Snack and Consumables" fee is charged, this is classed as a voluntary fee and no child will be excluded if not paid, however this fee helps us keep costs lower for parents that cannot access Working families funding and have to pay for more sessions and helps us to spend any profits on new resources and essential training for staff members, the cost of this charge is £1 per day for snack & £1 per day for Consumables, these fees are only charged on the days your child atends

If you do want to opt out you need to let us know in writing and provide 2 healthy snacks per day per child attending