Funding & Fees
Registration Fee
A non-refundable registration fee of £100 is required to secure your child's place.*
This fee includes your child's Dottie Tots backpack, an embroidered sleep blanket for children under two, a uniform top for children aged two and above, and a bamboo toothbrush.
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Fees & Discounts
Our fees are calculated at £8.64 per hour for our sessions. We provide the option for flexible booking patterns including ad-hoc hours as needed. Breakfast, healthy morning, and afternoon snacks are all included.
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For full-time placements, we offer a 7.5% discount. Additionally, there is a 10% sibling discount, deducted from the eldest child's hours when both children attend together. Please note that discounts apply to standard booking patterns and are not valid for extra hours. A 10% military discount is also available at our Kingsley location. All discounts are calculated monthly, with only one discount applicable per family at a time.
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Early Years Education Funding - Universal Hours
We offer ‘Stretched’ funded sessions for 51 weeks of the year, and are open for 51 weeks of the year at our Bentley, Kingsley and Churt nurseries. You can access a maximum of 11 funded hours over 51 weeks of the year with a balance of 9 hours which can be booked in addition to your regular pattern. This makes up the total of 570 hours which are available.​
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Please note that our Crondall nursery is a term time only provision, where we provide a standard offer of 15 funded hours per week over 38 weeks of the year.
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Early Years Education Funding - Extended Hours (30 hours)
We offer 30 hours funded places, which are stretched over 51 weeks of the year. You can access a maximum of 22 funded hours over 51 weeks of the year with a balance of 18 hours which can be booked in addition to your regular pattern.
This makes up the total of 1140 hours currently available for those who are eligible for extended hours (also known as 30 hours funding).
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Please note that our Crondall nursery is a term time only provision, where we provide a standard extended offer of 30 hours per week over 38 weeks of the year.
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Please note that we ask for a small hourly fee of £1.50 for funded hours to cover snacks, consumables and other activities that we provide and that are outside of the basic provision that we receive funding for.
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Two Year Old Funding
We offer funded places for eligible Two Year olds, who meet a specific criteria.
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Term Time Only Places
We also provide term-time only places for children aged 3 and 4, subject to availability.
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Tax Free Childcare Scheme
We welcome payments from the government's Tax-Free Childcare scheme. We also accept childcare vouchers from various providers and employers, helping to lower your childcare expenses. For further details, please contact our nursery administrator at hello@dottietots.co.uk.
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Payment of Fees and Notice
Fees should be paid monthly in advance. Parents will receive invoices around the 25th of each month, and payment is due within 7 working days from the issue date of the invoice. Fees remain applicable even if children are absent, sick, or on holiday during our operating hours. Late payment charges may be imposed. To cancel their child's place, parents need to provide written notice via email to hello@dottietots.co.uk, giving at least 6 weeks' notice.
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*Registration fee is not applicable to those children who are solely accessing free entitlement hours only OR for those who are eligible for two year old funding, who meet a specific criteria
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