Admissions

Secure your child’s place on our waiting list
Young England Kindergarten, Pimlico

Registration

Please complete and return our REGISTRATION FORM via email, along with the registration fee. Email: henry@youngenglandkindergarten.co.uk. This will ensure a place on our waiting list. A place offer will be sent one year before your child’s start date.

Please feel free to use our ‘Enquire Now’ tab for any queries. Spaces are limited and we operate on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.

Fees

Please see HERE for our current 2025/26 fee structure. Fees are reviewed annually.

Deposit

In common with most other nursery schools, we charge a deposit when you accept a place for your child.

The deposit is currently £2,000 and is payable when we confirm a place for your child. Places are offered one year before they are due to start. The deposit, which is strictly non-refundable, is deducted from the fees for your child’s last term.

All term fees are payable in advance. A full term’s notice of withdrawal must be given in writing, otherwise, one term’s fee will be charged. Please see our cancellation notice and form HERE.

We offer four Government Funding Schemes:

  • Universal Entitlement Funding for 3 & 4 year olds (15 hrs per week)

Funding is available to all parents from the term after their child’s 3rd birthday.

  • Extended 30 hr Funding for 3 & 4 year olds (30 hours per week)

Available to families the term after a child turns 3 years old. Subject to eligibility criteria.

Families will need to apply for this scheme via the Government website Best Start in Life. HMRC assesses eligibility depending on work information and income levels. Subject to meeting the eligibility criteria, a parent is given a code which they submit to YEK.

Families need to apply for the code the term before they wish to receive funding.

  • Working Family Entitlement Funding for 2 year olds (30 hrs per week)

Available to families the term after a child turns 2 years old. Subject to eligibility criteria.

Families will need to apply for this scheme via the Government website Best Start in Life. HMRC assesses eligibility depending on work information and income levels. Subject to meeting the eligibility criteria, a parent is given a code which they submit to YEK.

Families need to apply for the code the term before they wish to receive funding.

  • Busy 2s Funding (15 hrs per week)

Available to families the term after a child turns 2 years old. This scheme is subject to eligibility criteria.

*Funding amounts vary according to the length of each term.

Funding Applications

All funding schemes require a signed and completed parental declaration and proof of your child’s date of birth. YEK submits an application to our Local Authority on your behalf – funding is then paid directly to YEK. Schemes 2 & 3, above, require an eligibility code that is obtained by parents and generated by HMRC. This code needs to be re-verified every 3 months for continued access to funding. Scheme 4 requires a voucher code directly from your Local Authority.

Delivery

Funded hours are available between 8.45 am to 3.30 pm, depending on your child’s session (e.g. Caterpillar or Butterfly) offered across 33 weeks of the academic year.

Parents may request a place that uses only the funded entitlement, subject to limited availability and the nursery’s ability to offer these places if it is financially sustainable to do so.

Additional Hours and the Nursery Services & Consumables Package

The government funding rates are currently set at £7.67 per hour for 3–4-year-olds and £10.87 per hour for Busy2s and Working Family 2-year-olds. These rates do not cover the true cost of delivering the high-quality care and education we provide. In particular, they do not cover food, additional hours, consumables, curriculum enrichment, or the wider services that families value at YEK, including highly qualified nursery teachers. In common with most nurseries, we will ask parents to pay for these so we can continue to provide the very best care and experiences.

Families accessing funded hours are asked to contribute towards our Nursery Services & Consumables Package, shown as an ‘Extras and Essentials’ charge on termly invoices. This contribution will be itemised as a termly charge.

What the package covers:

  • Snacks
  • Additional hours
  • Consumables (e.g. nappies, wipes, sun cream, school materials)
  • Teaching materials and classroom resources
  • Enrichment activities (e.g. yoga, music, drama, sports, languages)
  • Outings and workshops
  • Administration and operational costs
  • Please refer to the Fee Structure for a full termly breakdown of the current rates for Nursery Services & Consumables Package, which includes additional hours and enrichment activities.

If a parent is unable or unwilling to pay, we ask that they speak with the School Business Manager to discuss options. Please note that non-payment has both an operational and financial impact on the nursery and without contributions, we cannot sustain the level of service and experiences that distinguish our provision.

Please see HERE for our funding policy.

Please contact the School Business Manager for all fees and billing enquiries: henry@youngenglandkindergarten.co.uk

 

We accept childcare voucher payments and are signed up with a number of providers, including the Government’s Tax Free Childcare Scheme. This is subject to eligibility criteria. For every £8 you pay into this account, the government will pay in £2. You can get up to £500 every 3 months (up to £2,000 a year) for each of your children. This goes up to £1,000 every 3 months if a child is disabled (up to £4,000 a year).
 
We also participate in Enjoy Benefit’s Workplace Nursery Scheme. The Workplace nursery benefit saves parents who use a nursery setting, tax and national insurance on all of their nursery fees from birth up to school age. The amount they can save is uncapped, unlike tax-free childcare. As an example: if a parent at your nursery pays £1700 a month in fees, they can save up to £2000 maximum a year (per child) with TFC. By using the Workplace Nursery Benefit they would save up to £7089.