Please see below our new funding and session model. In operation from April 2025 & September 2025

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From 1^st April 2025

- Our new fees will be:

- Early Bee £5 per session. Late Bee £10 per session.

- Three- and four-year-olds £7.40 per hour.

- Two-year-olds up to three-years £8.00 per hour.

- Under Two-years-olds £12.50 per hour.

- Our termly fee of £60 - will now be voluntary and a monthly amount at £15.*

- Our £25 registration fee - This will now be voluntary and clearly marked on your invoice to reflect this.

- We will now be invoicing monthly, instead of termly. We will be issuing invoices on the 1^st of each month which will need to be paid the end of the month.

 *As the word voluntary suggests, parents are not obliged to pay but we strongly request that you do so to allow us to deliver an outstanding quality provision for our children. This voluntary contribution covers our enhanced provision and extra experiences, such as:

·        Day trips such as outings in the community/ train/bus journeys.

·        Dance, yoga, forest school equipment, tuff tray resources.

·        Extra staff cover for taking children to Plumpton Primary school as part of the ‘Transition to School’ experience.

·        Healthy snacks which include fruits, vegetables, carbohydrates and proteins.

·        Twice-weekly cooking activities.

If you wish to opt out of this voluntary contribution, we are fine with this but please let us know so that we can itemise the above on your invoice.

·        For example, if your child does not take part in yoga, dance or transition to school activities (which Honeybees pay for these services or provides an additional member of staff to supervise) we will obviously not be charging you. However, if your child does take part in these activities there will be a breakdown on your invoice which you will have to pay.

·        Another example is that if you do not want your child to have access to the Honeybees snack, this is absolutely fine, and you can choose to bring in your child’s healthy snack in a named container.  However, if you forget to do this, you will be charged a small amount to cover the cost of snack, and this will be clearly itemised on your invoice.

·        If you do not wish your child to take part in any of the above activities, again this is fine, we will continue to ensure that your child is offered an educational alternative.

‍Changes to our hours offered from September 2025:

·        We will only be offering daily sessions of 8.30am-3.30pm and no sessional hours.

·        For working families of children from twelve months old and upwards entitled to 30 hours, Honeybees will be offering our families up to the maximum of 28 hours to use here. (For example, four full days).

·        Families in receipt of 15 hours we will be offering up to the maximum of 14 hours to use at Honeybees. (For example, two full days).

·        Parents can continue to pay for any extra hours on top of their funded hours, if you wish to.

·        Parent can still access Early Bee/Late Bee sessions if required. Funded hours cannot be used at Early Bee/Late Bee sessions.

We operate as a community-run, not for profit charity and have served our families for many years. Without monies coming in which help to keep us afloat, we will have no choice but to close.  Our new fee model reflecting the most recent Government funding and our additional charges are there to make us sustainable by bridging the gap in the funding rate we receive from the government and what is actually needed to run our setting on an hourly basis.

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If you do not wish to pay for specific consumables, for example because you wish to provide your own, please can you notify Sam as soon as possible so next steps can be discussed.