Free tool · England
Work out your nursery bill
Start with the rate on your nursery's fee sheet. Add the days you need, any funded hours and the usual extras. The calculator gives you a monthly estimate and shows how it got there.
Parents can use it without signing up. Nurseries can also add it to their own website for free.
Copy the relevant figures from the nursery's fee sheet. If you cannot find one, ask the nursery for its current rates.
These figures let us compare funded hours with full and half-day bookings.
Tax-Free Childcare is unavailable until its current top-up rate and limits have been loaded from the official source.
Your estimate
£0 a month
£0 a year, about £0 an hour after funding.
Add the nursery's rate above to see a total. There is no example rate loaded.
- Fees before funding
- £0
- Funded hours
- None applied
- Extras
- None added
- What you actually pay
- £0
The booked days charged at the nursery's rate for the number of weeks entered.
Funded hours reduce chargeable childcare time. Meals, nappies and other extras are handled separately.
Any meals, nappies, consumables or trips entered above, shown as a yearly total.
The estimated yearly amount after the adjustments listed above.
Rules checked as at an unavailable date, so the funding figures should not yet be relied on. This is an estimate for England, not financial advice. Check the final amount with your nursery. Official information: childcarechoices.gov.uk.
Running a nursery involves rather more than fee calculations.
DullDocs keeps staff records, policies, certificates and inspection evidence in order, so the paperwork is ready when somebody asks for it.
How UK nursery fees actually work in 2026
This section is being checked before publication. Nursery billing varies, particularly around sessions, deposits and stretched funding, so we will not fill the gap with a guess.
Questions parents ask
The answers are still being checked against the official guidance. They will appear here once that is done.