Nursery Fees Changing from September 2025

Canada Water is in a period of growth. In response to rising demand and a shared vision of excellence, we are planning to raise money in the coming year to expand our school into the rest of the building, to relocate the babies upstairs and open out the rest of the facility for our preschoolers.

This will enable us to welcome more families into our community while deepening the quality of provision for those already with us. Your support makes this possible, and we are excited to build a better, more expansive school together. We'd invite our community to take a look at the proposed plans and build programme here

Since the April 2025 rise in the National Minimum and Living Wage, our staffing costs—already the largest part of our operating budget—have increased significantly, as have broader inflation-related costs. Rather than compromise, we are choosing to invest: in retaining and rewarding our exceptional educators and in growing our school to meet the needs of the future and so our staff will be receiving a 15% increase in their base pay.

From this September, more working families with children aged 9 months and up will be eligible for government-funded childcare hours. Many of you will now be paying for fewer days per week, even as you retain the same high-quality care. For example, families receiving 30 funded hours year-round will benefit from two free (i.e. fully-funded) days per week and those on 15 hours / week will secure one free (fully funded) day per week when attending all year round — with fees only applying to the remaining days. Please do review the day rates applicable to those paid days in the attached fee card. Do note, we have new policies on the total number of fully funded places the schools have available and what optional extras families can pay towards to secure their space should none be left. Those monthly fees are asterisked in your fee cards 

Having concluded our project with the London Business School, we will be proactively pushing this measure upon employers across London as a means to negate the childcare that working parents have to pay. For those of you who are not aware, the scheme allows employers to pay your fees from your gross wages, reducing your taxable earnings to minimise your PAYE and their NICs. But can also allow employers to invest in the school via a corporation tax write off and in so doing negate the fees payable by their employees even further (we would argue to zero!). Please do introduce us to your employers to initiate these conversations and let us know how we can circulate the offer amongst your colleagues to help build awareness in / appetite for these kind of benefits. You can find out more on our Workplace Nursery pages