Funding & Pricing 2026-2027

Funding Fee Calculator

Select the term, your child’s attendance pattern and the funded entitlement to estimate the monthly amount payable at Butterflies Childcare.

✦ Fee estimator

Plan your nursery sessions

Choose a weekly pattern to see funded hours at £0, any private childcare, and the optional services you select.

Government-funded childcare hours are charged at £0.
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Your childcare choices

Adjust any selection — the estimate updates instantly.

Weekly session pattern

Choose up to five attended days in total.

Published private rates

What the session charge includes

Meals, snacks and consumables are already contained within the published session charge. They are reconciled inside the parent total and are not added again.

Good to know

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Funded hours

Eligible funded hours are free. A funded place is not conditional on buying private childcare or optional services.

Charged session fees

The exact Merton funding value is applied to Butterflies’ published weekly session price. Any remaining childcare balance is shown separately.

Inclusive breakdown

Meals, snacks and consumables are identified within the calculated parent total. They are not added a second time.

This calculator is an estimate. Eligibility, funded attendance patterns and session availability must be confirmed by Butterflies Childcare. The annual 15-hour entitlement is 570 hours and the 30-hour entitlement is 1,140 hours across 38 funded weeks.