Bookings and additional hours
The minimum booking is one day per week. Additional childcare hours can be booked outside your usual sessions. Contact us to agree the days and times you need.
FOR PARENTS & CARERS
Useful information, in one place.
From your first visit to planning your sessions, find the details that help you feel prepared.
Term dates
Honey Pots operates during term time. We use West Sussex County Council’s 2026/27 school term calendar as a reference. Nursery-specific variations may apply, so please check our exact opening and closure dates with us before planning your childcare.
View the official West Sussex school term calendar for 2026/27 ↗
Read our booking and payment terms →Terms & Conditions
These booking and payment details help you plan your childcare. Please read the nursery’s complete written terms before agreeing a place; you can request them from the setting.
Funded childcare
Eligible funded hours replace chargeable childcare hours. Additional hours are charged at the published hourly rate for your child’s pricing band. You can split funded hours between settings; agree the hours you will use at Honey Pots with us. Funding depends on eligibility and agreed sessions, and does not guarantee a place. Provide funding information through the nursery’s approved private process, rather than the public enquiry form.
Invoices and payments
Invoices cover four open nursery weeks, as close to monthly as practical. Payment is expected weekly. You pay for chargeable weeks when the nursery is open, not closure weeks. The calculator estimates four nursery weeks; your invoice depends on your agreed booking, funding and optional food.
Registration and deposit
A £20 registration fee and a deposit apply where a place is not fully funded. The deposit is equivalent to one week’s childcare fees after funded hours have been deducted. It is refunded when your child leaves the nursery. Please read the complete written booking terms, including notice and cancellation conditions, before agreeing a place.
Late collection
A £10 late collection charge may apply when children are collected after their agreed session finishing time. Applicable charges are added to the invoice at the end of the four-week billing period.
Meals and snacks
Meals and snacks are optional and charged separately. Families can supply food from home. Fruit is offered at 10am and 2pm, hot lunch and second course at 12pm, and tea at 4pm. Agree food choices to suit your sessions.
Nursery policies
Our nursery policies and privacy documents are kept in a folder at the setting. You are welcome to read them when you visit, or contact us to request the information you need before agreeing a place.
Safeguarding & child protection
Request the nursery’s current safeguarding and child protection policy.
Request this policy →Illness & medication
Ask for current guidance before bringing medicine or when your child is unwell.
Request this policy →Complaints & concerns
Contact us for the complaints procedure and to discuss a concern.
Request this policy →Admissions, fees & attendance
Request the complete booking terms, including deposits, notice and collection charges.
Request this policy →COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
A little look around.
A friendly conversation.
Meet the team, explore the nursery and talk about what your family needs.