FAQs
Funding and discounted care
Funding is calculated on a 38-week year (term time). Tomberries operates over 51 weeks of the year therefore funding will be ‘stretched’ to cover 51 weeks.
We access Universal 15 hours and Extended 30 hours free childcare entitlement for 9 months - 5 year olds. For more information please contact us.
A child is only eligible for funding the school term after they turn 9months/2years/3years old.
Sibling Discount
Siblings are eligible for a 10% discount. The discount will be applied to the lowest fee.
Workplace Nursery Benefit Scheme
We have partnered with two Workplace Benefit Schemes, “Enjoy Benefits” and “Yellow Nest”. These schemes work to help provide further savings for parents, employers and nurseries.
What is it?
Workplace Nursery Provision works by your employer contracting with a nursery for places for you to use.
• If you are employed by a company or are an employee of your own business, this is a benefit the business can offer at no cost to the company
• You save Tax and NI on your full nursery fees, allowing you, as a parent, to make thousands of pounds in savings
• Your employer partners with the chosen nursery, providing them with additional funding
• This works alongside other Government Funding and Tax-Free Childcare (TFC)
It enables employees who choose to use a nursery setting for the care of their child, to save money as a result of reduced tax and national insurance payments. This benefit can be used from birth up to the age of 5 (or when the child goes to school).
This benefit is a contracted partnership between your employer and a nursery. In order for you to access a workplace nursery place, your employer must partner with a chosen nursery. The cost of a workplace nursery place, includes all of the benefit administration costs.
This cost is recouped from your gross salary.
What savings can I make?
The Tax and NI savings are on the full amount of your nursery fees, savings of between 28% and 47% can be achieved
•If for example your monthly nursery fees are £1,000, you can save around £4,150 per year as a higher rate tax payer and over £2,250 as a basic rate tax payer
•We can provide this workplace nursery benefit to you even if you have Tax-Free Childcare (TFC)
If your workplace already runs this benefit with either “Enjoy Benefits” or “Yellow Nest” speak to them to learn how to access this.
If your workplace does not offer this benefit, try speaking with your employer/ HR. You can also contact either “Enjoy Benefits” or “Yellow Nest” directly online.
Please note that we charge £40 admin fee per month to cover costs associated with running these schemes for the duration of the contract. If you need more information please do not hesitate to contact us.