Childcare costs in Benfleet
Published prices run from £4.20 to £8.50 an hour (the middle is £6.73); a full day at a day nursery from £42.00 to £85.00.
Read from the nurseries' own fee pages, most recently on 16 October 2026.
Work out the cost for your child's age and days
Funded hours, by age
| Age | Funded hours | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Under 9 months | None | Every family pays the full fee. |
| 9 months to 2 years | Up to 30 hours a week, 38 weeks a year | Working parents (gov.uk) |
| 2 years | Up to 30 hours a week if you work; 15 hours if you get certain support | Working parents, or families on some benefits (gov.uk) |
| 3 and 4 years, until Reception | 15 hours a week for every child; up to 30 for working parents | Everyone (gov.uk) |
Hours start the term after your child reaches the age: terms start on 1 September, 1 January and 1 April. 30 hours a week for 38 weeks is 1,140 hours a year, and many nurseries spread them over more weeks. Working parents apply on gov.uk for a code and reconfirm it every three months. Key dates works out when your child's hours start.
National rules for England from September 2025: gov.uk. Nurseries may charge for meals, nappies and activities on funded hours; those charges are not in the figures here.
Nurseries with a published fee (4)
"A year full time" is 5 days of 10 hours for 51 weeks (2,550 hours). With 30 funded hours (a child from 9 months to 4 years, parents working) 1,140 of them are free and 1,410 are paid at the nursery's hourly rate. Pre-schools open for sessions, not full days, so only their hourly rate is shown.
Runnymede Pre-School
£42.00 a day · £4.20 an hour (its day rate over a 10-hour day)
A year full time: £5,920 after 30 funded hours (£493 a month); £10,710 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
The nursery's published price on 8 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Queen Bee's Day Nursery
£54.75 a day · £5.47 an hour (its day rate over a 10-hour day)
A year full time: £7,710 after 30 funded hours (£642 a month); £13,950 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
The nursery's published price on 16 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
First Class Day Nursery Ltd
£80.00 a day (day rates listed: £78.00 to £80.00) · £8.00 an hour (its day rate over a 10-hour day)
A year full time: £11,280 after 30 funded hours (£940 a month); £20,400 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
The nursery's published price on 8 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Sandcastles Nursery
£85.00 a day (day rates listed: £76.80 to £85.00) · £8.50 an hour (its day rate over a 10-hour day)
A year full time: £11,980 after 30 funded hours (£998 a month); £21,680 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
The nursery's published price on 8 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Nurseries whose fee we do not hold (9)
- Georgie Porgie (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 24 April 2024): fee unknown
- Happy Stars T.M Preschool (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 11 July 2025): fee unknown
- Little Footprints Day Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Outstanding, 29 July 2025): fee unknown
- Purple Lion Day Nursery (Benfleet) (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 7 January 2025): fee unknown
- Richmond Pre-school CIC (Pre-school; Ofsted: Outstanding, 10 May 2022): fee unknown
- The Enchanted Wood Day Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Outstanding, 7 August 2025): fee unknown
- Thundersley Congregational Church (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 2 November 2022): fee unknown
- Tree Tots Pre-school (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 26 March 2024): fee unknown
- Woodside's Little Me Pre-School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 25 March 2022): fee unknown
For comparison, a paid hour at a typical nursery in the South East region costs £8.06 for a child under 2 and £7.58 for a 2-year-old. That is a survey average, not any nursery's own price.
Source: Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
More in nurseries in Benfleet, ranked by what Ofsted found, and private school fees.
Nurseries: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections. Fees: each nursery's own website, read by kinplace's fee reader; a fee is left out when the page is shared with other nurseries (unless it is a chain's own price list, checked again for each branch), on another website, for an earlier year, or read more than 120 days ago.
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