Childcare costs in Havant
Published prices run from £7.00 to £8.60 an hour (the middle is £7.80); a full day at a day nursery from £86.00 to £86.00.
Read from the nurseries' own fee pages, most recently on 2 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 (2)
"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.
The Wendy House
£7.00 an hour (its published hourly rate)
A year full time: £9,870 after 30 funded hours (£822 a month); £17,850 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
The nursery's published price on 2 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Bright Beginnings Nursery
£86.00 a day (day rates listed: £70.50 to £86.00) · £8.60 an hour (its day rate over a 10-hour day)
A year full time: £12,130 after 30 funded hours (£1,011 a month); £21,930 with no funded hours (under 9 months).
The nursery's published price on 2 October 2026: its fee page. Check with the nursery before you rely on it.
Nurseries whose fee we do not hold (17)
- Bidbury Pre-School (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 14 October 2021): fee unknown
- CherryPark Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 11 March 2025): fee unknown
- Girls & Boys Nursery & Pre School (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 16 November 2021): fee unknown
- Girls & Boys Nursery Dunsbury Way (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 30 April 2025): fee unknown
- Girls & Boys Nursery Ltd (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 19 April 2024): fee unknown
- Girls & Boys Nursery Sharps Copse (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 20 March 2024): fee unknown
- Girls & Boys Nursery Warren Park (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 23 May 2025): fee unknown
- Glenhurst Nursery & Pre-School (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 21 July 2023): fee unknown
- Growing Places Havant (Day nursery; Ofsted: Not inspected yet): fee unknown
- Kiddie Kingdom Day Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 30 May 2025): fee unknown
- Kiddie Kingdom Nursery @ Havant (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 10 December 2021): fee unknown
- Park Community Nursery (Day nursery; Ofsted: Report card: expected standard or better in every area, 23 January 2026): fee unknown
- Phoenix Pre-School (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 19 November 2024): fee unknown
- Shooting stars preschool ltd (Pre-school; Ofsted: Good, 12 December 2024): fee unknown
- St Clare's Pre-School (PO9 4JX) (Day nursery; Ofsted: Report card: strong standard or better in every area, 11 December 2025): fee unknown
- St Clare's Pre-School (PO9 4HN) (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 9 July 2021): fee unknown
- Tops Day Nurseries - Havant (Day nursery; Ofsted: Good, 23 November 2023): 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 Havant, 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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