All fees are charged monthly.
Weekly fees are multiplied by 50 and divided by 12.
Sibling discount = 10%
Five day discount = 5%
Kindergarten Charges Without Funding
8-4 £90.64
8-6 £104.23
Additional Hour £11.49
At Young Friends, we see early years care as an investment — not a commodity.
We are a fully plant-based, sustainability-led early years community, designed for families who value calm, connection, and meaningful childhood experiences. Our fees reflect the true cost of providing high-quality care in a way that aligns with our values.
This includes:
Fresh, homemade food cooked daily
Sustainable care practices, learning and materials
Experienced educators who work with presence and intention
A thoughtfully curated environment that supports emotional wellbeing
Enrichment rooted in real life: cooking, gardening, nature and community
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Street parking, right outside
Young Friends Kindergarten has a Review Score of 8.1 (8.083) out of 10, based on 1 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Young Friends Kindergarten has 27 reviews.
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I also started my littlest there in May 2017 and she is getting on so well. Her key worker knows her very well and they have an excellent relationship. The activities provided for little ones are great including a lovely garden and soft play section.
In summary, this is an excellent nursery with amazing facilities and staff for all age children. They are constantly making improvements and I've been very happy sending my children there for the last 3.5 years!
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Things I am impressed with are the healthy menus, daily planned activities,
Also, love the weekly blog which the grandparents regularly look at too.
The staff put in a lot of effort to make the day interesting and fun for the children and there always seems to be new 'activity areas'. I really like how much painting /messy play they do, they are certainly not afraid of making a mess and the children love it. My daughter also enjoys the singing and dancing.
Overall we are extremely happy with Young Friends nursery and would highly recommend it.
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The activities provided are outstanding from yoga to phonics to the fantastic allotment on which he has spent many happy days!
Thank you to the owner and the team for a wonderful nursery experience.
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The Review Score of 8.1 (8.083) out of 10 for Young Friends Kindergarten is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.
The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:
The 5 points available are broken down as follows:
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My pronouns: she/her
Child care qualifications
Louise is qualified to Level 6 Childcare and Education with Early Years Professional Status. She also has a BA (Hons) in History of Art and has Scuba Diving and Skydiving qualifications.
About me
I have three brilliant children. At 6, my eldest, now storming it at Uni, was an integral part of Young Friends at its conception. Those first few children adored her and her them.
My mission, together with my father (now sadly passed), was, in his word to create ‘the best nursery in the UK’. My other two children also spent their first years in Young Friends. We lived in the building, and they were literally breastfed during staff supervision!
I’ve lived and breathed the place all that time, always fascinated by nature alongside child development and wellbeing. More recently, in tandem with a passion for this at home, I became intent on merging all of this with sustainability.
As Founder, I have now finally taken a step away from daily management – a difficult decision because I just love the Young Friends team, and only made possible because Emma and I happened upon each other. I was determined only to do this when the absolutely right person came along. It’s been a sweeping learning curve for me in many areas, like biodiversity etc, and my passion has increasingly become about creating little sustainable citizens and helping the team get excited by this. I want to help them to understand what natural, sustainable learning truly means in practice and to child outcomes, and how to facilitate it whilst sticking to the EYFS. It’s an exciting journey we are all on, and far from over yet.
When I’m not building up the kindergarten, I love running and going for country walks with my family and my beautiful Labrador. She has the perfect temperament for a nursery dog, and I often take her to kindergarten. The children adore her. I have always owned pets and been interested in animal therapy. We’ve started keeping (and rescuing) guinea pigs at the kindergarten, too. They are hilarious, and I love to encourage the staff to spend lots of time with them with the children.
I also adore gardening and am soon to embark on my RHS gardening course. I learnt a lot about rewilding, and in my last house (much to my children’s dismay), I turned the entire (small) garden into a haven for wildlife. Of course, I also bring this to kindergarten– hence our gorgeous wild woodland garden.
I am passionate about sustainability inside the house, too and have a cupboard dedicated to making my own cleaning and other products. It’s so rewarding.
Interior Design has always been a passion of mine, and I love to create a feature wall. Colour plays a massive role in well-being and how we feel, and I have tried to incorporate this into the kindergarten décor to establish a feeling of calm and well-being.
I also love photography, which I also manage to use when creating social media posts and to promote a healthy partnership with our families and wider community.
I love coming to work because I am incredibly proud of the environment and team I have created. I believe what Young Friends Kindergarten and Young Friends Tribe are doing is incredibly important, and our talented and caring team do too. It’s exciting to be making a difference to these children’s lives and, though they don’t know it yet, many of them will grow up to do important things with regard to sustainability because it will be a part of them – they will just do it naturally. That makes me very proud indeed.
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My pronouns: she/her
Child care qualifications
About me
My pronouns: he/him
Child care qualifications
Ivan is just about to complete his Level 3 in Early Years.
About me
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