Active Kids
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Hove for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2025. Open since 2019, with 62 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Children from 9 months – Working Parent Entitlement: All-Year care: up to 22.35 funded hours per week. Term-Time Only care: up to 30 funded hours per week. Children aged 3 and 4 – universal entitlement: All-Year care: up to 11.17 funded hours per week. Term-Time Only care: up to 15 funded hours per week. Early Learning for 2-year-olds: Some two-year-olds can receive up to 15 hours of funded early.
Worth knowing. Standalone funded sessions are available from 8:00am-3:30pm, Monday to Thursday, during term time only and subject to availability. Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. When funding is used alongside paid childcare, a maximum of six funded hours can be used per nursery day. Children attending fewer days will use fewer funded hours. If you wish to access funded-hours-only sessions, families will be offered a reasonable alternative to paying for meals, nappies and other option.
What childcare usually costs in Brighton and Hove
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Brighton and Hove from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
BN3 8LDWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
- 13 May 2026 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
- 2 February 2026 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 11 April 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff have high expectations for all children to succeed and as such, children make good progress. Staff plan well for children's development, and children show that they are ready and eager to engage in these learning opportunities. For instance, staff build on children's interest in books by giving them picture cards that match the scenes in the story. Children enjoy matching up the pictures and placing them in sequence order, which enables them to develop an awareness of how stories are structured.
Children are supported to become independent learners. They enjoy the range of activities and experiences on offer. Staff follow their interests to extend their learning, such as challenging children to use scissors to cut out different shapes.
Staff also support children to manage tasks for themselves. For instance, they help younger children to wash their own hands before they eat. Older children learn to serve their own food during mealtimes and scrape their food into the bin afterwards. Staff recognise when to step in to support children, which helps them to gradually build on these skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen staff practice so children benefit from consistently good support in their care and learning needs
- 11 April 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 17 November 2021Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Active Kids
- What it costs
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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