Honey Pots Childcare Limited
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A pre-school in Crawley for from 1 year 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 2023. Open since 2010, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
West Sussex County Council 15 & 30 Hour funding; 2 Year old funding; 3 Year Old funding - 15 or 30 hours.
What childcare usually costs in West Sussex
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in West Sussex 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
RH10 8NDWhat 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.
Ofsted inspector, 13 April 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive at the nursery with joyful smiles and wave goodbye to their parents happily. Children feel safe and confident. They demonstrate their growing independence as they thoughtfully look for the letter of their name and proudly hang their bags and coats on their peg. Friendly staff welcome children and engage them in meaningful conversations that foster their developing language skills. They talk together about the different people that are in the nursery today and the interesting activities that children have been doing at home during the Easter holidays.
Leaders create an ambitious and well-organised curriculum that builds on children's interests. Children quickly become absorbed with the engaging resources that have been set up for them. Staff are on hand to support each learning experience. For example, children try hard as they fit puzzle pieces together and carefully match the different parts of the picture together. Staff offer them plenty of praise when they complete it with success and recognise the different numbers with ease.
Children are proud of their accomplishments and have highly positive attitudes to learning.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to help them understand how to consistently and effectively explain rules and boundaries so that they can be fully understood by children n strengthen the delivery of learning and encourage children to make links between different concepts to deepen their understanding.
- 13 April 2023Good
- 3 August 2017Good
- 30 October 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Honey Pots Childcare Limited
- What it costs
- Meals
- Nappies
- 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.