Lindens Early Years
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A pre-school in Stroud for children from birth to 8+, open 09:00 to 16:00, 5 days a week. £45.30 a day for 3 and over, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2023. Open since 2020, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 3birth to 3y | – | £33.80unfunded | |
| 3 and over3y to 5y | £45.30 | £30.20Morning, 6 hrs | |
| 3 and 43y to 4y | £47.64 | £31.76Morning | |
| Over 55y to 5y | £47.64Cost of full day | £31.76Cost of morning | |
| All ages | £47.64additional and one-off | £31.76additional and one-off |
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £3.59 a session Snackvoluntary contribution
- £4.60 a day Lunchvoluntary contribution
- £5.61 a day Additional activitiesvoluntary contribution
- £9.20 a session Cost of food and materials/morningvoluntary contribution
- £13.80 a day Cost of food and materials/full dayvoluntary contribution
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Up to 15 hours of childcare a week; Working families who qualify also get an additional 15 hours per week, making it a total of 30 hours; funding available for some 2 year olds.
Worth knowing. Voluntary contribution towards the cost of food and non-food consumables.
What childcare usually costs in Gloucestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Gloucestershire 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
GL5 2HTWhat 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 September 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive with excitement and confidence, ready for their day. Staff welcome families with their kind, nurturing manner. They give parents time for discussion and the exchange of information to help to ensure that children are well supported during their day. All children, even those who have very recently started at the kindergarten, settle with ease. Parents leave happy knowing that their children are safe and secure and their needs are being met.
Leaders and staff have worked hard to improve since the previous inspection. They plan and implement an ambitious curriculum that follows the Steiner ethos, while building on what children already know and need to learn next. Younger children develop their imaginative skills when they catch 'fish' in the 'sea'. Staff facilitate learning by offering children a basket for their 'fish'. They ask children if they need
'water'. Children fetch a blue silk cloth and say 'here is some water fishes'. Staff and children engage in exciting, purposeful play together. Older children recall what they have already learned when they create a puppet show about princesses.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to consistently manage children's behaviour effectively and help children to understand the impact that their actions may have on others n enhance staff's use of questions so that children have time to think and respond, to extend their thinking even further.
- 13 September 2023Good
- 27 March 2023Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Lindens Early Years
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- Is £45.30 a day still the rate? 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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.