Pepperpot Nursery Ltd
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Brighton for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £84.50 a day for baby Unit (Elm Grove site), and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2023. Open since 1995, with 42 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
8 am to 6 pm = £84.50
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
Baby Unit: 9 months to 23 months eligible for 30 hours funding per week (term time only) or 1140 hours per year; 15 hrs Stretched Offer (maximum 11 funded hours per week for 51 weeks per year = 561 hours); 30 hrs Stretched Offer Extended (maximum 22 funded hours per week for 51 weeks per year = 1122 hours). Nursery: All 3 & 4 year olds eligible for 15 hours a week for 38 weeks per year (term-time.
Worth knowing. Eligibility code required, applied for termly in advance and revalidated approximately every three months. Voluntary charges apply for meals, snacks, nappies, activities and suncream. Funded sessions have a cost left to pay after funded hours are removed.
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
BN2 3PFWhat 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, 24 February 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children have a happy start to the day and are warmly welcomed by staff. Parents share information with staff as they arrive. This helps children to settle in and staff to meet children's needs throughout the day.
Children listen attentively to the choice of activities indoors and outside. They enjoy stories, such as 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and exclaim 'We're going to make a giant!'. Staff encourage children to think about what they need to make a giant.
They talk about size and estimate how much paper they will need. Other children put on their coats and shoes and plant beans in pots outside. Children watch as staff plant a magic bean in the nursery. After lunch, the bean has started to 'grow'
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- plan and resource focused activities appropriately to enable all children to be fully included.
- 24 February 2023Good
- 23 May 2017Good
- 10 June 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Pepperpot Nursery Ltd
- 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 £84.50 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.
- 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.
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