Simply Cherish Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.3 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Manchester for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 8am to 6pm. £95.00 a day for uNDER 2's, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in December 2023. Open since 2016, with 53 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
51 weeks a year, minimum 2 days a week, price list dated April 2026.
| Age | Full day | Hourly | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNDER 2'sbirth to 2y | £95.0007.30 - 18.00 | – | – | |
| All ages | – | £9.05remaining 2 hrs 45 minutes | £211.482 days per week £317.223 days per week £720.974 days per week £1124.725 days per week |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £75.00 registration feenot refundable
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £6.00 a day daily charge of £6 covers the cost of mealsFunding EYF hours only (38 weeks), includes meals
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Funding EYF hours only (38 weeks) – subject to availability.
Worth knowing. Government funding is not intended to cover the cost of meals, consumables or extracurricular activities. Therefore, a daily charge of £6 covers the cost of meals. Nappies, wipes, creams etc need to be provided by parents on a daily basis. We can only claim for a maximum of 10 hours each day, so if your child only attends for 2 days a week, we can only claim 20 hours despite you being entitled to 30.
What childcare usually costs in Manchester
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Manchester 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
M16 8GJWhat 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, 6 December 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The curriculum is ambitious for all children. As result, children are gaining lots of knowledge and skills that help to prepare them for their future learning. This includes children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Children with SEND thrive because staff focus on what they need to learn and break down tasks into small steps. This gives children the right support they need to succeed.
Managers and staff have created a happy and safe environment for children. They know the children well and take time to build relationships with their parents. This partnership working helps children to feel settled from the onset. For example, staff share ideas with parents to help further extend their children's communication and language skills. Staff acknowledge families' different faiths and provide opportunities to celebrate special events, such as Divali, with all children. This helps children to understand that people have different beliefs, which enhances their awareness of the community and the wider world.
Children have many opportunities to take on important roles, which keeps them motivated and gives them a sense of importance. For example, pre-school children enjoy the responsibility of setting the table for lunch. Toddlers show respect for their environment as they sweep up the sand, without any help from staff. All children beam with pride when they are praised for their hard work.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- improve the organisation of the learning environment in the baby room, to help babies further develop their physical skills n provide further support to staff to help enhance the teaching of the curriculum, to extend further children's learning.
- 6 December 2023Good
- 24 October 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Simply Cherish Day Nursery
- 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 £95.00 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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