Under the Willow Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.2 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in London for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 18:30, 5 days a week. £2179.56 a month for from 2 yrs Old, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in January 2022. Open since 2012, with 37 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
5 · 2662.82 · 2546.85 · 2179.56 · 1311.45
One published rate, dated 2026/2027. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
Working Parent 30hrs funding (br) - 9 to 24 mths; Working Parent 30hrs funding -Age 2+; Universal 15hrs funding - 3+.
Worth knowing. Additional voluntary charges: Meals 30hrs funding - £81.08 / month; 15hrs funding - £40.54 / month; Classes for 9mths-2yrs 5 days - £17.47 / month, 4 days - £16.80 / month, 3 days - £12.18 / month; Classes for Age 2+ 5 days - £48.60 / month, 4 days - £38.88 / month, 3 days - £29.12 / month. As we stretch our funded hours these are available up to a maximum of 11.96 (15-hours) or 21.92 (30-hours) hours per week, over the year.
What childcare usually costs in Southwark
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Southwark 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
SE21 8NWWhat 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.
- 20 March 2023 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 6 January 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and settled at the nursery. They show very secure attachments with staff and their peers. Children benefit from well-resourced play areas, inside and outdoors. They attend forest school sessions to learn about the natural world and personal safety. Children are eager to learn new skills. They enjoy activities that are based on their development needs and interests. For example, babies enjoy interactive singing and reading sessions. Staff help them to choose their favourite songs and stories, while they explore props to support their learning of vocabulary. Pre-school children decide on what they want to learn. For example, they show an interest in learning about planets. Staff plan a range of activities, such as to create models of planets, and games, for children to discover the position and the purposes of each planet.
Children have good opportunities to learn about the world around them. They enjoy regular outings and discussions about people in their community. This helps children to understand about diversity and to feel valued for who they are. All children benefit from staff's attentive approach to their personal needs. This includes those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those children who are learning English as an additional language. Strong partnerships with parents help children to have their learning extended between home and the nursery. Children behave well and understand what is expected of them. They have good manners and learn how to respect and cooperate with each other. Children of all ages make secure progress in preparation for their next stages of learning and for school.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- rearrange the organisation between activities and mealtimes to avoid babies waiting too long between routines n provide consistent opportunities for all pre-school children to be independent.
- 6 January 2022Good
- 21 May 2018Good
- 27 June 2017Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
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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 £2179.56 a month 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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