Care plan
The care plan: £50 a month, on top of the build
Domain, hosting, updates, security, backups, one minor change a year and a mailbox. Rolling monthly, 30 days notice, no minimum term, no exit fee.
A website care plan is a monthly service that keeps a site online and current: the domain, the hosting, security monitoring, backups and updates. UK plans run from about £20 to £600 a year for a small site, or more for larger ones. Ours is £50 a month, includes one mailbox and one minor change a year, is optional, and ends on 30 days notice with no exit fee.
Included
- Domain registration and renewal, held in your name or as your agent
- Hosting on a global network with automatic HTTPS
- Software and technical updates as the web changes
- Security monitoring and daily backups
- One free minor change a year: a fee update, a staff change, new hours
- One professional mailbox on your domain
- The Ofsted section swapped from grade to report card when your inspection happens
Not included
- New pages or sections (quoted first, usually £150 to £400)
- Content rewrites beyond the annual minor change
- Search and AI visibility work, which is the separate retainer
- Your nursery software subscriptions
- Photography
Leaving
Thirty days written notice. We hand over the site files and transfer the domain to you free of charge. There is no exit fee and nothing is held back. The price can change at most once a year, with 30 days written notice.
What a nursery website costs here
- Starter from £1,495, live in 2 to 5 weeks
- Nursery from £2,995, live in 3 to 5 weeks
- Group from £5,995, live in 4 to 6 weeks
Fixed price, quoted in advance. The care plan is £50 a month and covers domain, hosting, backups and updates; it is optional. Search and AI visibility retainers start at £497 a month. Full pricing.
Us, a website builder, or a generalist agency
Three honest routes to a nursery website. Which one is right depends on how much of it you want to do yourself.
| Template builder | Generalist web agency | Full Rooms Websites | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical cost | £15 to £40 a month, plus your evenings | £2,500 to £10,000 | £1,495 to £5,995 fixed, plus £50 a month care plan |
| Fees page to the April 2026 DfE rules | You write it | Only if you brief it | Built in, with the DfE chargeable extras template underneath |
| Ofsted report cards, from November 2025 | Not handled | Usually a single-word grade badge | Report card layout, QR badge to your report |
| Famly, Ovivio and eyworks enquiry forms | Manual embed | Quoted as an extra | Included, or a plain form into your inbox if you use no software |
| A page for each district you draw from | Rare | Charged per page | In every package above Starter |
| Who owns the files | The platform | Varies, ask before you sign | You, on completion, as plain HTML |
| Time to live | A weekend to a month of your evenings | 6 to 12 weeks is typical | 2 to 6 weeks |
Agency range from Duport, Average Cost of Website Design for Small Business UK, read 11 September 2026. Builder pricing from published list prices, same date.
How a build runs, start to finish
Four steps. You see a fixed price and a page plan before anything is designed.
1. Tell us about your nursery
Four details in the form. Then a short brief: rooms, ages, fees, funded hours, any software you use, the towns you draw from.
2. You get your quote
A fixed price, a page plan and a live date, within one working day. No call, unless you want one.
3. Design and build
You see a design first. Two rounds of revisions. Then we build every page and connect your enquiry form to your software.
4. Live in 2 to 6 weeks
We handle domain and hosting. You get a written handover and a care plan from £50 a month.
What nursery owners say
Firefly Nursery
The team designed and developed our new website and continue to work with us on an ongoing basis through their SEO and AI Visibility package. They’re helping us strengthen our presence on Google and across emerging AI search platforms, so more local parents can discover our nursery online. It’s great having one team looking after both our website and our long-term digital visibility.
Oak Tree Nursery
We wanted a website that really captured the warmth and personality of our nursery and gave parents confidence in choosing us. The finished website does exactly that. It showcases our setting beautifully, explains what we offer clearly and makes it incredibly easy for prospective parents to arrange a visit or get in touch.
More enquiries from local parents
Our new website has made a huge difference to our online presence. Parents can quickly understand what makes our nursery special and easily take the next step to arrange a visit. We’ve had fantastic feedback on how professional, welcoming and easy to use the website is.
Questions nursery owners ask
Is the care plan compulsory?
It is how the site stays online, so a site needs hosting from somewhere. You can host it yourself or elsewhere; we hand over the files and the domain on request. Most settings keep the plan because £50 a month covers everything a website needs.
What counts as a minor change?
Anything under about 30 minutes: a price on the fees page, a new team member, new opening hours, a policy PDF swapped. Bigger jobs are quoted first.
Can we edit the site ourselves?
Yes. It is plain HTML in a repository you have access to, and we give you written instructions for the common edits. Many managers do fee updates themselves.
Does it cost money to keep a website running?
Yes. A domain is roughly £10 to £20 a year, hosting £50 to £200 a year, and updates and security either your own time or a care plan. Ours is £50 a month and covers the domain, hosting, backups, security monitoring, one mailbox and one minor change a year. It is optional and you can leave with 30 days notice.
How much does a nursery website cost?
A nursery website in the UK costs between about £1,000 and £6,000 as a one-off build, plus £20 to £60 a month to keep it running. Ours are £1,495 for a single setting of up to eight pages, £2,995 for an established nursery and £5,995 for a group of two or more, with a £50 a month care plan on top. Monthly-only offers from £15 to £40 exist, but you usually rent the site rather than own it.
Do we own the website at the end?
Yes. On completion and full payment the files are yours, as plain HTML with no proprietary platform to be locked into. Domains we register go in your name where the registrar allows it, and transfer to you free of charge whenever you ask, including if you stop the care plan.
How long does it take to build a nursery website?
Two to five weeks for a single setting, three to five for an established nursery, four to six for a group. The clock starts when your brief is complete. The slow part is almost always waiting for fees, room details and staff names, so the faster you send those the sooner it is live.
Every package includes the care plan option. Start with a quote.
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