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Fees and Funding Holiday Club FEEE Funding Teatime Club Sibling Discount Our Fees Other info. Additional Charges SEND + Pupil Premium Holiday Club Holiday club is offered at The Lloyd Park and Higham Hill Centres for primary aged children. £48.30 per day More info Teatime Clubs More info School Collections Lloyd Park Centre children: collections from Winns Primary School Higham Hill Centre children: collections from Hillyfields on the Hill and Whittingham Primary Schools Charges £20.06 per da y Registration fee £24.08 for both clubs Childcare Fees Whole-year contracts Under 3yrs 8am-5:50pm 1 Day - £91.96 8am-1:30pm 1 Day - £58.42 3 Days - £275.88 3 Days - £175.26 4 Days - £367.84 5 Days - £459.78 Monthly full-time - £1915.76 4 Days - £233.68 5 Days - £292.10 Monthly full-time - £1217.08 3-5yrs 8am-5:50pm 1 Day - £85.29 3 Days - £255.87 4 Days - £341.16 5 Days - £426.45 Monthly full-time - £1776.88 8am-1:30pm 1 Day - £55.99 3 Days - £167.97 4 Days - £223.96 5 Days - £279.95 Monthly full-time - £1166.46 Important notes Prices are based upon a minimum attendance of 3 days per week to include a Monday or Friday. Fees are not charged for 2wk Christmas Closure, Team Training Days & Bank Holidays. All Fees are payable irrespective of non-attendance due to child holiday or sickness. Under 3's move into the '3-5yrs' charge band the term after their 3rd birthday. For extra hours purchased in addition to that of your child's contracted hours the hourly rates of £10.61 for under 3's and £10.18 for 3-5yrs will apply. Fees are quoted before deduction of the Free Early Education Entitlement (FEEE) Additional Charges Additional service charge We apply an additional daily service charge for items such as hot food, snacks and drinks on those days where the FEEE is applied. 30hr Sessional Daycare Breakfast AM £10.64 £10.64 £2.91 £9.74 No discount is applied to this charge We do not charge the Additional Service Charge to those children attend Monday to Friday 9am to 12pm Sessional Contracts No additional service charge applies to those sessions where the FEEE hrs are used in full over 38wks (Term-time Contract): 9am to 12pm (3hrs per day) 9am to 3pm (6hrs per day) Monday to Friday The 'Average Monthly Fee' is based upon the weekly fee multiplied by 50wks divided by 12 equal monthly instalments. Registration Fee We charge a registration fee of £24.08 for Day Care and tea time club contracts. Late collection Fee Our late collection charges are displayed in our settings. Administration Fees (after end of contract) £11.20 fee for each overpayment made via standing order 20% fee where a 'Tax Free Childcare' payment/voucher is received at the end of your contract. Free Working Families Childcare Support & Free Early Education Entitlement (FEEE) Please read our guide to funding which covers the following childcare topics. 9-23 month old funding Open Guide 2yr olds FEEE Funding FEEE for 3-4yr olds 30hr extended entitlement for working families Please obtain your 11-digit code from the government website. This proves that you are eligible for free childcare. (We need this code in order to offer places) Check eligibility and apply for your code on the government's website here: Check Eligibility More childcare information Local Authority on the local authority's website here: Please be aware that the links above will connect you to external websites. Our charity cannot be responsible for the content of these sites including any downloadable files. Please read our policy on links to external web pages here Sibling Discount Our sibling discount is applied to the older siblings account. It is only applied to childcare hours purchased and not to other items such as the 'Additional Service Charge' for those children in receipt of the 'Free Early Education Entitlement'. Under 3's 3 to 5's Mixed Ages 10% 5% 5% Other Information Prices are based upon a minimum attendance of 3 days per week which must include a Monday and/or Friday. The fees are quoted before deduction of the Free Early Education Entitlement (FEEE). If you would like to purchase extra sessions we charge the following hourly rates: Under 3's 3 to 5's £10.61 £10.18 You will be charged/invoiced for any hours or services that you wish to purchase that are above the free entitlement SEND and Pupil Premium Pupil Premium The Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is additional funding for early years settings aimed at improving the education we provide for disadvantaged 3 and 4yr olds We can get up to £388 per year to spend directly on supporting your child’s education which makes a big difference! Please speak to staff at your setting to find out whether you are eligible Check eligibility SEND Early Years settings can access additional funding to support children with learning and developmental delay and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) This includes Disability Access Fund (DAF), SEND Inclusion Fund (SENIF) and Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP) More info Links to an external webpage Please be aware that these links will connect you to external websites. Our charity cannot be responsible for the content of these sites including any downloadable files. Please read our policy on links to external web pages here

Work, training & further education Throughout our five decade history as a grassroots organisation we've always worked alongside and recruited members of our community, bringing their invaluable lived-experience to our work whilst they learn new skills themselves. Some of our longest serving managers started out that way! Creating much needed training and employment offers is incredibly important to us, so we strive to find ways to generate opportunities that both support our mission and give local people a chance. Can you support local people find their place? Whilst we continue to create opportunities flocallly, we are always looking for ways to support our community to find the skills and employment prospects that are right for them. Through our family-centred approach we build trusting relationships with parents meaning we are well placed to introduce them to trusted partners who can offer work experience, training and mentoring opportunties. If your organisation has social impact schemes centred on raising skills in the community we'd love to hear from you to explore possibilities! Email our team We can support your team or students gain experience We've developed a strong culture of continuous professional development, accredited training programmes and work experience opportunities making us experienced in creating opportunities to help people gain experieince and enhance their professional developement. Get in touch with us if you'd like to explore ways that we could support your team or your students to gain new experience, whether that be through direct training, work placements or research projects. Email our team

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See available post from across our charity. We regularlty recruit to positions in childcare, early years learning and developement, family support, and a variety of support roles. Fundraising Officer Location: Waltham Forest - Office-based and hybrid Salary: £35,000 per annum, 1 year fixed-term contract Probation: 6 months Hours: Fulltime Closing date: Noon, Monday 3rd March 2025 Interviews: w/c 10th March Overview In this exciting newly created role, you will take the lead in growing and sustaining our fundraising income. Your responsibilities will span the fundraising process from identifying funding opportunities and potential grant-makers, designing and developing compelling funding proposals and promoting these opportunities, through to managing relationships with donors. Ideal candidates will have energy, motivation, and the experience to be able to make an instant impact on the organisation; they will understand the wider charity context, have good attention for detail and can make things happen. Candidates are expected to be fundraisers with at least three years of experience and have a track record of success in securing funds. Crucially, we want to recruit an individual who is as committed to Lloyd Park Children’s Charity's vision, and will work with us to make a huge difference to local marginalised and vulnerable children and families. We operate a standard 6 month probation for all of our roles. For this role success will be contingent on increasing the number of funding applications submitted and demonstrable positive fundraising outcomes. This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore subject to an enhanced DBS certificate; this is a requirement of the DBS code of practice. Job Description Apply Now

Apply for a childcare place Waiting list Due to high demand for our childcare we have to operate a waiting list for places. Registration Fee A non-refundable fee of £24.08 per child covers our costs. There is no fee for FEEE term-time sessional places Waiting List Position Your place entered at the time that your registration fee is confirmed. Notification Once added to the waiting list, our team will contact you if an appropriate place for you child becomes available. Current waiting list status The Lloyd Park Centre 15 hour FEEE sessional care - Open Daycare - Open The Higha m Hill Centre 15 hour FEEE sessional care - Open Daycare - Open Limited places available Join Waiting List Join Waiting List

Community Services for your family Get Help Well Baby Bank Learn more Family Support Learn more Early Years Social Prescribing Learn more CoCo East A co-production collaborative aiming to bring parents, organisations and the community together to improve services for children. Get involved SEND Find out about the SEND support our practitioners offer through our childcare and our community services. Learn more Sleep Support Access support and resoruces to help you and your baby develop healthy sleep routines and improve overall wellbeing. Learn more Wellbeing Find out about the wellbeing support our teams can offer you and you child to help you thrive. Learn more Follow us on our socials for updates on scheduled activities and sessions

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The Lloyd Park Centre Inspiring Surroundings Nestled in a leafy corner of Lloyd park, our centre is a vibrant, purpose built, childcare and activity centre. We enjoy free-flow play both indoor and outdoor, with open-plan rooms and magical outside adventure spaces, designed to engage and inspire young minds. Nature and risk-taking play The Lloyd Park Centre is a fantastic place to learn about our natural environment, take managed risks and have fun too. This connection with nature can foster a sense of respect and care for the environment . The range of sensory experiences help children gain greater physical control of their bodies, and builds resilience, confidence and independence. Our Community The Lloyd Park Centre was developed by local families over 40 years ago and we're proud to be rooted in our community. The centre offers a range of additional services for children and families including a BSL interpretor for deaf children, a community living room, community events and parent SEND support sessions. Community Services Childcare Services Monday - Friday Childcare: 6 months - 4 years, 8am-5.50pm (full and part-time available) Sessional Provision: 3 - 4 years and eligible 2 year olds, 9am-12pm - Term-time only Teatime Club: P rimary age childre n, 8am-5.50pm, pick-up from Wi nns Primary School - Term-time only Holiday Club: P rimary age children, 8am-5.50pm, during school holidays Apply Now Meet the Team Find us Lloyd Park Centre Winns Ave Entrance, Lloyd Park, Walthamstow, E17 5JW 020 8531 9522 lpc@tlpcc.org.uk Open 8am – 5.50pm Monday-Friday Ofsted Ofsted rating - Good We have been rated Good by Ofsted on our last inspection (16th September 2022 ). Read the report here .

Family Support What is Family Support? Our Grow Well family support services offer 1:1 or group support to help you organise your thoughts, make plans and take action to improve life for you and your child. Request Help or Refer Who is it for? For families with children under 5yrs old. Enabling you to access a range of support in the community: Every family faces challenges from time to time. We're here to help you every step of the way! Some examples might include: child development parenting support sleep feeding parent/infant relationships making friends overcoming low mood How is it delivered? You will be signposted to our service or request help yourself One of our team will contact you for an initial assessment You decide on some goals that you'd like to achieve We'll help you achieve these through group sessions, phone check-ins and helping you to access community services (home visits available where appropriate) When you feel as though you've achieved your goals we'll review your progress with you Request Help or Refer

Musical Climbers & Creators A year of exploring music with some wonderful SEND children In 2023/24 we were delighted to bring this wonderful project to life in our Grow Wild adventure play space with the support of Youth Music. This fun and uplifiting session was co-produced by the Lloyd Park Children's Charity's SEND and outdoors play practitioners, parent/carers, children and the amazing music-making charity, Soundcastle. The project delivered unique music-based outdoor learning and sensory experiences for children living with SEND who are often excluded from music-making and outdoors adventure play. Sounds from the Forest Stomp in the Forest 00:00 / 09:06 These beautiful tracks were composed by Soundcastle using vocals, sounds, beats and music made by the children, recorded as they explored the space and made music together. Meditation in the Green Space 00:00 / 09:22 Magical Memories Outdoors music-making in our inspiring 'Grow Wild' adventure playspace Real musical instruments to play led by musicians Freedom for children to play and join in at their own pace Music-making combined with creative play Inclusive music-making for SEND children and their siblings Breakthroughs for SEND children in socialising and personal confidence Building more confidence to jump and tumble with drum beats Children discovered a passion for music-making Parents saw leaps in their children's development Feedback from parents and carers I cannot enthuse about this playgroup/adventure playground and staff more. It is SUCH a supportive environment for not only my son but my daughter too aswell as myself. Staff have gone above and beyond for both my children as they often run in opposite directions and I physically can't keep an eye on both of them! The staff are unfaltering in their care for both the children, this is so important to me as often siblings can sometimes not be so welcomed in my experience which is very difficult for me. The musical element to the session is genuinely magical. At first the musicians would play musical instruments as my children played and slowly but surely my children have actively taken part in playing the musical instruments themselves which they both adore. I feel like my children get so much out of this sen session, they both have gained so much confidence in the setting since coming and both get so excited when they realise we are going to Grow Wild I myself, as their parent, really enjoy coming too! I can never usually relax in other settings as my son can be unpredictable with his behaviour at times, but here I can just breathe and let my children have fun with staff who are always enthusiastic to see them. Thank you so much! We have truly enjoyed our sessions on a Tuesday. My son loves to be outside and to be able to enjoy all the instruments in this free way has been so enriching for him. The musicians are wonderful with the little ones completely working at their pace and direction! Tirelessly playing “train” and offering different instruments and sounds occasionally so he gets a varied experience. All done in a respectful way so he hasn’t felt overwhelmed or too directed. If I had to think of something I’m tempted to say it would be nice to have some more performance group playing from the musicians with flute etc but perhaps that’s more my wanting as the simpler instruments have been generously shared and given access to and the children lead the way!! Thank you all and hope you can keep going …. We will keep coming!! Since we started attending in May my son has made huge progress in his speech, language and communication and these sessions have been a huge part of that. He finds communication challenging and this usually prevents him from interacting with other people. He became very comfortable very quickly at Grow Wild and very quickly started to interact with the musicians and it has been an absolute joy to see. He then repeatedly talks about Grow Wild at home throughout the week so not only is the session beneficial when he's there, but he loves it so much that he wants to talk about it all week, so it's been fantastic for his development at home as well. My daughter has also just started to come out of her shell. She usually only speaks to me but this week she spoke to three different adults at the session too and was much more confident and independent. I also love how safe these sessions are. Being able to run around outside in a safe space with other children and parents who understand his differences is priceless. These sessions are by far the best SEND sessions I have been to in Waltham Forest as they tick so many boxes. A safe outdoor space, access to a wide range of activities like climbing, water play, painting etc. all alongside the musical elements and an energetic, kind and enthusiastic team of adults running the sessions. ....So many of my son's sensory needs are met in one session which helps him to feel calm and regulated throughout the rest of the day. There is something available and beneficial for every child and it's fabulous to see every child enjoying themselves week after week. So thank you so much for everything. I hope that you can secure funding for September as it'll be a huge loss to the SEND community if these sessions were to stop. Both my children have both asked me if they can go to Grow Wild three times today already and this will happen every day until next week 😅 We have a home education journal and at the end of every day, we write down what we've done and my son often likes looking back at the photos of him at Grow Wild and asks for his own musical instruments. Just wanted to say how fantastic the musical element to the play has been and how much both my 19month old and I have enjoyed coming to those special sessions. It has given my son great exposure to music and to different and unique instruments we would not normally come across in our own play. The musicians are all so very talented, professional yet friendly and have a natural ability to connect with the young ones. I feel very fortunate to have attended the sessions we have with you, which have really enhanced my son's learning through song, tune and creativity. This group has been a lifeline to us from the start until now. We attend whatever the weather and my ASD child has thrived and grown from being in such an accepting and accomodating environment. He has gone from a child who was extremely uncomfortable around people, particularly adults, to somebody who seeks out interactions from the Grow Wild and Soundcastle teams. He's changed from being crying and anxious on arrival to shouting "go to see Zoe!" the minute he sees the tree. He has developed a tolerance for other children, for group singing and for music. He has developed so many social skills and even shown a keen interest in making music himself. He gets all of his sensory seeking needs met, has the freedom to explore without any pressure and we are truly fortunate to be able to attend this group. My child has developed and grown into somebody who can be in public without severe discomfort and who actually enjoys the company of other people, and I believe Grow wild has played a massive part in that.....

Fees and Charges Private children's parties and functions Standard Rate £175 per hour (£150 for community room/inside space) Bookings enquiry Optional charitable donations: £50, £75, £100 or other. 100% of this optional donation is invested back into making Grow Wild sustainable for the community. School and nursery hire Minimum hire: 1.5 hour session - 25 children £150 Addtional children charged at £8 per head Maximum capacity - 30 children Additional hours: Each additional hour £150 Addtional children charged at £8 per head per hour Bookings enquiry

Pro Bono Skilled Voluntering: Many businesses and organisations have schemes allowing professionals to donate time to charities for the benefit of the community. Maybe you can donate time through one of these schemes or perhaps you are a self-employed professional allowing you more flexibility. Either way, we'd love to hear your ideas about how you could help us support local children in need with your professional skills and experience. Whether your backgorund is in legal, human rights, safety, finance, business or in eduation, health, menotring or the creative arts; we're always open to new collabortations that will improve life chances for local children. Drop us a line to start a conversation, We look forward to hearing from you! Email our team

See available post from across our charity. We regularlty recruit to positions in childcare, early years learning and developement, family support, and a variety of support roles. Safer Recruitment Overview We follow a 'Safer Recruitment' process and are committed to safeguarding that promotes children’s welfare and wellbeing. We expect all applicants to demonstrate this commitment. Our team receive 'Safe Recruitment' training regularly to ensure that we recruit the most appropriate candidates. All roles within the Lloyd Park Children's Charity are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore subject to an enhanced DBS certificate; this is a requirement of the DBS code of practice. Shortlisted applicants invited for interview are required to complete a written self-disclosure. (This does not affect your statutory rights). Disclosure Information (Required at point of interview) Candidates with be asked to disclose whether or not they have ever: o been known to any Children's Services Department or the Police as being as risk to children? o have ever been the subject of any investigation and/or sanction by any organisation or body due to concerns about your behaviour towards children? o have ever been the subject of disciplinary sanctions or been asked to leave employment or voluntary activity due to inappropriate behaviour towards children? o have any unspent convictions or conditional cautions? o have ever been convicted of an offence overseas? o have been "barred" from working with children? o have any spent adult cautions (simple or conditional) or convictions that are not 'protected' as defined by either: o The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in England, Scotland and Wales Order 2020) o Or the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 as amended in Northern Ireland? We will treat all information with confidentiality and delete information for unsuccessful candidates. Back to Jobs

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Teatime and Holiday Clubs Teatime Club The Lloyd Park and HIgham Hill Centres offer inclusive Teatime Club until 5.50pm Monday to Friday for primary school aged children. The Lloyd Park Centre collects children from Winns Primary School The Higham Hill Centre collects children from Hillyfield on the Hill and Whittingham Primary Schools Apply Here Fees Holiday Club The Lloyd Park and HIgham Hill Centres both offer inclusive holiday clubs for primary school aged children, from 8-5.50pm Monday to Friday during school holidays. See Dates for your Diary page to find out when our holiday schemes run. Bookings for May 2026 Holiday Club open from: 9am, Monday 20th April Apply Here Fees Activities Your child will enjoy a range of activities including arts and crafts, sport, imaginative play, risk taking play and more. Children work together to explore their interests such as creating and performing in talent shows, fundraisers and sports events. There are opportunities to use our Grow Wild adventure play space, and for sporty and messy play, so please dress appropriately. Food Our dedicated catering team prepare our food on-site using fresh ingredients, creating tasty and nutritious meals with an emphasis on providing a wide range of plant-based foods. Meal times are always a sociable and enjoyable part of our day. Our Food