Free nursery business tool
See what a decision
does to the numbers.
Try a change in an example nursery. Compare income, costs and cash before you apply it to your own business.
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What would you like to test?
Fill quieter days.
See whether extra preschool bookings improve the operating result.
Full-day bookings, repeated across 50 operating weeks.
Change in annual operating result
Extra income covers the additional costs in this example.
Operating result before tax, depreciation and finance costs.Before and after
Example nursery · 12 months| Measure | Starting example | After the change | Difference |
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See the assumptions behind this example
All figures are made up. The nursery has three rooms, 50 operating weeks and a 10.5-hour booked day. The model includes a September preschool reduction. It does not include tax or capital purchases. Staffing is a deployment illustration, not a compliance check.
Check the real business before changing it.
Add a question to your brief or enquiry
One defined issue? See the £225 review. Several connected issues? See the £795 Health Check. Scope and any applicable VAT are agreed before you commit.
Open the full model to enter room bookings, fees, staffing costs and cash assumptions.
This is a calculation example, not an assessment of your nursery or a forecast. Explanations come from the model’s calculations; no live AI is connected.
TNB Nursery Decision Room
Use your own figures.
Test the decision.
Explore a working nursery model. Change the bookings, fees or staffing assumptions, then follow the effect through the rooms and the bank balance.
Free illustrative planning tool. No client data. Your figures stay in this browser until you choose to download or share a brief.
Select a room to edit its starting figures. The bars show booked places as a share of room capacity.
Your starting position
Inside the preschool room.
Enter full-day booked places, not the number of children on roll. These are the starting bookings before the scenario changes.
Change one thing
Test the decision.
Bookings, private fees and funded share apply to Preschool. Staff cost changes apply to every room. Your starting figures stay visible above.
Extra bookings are limited to room capacity. The model uses only the places that fit.
Funded share is limited to 0-100%. The model uses the nearest valid share.
More booked places are not evidence of demand. The staffing illustration costs each deployed person for the full day entered.
Follow the consequence
Understand what moved.
Explanations are generated from this model’s calculations and stated assumptions. They are not a live AI conversation or a review by Dominic.
See the year, not just the month
Follow the cash.
Income collection timing and entered loan payments are included. Tax and capital purchases are excluded.
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Behind the numbers
Set the operating assumptions.
Each month uses one twelfth of operating weeks. The September reduction applies to preschool bookings; recovery applies in October, November and December. January returns to the entered starting bookings. This is an editable illustration, not a predicted booking profile.
Leave with a clearer question
Take the decision into the real business.
Your brief records the inputs, starting position, scenario and monthly results. Use it to discuss the assumptions with your manager, accountant or TNB.
A £225 Single-Issue Review suits one defined question. A £795 Health Check suits several connected issues. See the scope and fees. Any applicable VAT is confirmed before you agree the work.
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How this model works, and what to check before acting
- All starting figures are made-up examples, not TNB client data, market averages, a forecast or a valuation. Full-day equivalent bookings are repeated across the entered operating weeks.
- Room contribution is income less that room’s deployed staff and variable costs. Management and fixed costs are deducted at nursery level. Operating result is before tax, depreciation, financing costs and capital purchases. Loan payments affect the cash view only; the interest/principal split is not modelled.
- Private daily fees are divided by the booked day length to price non-funded hours on funded days. Confirm your actual session tariffs, annual entitlement, local authority rate, funded hours and payment dates. Additional private hours are assumed to be booked and paid. Compulsory funded-hours top-ups are not assumed.
- The room deployment illustration rounds staff up at 1:3 for babies, 1:5 for two-year-olds and the selected preschool assumption. Minimum teams are your planning choice. Zero bookings closes that room in the model. The entered hourly cost must include paid breaks, cover, leave and on-costs.
- England’s EYFS ratios apply across the whole provision and depend on qualifications and other conditions. A 1:13 preschool assumption needs the relevant qualified teacher conditions. This tool neither checks those conditions nor certifies compliance. Safe staffing, children’s needs, the named rota and qualifications require separate review. Read the current EYFS framework.
- Cash assumes operating costs and the loan payment are paid in the month shown. A one-month income delay uses the opening receipts entered for the first month. Tax, capital expenditure, bad debts, discounts and other working capital movements are excluded.
- There is no automatic saving or sending of financial inputs. Downloads stay on your device. Choosing to discuss your decision passes a brief to the contact form in this browser; you review it before sending.