FREE NURSERY PROFITABILITY CHECKER

Busy doesn’t always mean profitable.

Use one typical week to see what each delivered child-hour is earning, what it is costing you, where break-even sits and what may be putting pressure on the result.

Income per delivered hour Cost per delivered hour Break-even view Scenario modeller

YOUR FIGURES

Enter one typical week

Use figures from the same week. The more complete they are, the more useful the result.

Capacity and delivery

How much nursery capacity was actually used?

Registered places Opening hours per place, per week Total child-hours delivered this week Use attended or chargeable child-hours, not your maximum possible capacity.

Weekly income

Enter income attributable to the same week.

Private fee income

Funded income received

Extras / meals / consumables

Other nursery income

Weekly operating costs

Include the main costs required to operate that week.

Staffing including on-costs

Rent / mortgage / property

Food and consumables

Utilities / insurance / software

Other weekly operating costs

Your detailed figures stay in your browser. Enter three details after the calculation to unlock the headline result.

YOUR COMMERCIAL SNAPSHOT

Your nursery is above break-even on the figures entered.

0% margin

Above break-even

Income is higher than the weekly operating costs entered.

Income / delivered hour £0.00

Cost / delivered hour £0.00

Surplus / shortfall per hour £0.00

Weekly surplus / shortfall £0

Delivered-hours occupancy 0%

Staff cost / income 0%

TNB DIAGNOSIS

Your first commercial question

Complete the figures to generate the diagnosis.

Income mix–

Headroom–

BREAK-EVEN VIEW

Complete the figures to calculate break-even.

Current: 0% Break-even: 0%

Illustrative only. Break-even assumes your average income per delivered hour and the weekly costs entered stay unchanged as volume changes.

SCENARIO MODELLER

What changes the result?

Test three simple changes against your current result.

Scenario weekly result £0 No change

Delivered child-hours

Tests more or fewer delivered hours at the current average income per hour.

Private fees

Changes private fee income only. Funded income is left unchanged.

Staffing cost

Tests a change to the weekly staffing cost entered.

Scenario income£0

Scenario cost£0

Scenario margin0%

Sensitivity test, not a forecast. Occupancy changes assume average income per delivered hour and non-staff costs stay unchanged. In practice, staffing and other variable costs may also change.

YOUR NEXT STEP

Know the number. Then find the reason.

The checker gives you a commercial starting point. The next job is understanding what is driving it.

WANT A SECOND PAIR OF EYES?

Send this result to TNB.

Your figures and diagnostic summary will be sent with your enquiry so the conversation starts with the numbers, not from scratch.

WHY THIS MATTERS

Occupancy is useful. Profitability tells you more.

Two nurseries can report the same occupancy and produce very different financial results. The difference sits in the income generated by each delivered hour and the cost of providing it.

Measure the hour

See the average income and operating cost attached to every child-hour delivered.

Find the pressure

See whether the immediate issue appears to be volume, headroom, income mix or the cost base.

Test a change

Model a simple change before deciding what deserves a closer operational review.

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