Funding Loop is UK nursery software specialising in early years funding declarations. The first and only dedicated platform built to streamline the funding declaration process for nurseries and childcare providers in England.

Founded in 2017 by a practising nursery owner and a team of senior software engineers with backgrounds in investment banking technology, Funding Loop was built to solve a problem the founders experienced firsthand. Every term, UK nurseries face the same time-consuming process: collecting Parental Declaration forms from parents, checking working parent eligibility codes, and manually entering headcount data into local authority portals. Errors in that process, claiming the wrong number of funded childcare hours or missing a child from the headcount submission, can cost a nursery thousands of pounds per child.

Funding Loop is designed to take the pain out of this funding admin process. It integrates with all major nursery management systems, including Famly, Connect Childcare, Ovivio, Tapestry, Nursery in a Box, Eyworks, and others. Nurseries run a Funding Loop report in their existing system and upload the exported file. From there, Funding Loop sends personalised, pre-filled Parental Declaration forms to parents by email, tracks responses in real time, checks working parent eligibility codes in bulk, and assists with headcount submission to local authority portals. The portal uploader tool works on Capita, Synergy, and Liquid Logic. Please note: Funding Loop is not officially endorsed by, affiliated or in partnership with any Local Authorities.

Funding Loop is not a nursery management system and does not replace one. It is specialist early years funding software that handles the part of the process those systems do not fully automate.

Nearly 3,000 nurseries across England use Funding Loop, from single independent settings to the UK’s largest nursery groups. More than 80% of the UK’s top 25 nursery groups are customers, including Busy Bees, Co-op Childcare, and Kids Planet.

Pricing is simple: £2.50 plus VAT per child, per term. No subscriptions, no setup fees, no exit fees. New customers benefit from a First Term Guarantee, if Funding Loop is not right for your setting, you pay nothing.

To book a no-obligation demo, visit fundingloop.co.uk.