Little Forest Folk Wimbledon Village

Tree climbing, den building and lunch in the forest give Little Forest Folk Wimbledon Village its character. Wimbledon Common supplies the outdoor setting, with Springwell Camp as its base; the indoor premises at Wimbledon Common Golf Club provide space for meals and play. This is a nursery for families who want nature to shape the day, rather than an occasional outdoor activity.

At its January 2026 inspection, Ofsted judged behaviour, attitudes and routines and children's welfare and wellbeing to be Strong standard, with achievement, curriculum and teaching, inclusion, and leadership and governance at Expected standard. Those area judgements give a more useful picture than a single headline: care and routines were the stronger areas, while consistency in adapting teaching to individual children needed further development.

There are 20 places in total, and children can join after their second birthday. All-year-round full days run alongside school-holiday camps, making the nursery relevant both to families seeking regular attendance and those considering holiday childcare.

Learning and Activities

The EYFS provides the framework for children's learning, development and care, encompassing the skills they build through play, conversation and physical activity. Here, forest nursery activities add outdoor experiences, supported by specialist tools and equipment. The setting matters: children climb trees and construct dens on Wimbledon Common, making movement and exploration part of their everyday learning.

Most of the nursery day takes place on the Common from Springwell Camp, with indoor play, breakfast and dinner at the Golf Club.

Afternoon snack doubles as a conversation about the day's experiences. Children discuss what interested them and what they learned, and those exchanges inform the next day's activities and resources. Their ideas have a practical consequence. Children's interests help shape subsequent activities.

In January 2026, conversation was deliberately taught: staff introduced vocabulary and allowed children time to think before answering. Counting and exploring quantities also formed part of learning. Physical experiences therefore sat alongside language and mathematics, rather than replacing them.

Children could request more time at an activity or another opportunity to try it in January 2026. That gave them scope to practise, while staff identified next steps to guide subsequent learning. The improvement priority concerned how consistently those individual adaptations were carried through across the curriculum, including how practitioners shared strategies with one another.

Outdoor and Community Life

Climbing and minibeast exploration give children ways to investigate the Common. Lunch and both snacks take place in the forest too, extending outdoor time beyond activities.

In January 2026, children practised choosing clothing suitable for the weather and changing their outfits independently. Staff also devised balance and core-strength activities for children whose walking and running were still developing. These are concrete examples of independence being taught through the demands of the day.

Safety routines were part of those experiences in January 2026. Children helped devise rules, learned to recognise forest hazards and practised how to respond to dog walkers. For a parent weighing outdoor childcare, the useful detail is the connection between exploration and explicitly taught boundaries.

Relationships and Communication

In January 2026, children shared their achievements with practitioners and turned to them for comfort. Staff discussed ways to tackle difficult tasks, including safe approaches to climbing equipment. The relationship supported both reassurance and another attempt.

Settling arrangements were flexible in January 2026, with opportunities for parents to explain what their child needed. Communication also helped families continue learning at home. That makes settling a discussion about the individual child, rather than only an administrative start date.

Children's views fed into routines too. In January 2026, practitioners used actions to reinforce expectations for children facing barriers to learning and involved children when routines needed to change. The examples connect behaviour with understanding: children were helped to grasp the reason for an expectation and contribute to how it worked.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

At the January 2026 inspection, Ofsted found safeguarding standards met and identified support mechanisms including individual plans, external advice, adapted equipment access and sign-language training, while judging inclusion at Expected standard. For families with additional needs, those mechanisms provide specific subjects to explore, rather than a blanket promise about suitability.

Sleep and physical care were considered individually in January 2026. Leaders incorporated safe sleeping arrangements for toddlers and adjusted risky-play policies to children's developmental stages. Practitioners also taught children to drink regularly and understand how food supports an active day.

Two Teaspoons Cookery supplies the food: breakfast and dinner are eaten at the Golf Club, with lunch and both snacks in the forest. These meals and snacks are included in private full-day sessions; during funded hours, food is separately charged under the voluntary extras arrangements.

Sessions and Attendance

The indoor base is at Wimbledon Common Golf Club, Heston Court Business Centre, 19 Camp Road, London, SW19 4UW. The forest meeting point is Springwell car park, Sunset Road, SW19 4UR.

Full-day sessions run from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, across 51 weeks of the year. Regular nursery attendance requires at least two days each week. Closures include a week over Christmas, bank holidays and scheduled staff training days, so the all-year-round pattern still needs those breaks built into family plans.

Holiday camps also run from 8am to 6pm during school holidays and are paid for in advance when booked online. They are a separate attendance pattern from a regular nursery place. Enrolment enquiries and waiting-list sign-up use the Wimbledon Village enquiry route; general and holiday-camp enquiries can be sent to info@littleforestfolk.com.

Getting There

Parking opposite the Golf Club is for collecting and dropping off children, rather than leaving a car throughout the day. The outdoor meeting address is Springwell car park, giving families a different location to use when meeting the group in the forest.

Funding and Paid Extras

The nursery offers the 15 hours Universal entitlement and the 30 hour Working Parent Entitlement, subject to the relevant eligibility conditions. Both are stretched across 51 weeks: the stated weekly funded allocations are 11.18 hours and 22.35 hours respectively, rather than the term-time headline totals.

Funded sessions run from 10.33am to 2.16pm and from 2.16pm to 6pm. Hours outside the funded allocation are charged separately. Accessing the full stretched working-parent entitlement requires a schedule of three full days across the year; children attending two days can use a maximum stretched allocation of 14.9 funded hours each week.

During funded hours, food and snacks, non-food consumables such as nappies, wipes and protective creams, and additional forest nursery activities are charged separately as voluntary extras. Families can request the arrangements for opting out of those categories. The extra activities charge covers forest nursery activities beyond EYFS delivery, including specialist equipment and tools.

Private full-day meals and snacks are included in the session fee. Current prices come in the nursery's written quotation, and the Wimbledon Village fees page sets out the attendance and funding structure. Monthly full-day invoices spread the annual attendance cost into averaged payments, which helps explain why billing follows the year-round schedule.

• Teaching consistency. January 2026's improvement priority was more consistent curriculum implementation and adaptation for individual children. At a visit, ask how practitioners share a child's learning strategies and carry them through different activities.
• A forest-led day. Most of the day takes place on Wimbledon Common, including lunch and snacks. A visit is the opportunity to discuss your child's comfort with outdoor routines and see how the indoor base fits around them.
• Funding and attendance. The minimum regular booking is two days, but the full stretched working-parent entitlement requires three full days. Compare the proposed timetable and voluntary extras together when assessing the family budget.

Little Forest Folk Wimbledon Village suits families who want regular all-year-round full days shaped by outdoor exploration, and those considering separate school-holiday camps. Springwell Camp, tree climbing and forest meals give the offer a clear identity; the Golf Club supplies an indoor base around that outdoor day.

The January 2026 picture combines stronger care and routines with a clear teaching priority: making individual adaptations more consistent. That balance deserves attention. For a family comfortable with the forest-led routine, the decision turns on the child's daily experience and whether the attendance and funding structure fit the household.