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Little Forest Folk Fulham

Ofsted: Good
(Jun 2025)
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4.6(9 parent reviews)
·Fulham Palace House and Gardens, Bishops Avenue, London, SW6 6EA · Hammersmith and Fulham
Number of places
28 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2025
Local authority
Hammersmith and Fulham

About this day nursery

Little Forest Folk Fulham provides an outdoor nursery experience focusing on nature-based learning within a forest setting. Children aged two years and older are immersed in an environment that encourages exploration, creativity, and physical development.

The nursery operates year-round, 51 weeks a year, offering full-day sessions and holiday camps. Meals are provided, with a comprehensive menu covering breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.

The nursery accommodates various government funding schemes, including universal 15-hour and extended 30-hour entitlements for eligible children, stretching the provision across the full year. They actively support parents in navigating funding applications and workplace benefit schemes.

The nursery maintains a strong emphasis on continuous outdoor engagement, providing specialised equipment and a favourable staff-to-child ratio to ensure a rich and safe experience.

Our ethos

Little Forest Folk Fulham focuses on nature-based learning within a forest setting, encouraging exploration, creativity, and physical development through continuous outdoor engagement.

What it's like

Children enjoy attending the forest school, separating easily from parents and carers due to staff familiarity. Staff effectively support learning by developing children's interests, ensuring they feel happy and safe. Children are eager to share their preferences, knowing staff listen and provide engaging activities.

Forest SchoolOutdoor LearningFull Day CareHoliday CampsGovernment Funding Accepted

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
Pricing on request

This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.

Key facts

Food

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and morning and afternoon snacks provided.

Opening hours

8:00am - 6:00pm, 51 weeks per year

Age range

2-7 years old

Term time / All Year

All Year

Session types

Full Day, Holiday Camp

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Forest Folk Fulham

Last inspected 11 June 2025

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

Children enjoy attending the forest school, separating easily from parents and carers due to staff familiarity. Staff effectively support learning by developing children's interests, ensuring they feel happy and safe. Children are eager to share their preferences, knowing staff listen and provide engaging activities.

Inspector highlights

  • Children enjoy attending the forest school and separate easily from parents due to staff familiarity and tailored support.
  • Staff effectively support children's learning by developing their interests and listening to their preferences.
  • Children are well-behaved, learn to respect the environment, and take pride in their time at the forest school.
  • Staff work extremely well together, sharing a child-centred vision and addressing children's interests.
  • Parents report children settle quickly, develop independence and communication skills, and are well-prepared for their next stage of learning.

Areas to develop

  • 1provide children with further opportunities to be independent during mealtimes in the forest
  • 2further develop staff's good interactions with children to consistently maintain focus on supporting children's learning and engagement.
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What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents comment on how their children bring this learning home.

Parents share how their children settle quickly and enjoy attending forest school.

They feel children develop their independence and are good communicators due to the outdoor experience.

Parents explain how older children have quickly settled into forest school and are well prepared for their next stage in learning.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children who require extra help or those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are well supported. Staff work together with parents and other professionals to incorporate support strategies into daily activities. This helps all children to make good progress.

Outdoor space

Children spend most of the day outside. Staff prepare the 'camp' area prior to children arriving on the site. Children recall the rules to leave flowers and plants for everyone to enjoy and watch insects but understand they must be left in their natural environment. Children stay within the area of the rainbow ribbons and are very aware of how to stay safe.

Parent Reviews of Little Forest Folk Fulham

4.6
(9)
Camillia Zahery
6 months ago

Words can’t describe how grateful I am to the entire LFF team for everything. Not only were they always responsive and supportive to us as parents, but they also made us feel like part of the family. Sending my son to the Fulham branch was the best decision I could have made for the start of his school life. Every teacher was so nurturing and helped him grow in every way. He would come home excited to teach me new things about nature, and it was wonderful to see him come out of his shell and find his voice. I especially loved how much time the children spent outdoors — it was perfect for him. I always felt completely confident and comfortable dropping him off, and he would run in happily each day. I can’t thank the team enough for their care, dedication, and for treating him as one of their own.

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Siobhan MCMULLEN
8 months ago

I cannot recommend Little Forest Folk Fulham enough, your little one will love exploring and learning in their campsite. The staff are so gentle, nurturing and caring. My Son has learnt so much from being there, from learning to understand his emotions to honing in on his climbing skills, it’s educational and fun! Don’t be discouraged that they are not learning in a class, they have the same curriculum but it is all based through play in the great outdoors. I feel it helps keep the children calm, regulated and free. My Son is always smiling when I pick him up so that is a golden review in itself xx

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Kay Be
4 months ago

Too many things to list here that is wrong with this nursery. It's good enough for an outdoor nursery experience but the nursery cut far too many corners and hugely under-deliver on every over area of early years care. It's an excellent business model that operates on a scarcity model, extortionate fees and then locks you in for a full term - great for profiteering not so great for families. I wish more outdoor nursery options existed locally that didn't compromise in all the other aspects that are key to quality childcare.

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Richard Blackwell
a year ago

Our son has attended Little Forest Folk Fulham for over a year and he adores his time in the forest. He doesn't look back when dropping him off in the morning and he is always happy (and tired) at the end of the day. It is a great team, always coming up with innovative ways to inspire learning using the environment around them. As parents we really like him spending so much time outdoors learning in nature.

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Mille-Sophie Winge
a year ago

Little Forest Folk is an incredible nursery experience. Our son absolutely adores it and always returns with a big smile on his face. At Little Forest Folk he gets to be a true child and play outside all day, jump in puddles, learn and be interested in nature, and nurture his creativity and curiosity. The staff are excellent at planning magical days for the children, with exciting activities that are not only fun, but also have educational value, be it counting and letters, building an obstacle course, learning about the plants around camp or nurturing social skills/general life skills. All the educators are extremely talented with the children, and their love for their job and being outdoors clearly shines through and rubs off on the children. They always go above and beyond to make the forest a wonderful experience for the children every single day. We really couldn't be happier with Little Forest Folk, and highly recommend it.

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

11 June 2025

Good

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