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To think this Gym & Nursery are being unreasonable?

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JustDontGetItAtAll · 16/08/2017 20:28

I just posted the following on a thread about David Lloyd Gyms and I'd really like some opinions please?
Our local Gym just turned into a David Lloyd and my daughter was attending the Nursery there before the takeover. She received 15 funded hours due to my disability.
Now that David Lloyd have taken over, they're saying I have to have a FULL £120 membership in order to attend the Nursery! Even though I am Disabled and unable to use any of their facilities....!!
My daughter loves It there and all the other Nurseries are full. Absolutely gutted as I can't afford it.
Am I being unreasonable to think that they should either have a separate entrance to the Nursery if they're going to operate as an actual fully-functioning Nursery, rather than just a Crèche? Or that they could/should allow me to or somehow develop a way for me to drop off & pick up my DD and enable her to just do her last term at Nursery before she starts Pre-School in January? It's very clear I am not going to be sneaking upstairs to the Treadmills or Yoga Classes! I can barely walk!
At the end of the day, I was never made aware that they require full membership for children to attend the Nursery as I was on a trial when she joined the Nursery and I guess they just 'assumed' I was a member! Now that she is fully settled and loves it there, is be devastated to pull her out. Not only because she loves it (she has a few minor issues), but also she is starting Pre-School in Feb. So she'd have to start a different nursery then change again in February. (She cannot start Pre-School earlier as they only take 3yr olds).

Please be kind. After all I am asking if I'm being unreasonable, not saying that I am not!!

Thanks

OP posts:
Bringmewineandcake · 16/08/2017 21:09

Could you see it as paying £120 for your nursery care? You don't say if that's per month or per year, but it would seem good value to keep your DD in a setting she loves rather than move her now.

Tanaqui · 16/08/2017 21:10

So you were at the nursery before David Lloyd took over? And it was fine then, but you didn't realise that the t and c would change when dl took over? They should definitely have let you know it had changed.

sparechange · 16/08/2017 21:11

bring
It is a David Lloyd - it is definitely per month!

Invisimamma · 16/08/2017 21:12

Yabu. It's a nursery for gym members, you're not a member of the gym, therefor you can't use the nursery.

Perhaps they should have communicated this better to you when you signed up and it is unfortunate you'll need to settle your child elsewhere, but you really should have checked the terms and conditions.

ChinkChink · 16/08/2017 21:15

Is it one of the David Lloyd Asquith nurseries? If so, they say on their website:

Find childcare at a David Lloyd club

The nurseries we operate at the David Lloyd centres offer the same stimulating and caring childcare environment that all Asquith day nurseries & pre-schools pride themselves on, and parents don't need to be members of the David Lloyd club to register their child.

Buck3t · 16/08/2017 21:15

Our DL has a nursery attached, run by busybees nurseries last time I looked, could be Asquith thinking about it. Don't think you have to be a member and shares the same entrance.

We also have a hairdresser and beauty salon. You have to go through the member gates and you don't have to be a member. Different club different rules.

Buck3t · 16/08/2017 21:16

We also have great facilities for disabled members

Viviennemary · 16/08/2017 21:19

I expect it depends on the contract. I expect David Lloyd would have to honour any contract you had previously until your membership expired. But it sounds like you were never a member of the original gym when your trial period expired but the gym either didn't notice this or let you carry on anyway. I don't think it's unreasonable of David Lloyd to say nursery users must be gym members. But I appreciate it must be annoying for you.

drspouse · 16/08/2017 21:19

We also have a nursery and gym attached (different gym company). They are totally separate and nobody has to join the gym to use the nursery. You can also use creche sessions while you are in the gym. I thought this was normal and YADNBU.

Vitotitto · 16/08/2017 21:20

@ChinkChink first helpful comment I guess Grin

sixinthebedandthelittleonesaid · 16/08/2017 21:24

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Bringmewineandcake · 16/08/2017 21:24

Thanks sparechange
Seems reasonable for 15 hours a week to me! I pay something in the region of £420 p/m for DD2 to go for 20 hours a week at her nursery. I'd love it if that included gym membership!

Mehfruittea · 16/08/2017 21:25

I'm pretty sure I never filled in a form for 15 hrs funded care. Nursery applied to LA on our behalf and LA sent letter confirmation it was granted.

I have been a member of DL, in a wheelchair and still had to pay my full fee when the lift to the gym floor was broken for 5 weeks. They have me BS it wasn't broken the whole time, but every time I went in that period it was. They don't care if you can use the facilities or not. You still have to pay.

drspouse · 16/08/2017 21:36

I got 15 hours for my DD, think I just showed her BC.

mickeysminnie · 16/08/2017 21:45

Drspouse did you get the 15 hours because of your disability?

Sweetpotatoaddict · 16/08/2017 21:45

Asquith has recently been taken over by bright horizons. If they are making it policy you have to be a dl member they certainly haven't made it a universal policy in all nurseries attached to DL clubs.

LittleOwl153 · 16/08/2017 21:50

If you are getting the 2 year old council funding (as opposed to a specialist placement because of your disability) then the nursery are not allowed to charge anything in addition to access the hours. I would think that the council would have something to say if they kicked your daughter out at this point.
Difficult one if you should have been a member to register her to begin with, but depending on how lo g she has been there I would have thought you could argue the case. It is likely that such facilities will try to get you to take on other services at the nursery element is apparently underfunded, but check out with your council or whoever is funding it tomsee ahat they say.

leccybill · 16/08/2017 21:55

I looked around an Asquith nursery attached to a DL as it was next to my work. You did not have to be a member of the gym. I also use the hair and beauty salon there, again I'm not a member of the gym.

If there has been a recent takeover and t&cs have changed, there should be a grace period.

The trial thing is irrelevant. I use gym trials all the time, most summers to blitz it for a fortnight before I go on holiday. Know loads who do the same.

drspouse · 16/08/2017 21:57

mickey no, she's adopted (so it was actually her adoption certificate)

mickeysminnie · 16/08/2017 22:00

My point being did you get the 2 year old funding for 15 hours that everyone is entitled to or did you get 15 as the op maintains because of her disability. I doubt you could access 15 hours childcare on the basis of a disability without having to complete a form and 'proof' of your disability?

drspouse · 16/08/2017 22:06

Two year funding.

dimples76 · 16/08/2017 22:28

I would contact the Council Early Years team for advice/ post adoption support. It is obviously especially important that your daughter is not made to have multiple moves.

Good luck in sorting this out

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