About Halo Benefits
How workplace childcare finally gets done properly.
A tax rule that's existed for over twenty years. A benefit that helps a typical family keep more of what they earn. Infrastructure nobody built, until now.
The problem
Nursery fees have become the defining expense of a young family's decade.
Full-time nursery for a one-year-old can run over £1,400 a month in the UK.[1]That's not a budget line — it shapes where people live, whether they go back to work, and how long they wait for a second child.
The law already has a fix. The workplace nursery exemption lets employers help pay nursery fees from pre-tax salary, helping a typical family keep £3,000 to £8,000 a year.*
It's not a scheme, not a trick, not a loophole — it's the rule. Almost no one uses it. The administrative burden has historically been enough to put employers off, and without employer participation the rule does nothing.
*Indicative. This is not tax advice. Actual savings depend on your circumstances, employer participation, and nursery costs.
[1] Coram Family & Childcare, UK Childcare Survey 2025.
The fix
We built the platform that was missing.
Halo Benefits is three products working together.
A nursery-finding experience for parents
That feels like the consumer apps they already use. Search, map, visits, comparisons, enquiries. Every registered nursery is searchable, and an enquiry takes two minutes.
A workplace nursery benefit for employers
That handles the demanding bits. Policy written and signed, payroll connected, a single sign-off from finance is all the employer ever does. Cost-neutral to run.
An operations tool and demand channel for nurseries
Their page on Halo is already built — imported from the public register. Claim it in two minutes, get a mobile dashboard for enquiries, children, capacity and Halo remittances, and receive employer-funded families who've chosen you through our search. No listing fees, no commissions. Free forever.
Who we are
A group of parents who found a real problem and set about fixing it.
We built Halo to help working families. Building it needed a team with experience across tech, finance, and marketing — and parents who know the problem first-hand. We have all four.
Talk to us.
Whether you're a parent, an employer, or a nursery — we'd love to hear from you.
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