About Halo Benefits
Halo is how workplace childcare finally gets done properly.
A tax rule that's existed for twenty years. A benefit that saves a typical family thousands a year. 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 — that's a second mortgage. 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 pay nursery fees before tax, saving a typical family £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. Actual savings depend on your circumstances, employer participation, and nursery costs. Not tax advice.
[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. Enquiry takes two minutes.
A workplace nursery benefit for employers
That handles the challenging 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.
Why now
We have the right mix.
Building Halo needed a team with experience across tech, finance, and marketing — and parents who know the problem first-hand. We have all four.