Providers or the local authority were required to raise 25 per cent of the funding to be eligible and be open by 1 September when the extended entitlement starts.
Of the 189 successful projects, around a quarter will be on school sites. There are 72 new builds. The others are 33 conversions, 52 extensions, 26 refurbishments, and six other types of build.
The Mead Community Primary School in Wiltshire, which is also a teaching school, has been awarded £140,000 to build a nursery to offer 30 30-hour places.
Head of school Emma Holton said, ‘We are absolutely delighted to have been given the opportunity to extend our already outstanding early years provision to include a nursery.
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