Falling back in love with film....but on a budget

I finally got out to shoot with the Yashica 635 I got for Christmas last year. I absolutely loved shooting (for the first time in about 30 years) with it and would love to shoot more but unfortunately at the moment my finances are very limited. Currently it's looking like it's going to work out around £25 per roll for film, developing and scanning. I am thinking of setting myself up to develop my own film (B&W) to save money but I could use some recommendations for a decent but affordable scanner. I have a Nikon D750 and Z6 which are both 24mp, I also have an M1 Macbook Pro14. Any asvice would be greatly appreciated.

The cheapest thing you can probably do is use your phone and a small light box off ebay. I've found over the years like digital most of my shots aren't worth enlarging whatsoever. While you start on this journey, I'd simply use a tripod phone and scan them with an app and a light box. Any really good ones you can always have scanned somewhere else and the phone scans will be fine for sharing/online

Once you know you want to stick to it, you can start thinking about a more dedicated scanning solution, where are you based? You can bring those initial costs down if you shop around online. Off brick lane in London I can get 120 dev and scan c41 for £5, the scans are trash for anything but mobile and ensuring I want to make them larger but that's all I need.

Good luck

Filmdev do dev and small scan B&W for £6, plus £2 for 2nd class return of negs. Analogue Wonderland have Kentmere/Fomapan B&W 120 film at £6.50-£7 a roll, so basic costs should be around £15/roll for oil, dev and scan going that way, and you could well find cheaper film sources.

Filmdev prices are £9 small scan for B & W. It's £6 for colour C41. If you get the XP2 Ilford black and white C41 colour process film then it can work out cheaper than trad black and white.

Postage is the killer as it's more or less £4 to send anything and £2 to get it back as a minimum.

Thanks for correcting me Suz, I looked at the wrong side of their list.
Quiter right about postage too.
AG Labs do the whole thing for £12.99 all postage included (sending and receiving).

Thanks all for the suggestions. I'll have a look at the recommended companies.

As above, but I'd use one of the Nikons to "scan" your negs. It can work well if you get a plastic tube to place over the light stage and point the lens down it so you get less reflections. This is more or less what the Valio (or whatever it's called) does. I use a cheap LED artist tracing light box with a sheet of Perspex over the top (the light box has a pattern if you don't diffuse it). A copy stand helps a lot but is not absolutely required.

If your camera lenses don’t focus close enough used extension tubes can be found cheaply on eBay.