Free enjoyable and meals for eligible youngsters in the course of the summer season faculty holidays
20 July 2023
The Vacation Actions and Meals programme (HAF) will probably be again this summer season to offer faculty youngsters who obtain benefits-related free faculty meals with a wide range of FREE face-to-face actions to get pleasure from in the course of the faculty holidays.
The programme works collaboratively with colleges, younger folks’s centres, district and borough councils, and exterior suppliers, to help the bodily and psychological wellbeing of college youngsters by diversified and enjoyable actions, in addition to a meal on the day.
Households throughout Nottinghamshire with eligible youngsters ought to have acquired letters with their distinctive HAF code for reserving actions, while some households can even have their letters despatched house by colleges. Mother and father can test if their baby is eligible without spending a dime faculty meals by visiting the County Council’s web site: nottinghamshire.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals
In 2022 the HAF programme reached 12,133 Nottinghamshire main and secondary faculty youngsters throughout spring, summer season, autumn and winter by 138 venues. Youngsters and younger folks took half in a spread of actions, together with bowling, ice skating, climbing, crafts, cooking, sports activities, dance, and journey days.
Youngsters who attended fed again their constructive expertise to the HAF group with 89% saying that they’d enjoyable and 96% wanting to hitch the programme once more in 2023. The fee-free facet was additionally vastly appreciated by mother and father with 100% agreeing that HAF has helped them with the cost-of-living will increase.
Natalie, father or mother to a toddler who took half within the spring HAF programme, mentioned:
“I might undoubtedly suggest HAF, it’s excellent for youngsters’s social expertise. My daughter loves it right here. All the brand new expertise that she’s studying are nice”.
Clare Harding, Head Trainer at Asquith Major faculty, mentioned:
“There’s a complete bunch of the reason why HAF is so necessary. It’s someplace youngsters can go that’s protected, they will socialise, they will get pleasure from themselves and the place they will maintain match and assist develop wholesome life. Having the ability to come to an exercise the place meals is offered the place they’re with their buddies simply offers youngsters a way of self-worth and vanity”.
Councillor Tracey Taylor, Cupboard Member for Youngsters and Households, mentioned:
“It’s unimaginable to see that the work delivered to date for youngsters and households as a part of the Vacation Actions and Meals programme has been so well-received and had such a constructive and impactful impact on households in Nottinghamshire.
“The HAF exercise classes are a beautiful alternative for varsity youngsters to socialize in a protected place and revel in a wide range of enjoyable and fascinating actions. I might encourage mother and father to seek out out if their baby is eligible on the Nottinghamshire County Council web site and signal as much as the actions with their distinctive HAF code”.
You will discover eligibility standards and register without spending a dime faculty meals on Nottinghamshire County Council’s web site:
nottinghamshire.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals
Discover out extra concerning the Vacation Actions and Meals programme for Nottinghamshire:
nottinghamshire.gov.uk/hafprogramme