Free enjoyable and meals for eligible youngsters through the summer time faculty holidays
20 July 2023
The Vacation Actions and Meals programme (HAF) can be again this summer time 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 through the faculty holidays.
The programme works collaboratively with faculties, 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 will even have their letters despatched house by faculties. Dad and mom can verify if their little one is eligible without cost 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 time, autumn and winter by 138 venues. Kids and younger folks took half in a spread of actions, together with bowling, ice skating, climbing, crafts, cooking, sports activities, dance, and journey days.
Kids who attended fed again their optimistic 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 significantly appreciated by mother and father with 100% agreeing that HAF has helped them with the cost-of-living will increase.
Natalie, guardian to a toddler who took half within the spring HAF programme, mentioned:
“I’d undoubtedly suggest HAF, it’s excellent for kids’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 Main faculty, mentioned:
“There’s a complete bunch of the explanation why HAF is so essential. It’s someplace youngsters can go that’s secure, they’ll socialise, they’ll get pleasure from themselves and the place they’ll maintain match and assist develop wholesome life. With the ability to come to an exercise the place meals is supplied the place they’re with their mates simply provides youngsters a way of self-worth and vanity”.
Councillor Tracey Taylor, Cupboard Member for Kids and Households, mentioned:
“It’s unimaginable to see that the work delivered up to now for kids and households as a part of the Vacation Actions and Meals programme has been so well-received and had such a optimistic and impactful impact on households in Nottinghamshire.
“The HAF exercise periods are an exquisite alternative for varsity youngsters to socialize in a secure place and luxuriate in a wide range of enjoyable and interesting actions. I’d encourage mother and father to search out out if their little one is eligible on the Nottinghamshire County Council web site and signal as much as the actions with their distinctive HAF code”.
You’ll find eligibility standards and register without cost faculty meals on Nottinghamshire County Council’s web site:
nottinghamshire.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals
Discover out extra in regards to the Vacation Actions and Meals programme for Nottinghamshire:
nottinghamshire.gov.uk/hafprogramme
