Applications are now open!
Halton Borough Council are happy to announce that applications for the Halton Christmas School Holiday activity and food provision activities, are now live! Please see link below.
They would like to work together with a diverse range of children and young people’s providers, to offer positive activities and free lunches to our children and young people in Halton, who are in need. The HAF (Holiday Activity with Food Programme) provided through funding from the Department For Education.
They expect that all participating children and young people are 4-16 years of age, should benefit from a week of support which covers a maximum of 4 days over the 2 week Christmas holiday period and consist of 4 hours of face to face provision a day.
Are you able to offer the following?
- Physical activity – Minimum of 2 hours Physical activity each day. This can include a range of activities from forest school, outdoor adventure activities, as well as multi sports such as football, dance etc.
- Enrichment/Wellbeing activity – Arts and crafts, musical activities or, drama etc.
- Nutritious meal - A meal that meets school food standards must be included as part of the offer – This will either be supplied by a number of private sector organisations
- Nutritional Education – This does not need to be formal, it could be as simple as trying new foods, growing vegetables, understanding how to read food labels, having conversations around the amount of sugar in foods.
Please click on the link below to submit your application. The deadline for applications is Friday 7th October 2022 and they will be in touch to confirm the outcome of your application.
https://halton.me/haf-application-form/
For further information contact John Bucknall at john.bucknall@halton.gov.uk