The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme provides healthy meals, enriching activities, and free childcare places to children from low-income families, benefiting their health, wellbeing and learning.

The programme runs during the Winter, Easter and Summer School holidays and entitles eligible individuals to a range of different activities. Each activity will include a meal, a minimum of 60 …

• Developed in consultation with providers in 2021, the Good Food for the Holidays toolkit is designed to support delivery organisations for the HAF programme in the provision of healthy, delicious meals …

What is the Holiday Activities and Food Programme? The Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme is an inclusive programme open to all eligible children aged 5-16.

The purpose of the grant is for local authorities to make free places at holiday clubs available in the Easter, summer and Christmas school holidays in 2025. This will be made available to...

In 2024, the HAF programme enabled support to be provided to hundreds of thousands of children and their families nationally through the Easter, summer, and Christmas school holidays.

Here are some of the fantastic examples of the activities delivered by Gateshead Council’s “Brighten the Day” Holiday Activities and Food programme which ran from Monday 20th July to Friday 4th …