The Department for Education (DfE) is providing funding to local authorities to coordinate a programme that provides healthy food and enriching activities to eligible children during the 2023 Spring, Summer and Winter school holidays. This is known as the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme.
Around 7,000 children across Swindon will be eligible for free holiday provision over these periods.
Children who take up a place at a free holiday club will have the opportunity to:
- eat more healthily over the school holidays, with a meal provided at each session
- be more active, by being involved in physical activities and a range of engaging and enriching activities to develop resilience, character and wellbeing
- be safe and not socially isolated over holiday periods
- most importantly, have fun with friends
The programme will grow over the summer so a wider offer is available to families to access during this holiday period.
Eligibility
School aged children from any of the following categories are eligible to access the programme:
- Children in receipt of benefits related free school meals
- Children in need (must have a social worker working with the child)
- Child protection
- Young carers
Free Funded places available for ATBShop’s summer camp and Holiday club.
ATBShop is back running a summer camp and holiday club for 2024 at a new venue! We are going to be based out of St Luke’s school- Sports Wing.
We shall be offering
- Scooting and skateboarding
- Bring your roller skates and in lines for our skate circuit.
- A chance to have a bounce around on the inflatables
- Play games in our sports fields
- Basketball in our sports hall
- Battle it out with Nerf Guns
- Long board fun runs
- Get arty with our arts and crafts tent
- Peddle a smoothie on our smoothie bike
- Make pizzas in our food work shop
- Play with Tech Deck skateboards
- Challenge your friends to ping pong
- And sooo much more!!!
If you are entitled to HAF credits then your place or places will be paid for thanks to Swindon Borough Council. Please check your emails for a link or your school if you’ve not received one yet.
Not too sure if you’re eligible? Check out here:
https://www.swindon.gov.uk
If you do not qualify you can still buy a space/places over the summer. The booking for HAF is open now but our booking page will be open this week.
www.atbshop.co.uk/holidayclub
Places at our club start from as little as £10
For more info call 01793 523255 or email sales@atbshop.co.uk
SEND children welcome
