Decision details

The Holiday Activities and Food programme provides support to school-aged children in receipt of free school meals through school holiday periods. The Department of Education allocates funds to local authorities to commission providers to delivery enriching activities and healthy meals. This funding is for the Easter, Summer, and Christmas school holidays, with each child being entitled to four hours for four days for each week of that school holiday.

This holiday provision is for children who receive benefits-related free school meals. The free holiday club places must be targeted at children who are eligible for and receiving benefits-related free school meals.
As a result of this programme, we want children who attend provision to:
• eat more healthily over the school holidays
• be more active during the school holidays
• take part in engaging and enriching activities which support the development of resilience, character, and wellbeing along with their wider educational attainment
• be safe and not to be socially isolated
• have a greater knowledge of health and nutrition
• be more engaged with school and other local services

We also want to ensure that the families who participate in this programme:
• develop their understanding of nutrition and food budgeting
• are signposted towards other information and support, for example, health, employment and education

Free places available to children eligible for free school meals for the equivalent of at least four hours a day, four days a week, for one week over the Easter holidays.
Provision is to be aimed at all school age children 4-16 years old. Consideration will be given to flexibilities in how the programme can be delivered to older children or delivered in areas with greater need.

Decisions were made to ensure there is a range of activities across the city. Data mapping was completed, and then the panel prioritised wards with the highest numbers of free school meal eligibility. It was also important to provide a range by age (primary versus secondary), SEND needs, along with an array of activities (sports, arts, drama, etc).

Providers were not considered if they have not submitted all previous reporting data as requested and outlined in their grant agreement.

In total, 28 applications for funding were received. The total amount applied for was £174,810. Not all applications fully met the criteria, and some awards were reduced/modified in line with the criteria set and £122,684 is the total to be awarded spread across a total of 23 projects.

The Director of Customer and Communities approves the use of external funding to support the delivery of the Holiday Activities and Food programme in York in accordance with the attached report and grant application programme.

The awards are as follows:

To approve the following grants:
Organisation Final Amount Approved
Door 84 £4,010
Dringhouses Out of School Club £1,410
Explore York Libraries £3,135
First Step Sports £4,000
Flying Ducks Trampoline Club £3,714
Funfishers Out of School Club £4,800
HealthyMe £4,250
Ignite Sports £8,000
New Visuality £8,150
North Yorkshire Youth £1,500
Premier Education £9,704
Sivik Active £2,576
Snappy Trust £7,500
Spokey Dokey Badge Club £3,587
St Nicks £1,995
Teamworks Karting £10,000
The Place £3,246
Total Sports £8,000
United Education at Energise £6,720
United Education at Tang Hall Primary £4,200
United Education at The Mount School £6,720
YCFC Foundation £5,556
York RLFC Foundation £9,911

Approve, reject or partially approve the applications.

All options were utilised in the decision making.